These resources are collected from a number of lists and sources online. They are run the gamut from articles and websites to books and syllabi. Pull requests welcome, or start an issue to leave suggestion.
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
- Black Anarchism: A Reader | The Anarchist Library
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
- Understanding racism and inequality in America Washington Post
- We Need an Academic New Deal The Nation
- How White Supremacy turned Asian and Black Communities Against Each Other Next Shark
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
- 13th | by Ava DuVernay (1:40:02)
- Difficult Knowledge, Trauma Informed Pedagogy and Safe-ish Spaces (UC Berkeley)
- Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (Teaching Tolerance)
- Zinn Education Project Teaching Materials (Zinn Education Project)
- The Decolonizing Design Reader
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom(by bell hooks)
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed(by Paulo Freire)
- Tech and Media Art – Decolonize the Syllabus
- Decolonizing Games Reader
- UCLA EDI “Acknowledging the Current Racial Crisis in the Classroom”
- Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
- Staff and Faculty Counseling Center
- UCLA Student Legal Services
- UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Demand justice for black lives by signing petitions online. A good place to start is here.
- Digital Resources for a Movement Against Police Violence
- Email your representatives, senators, mayor, and city council members and demand justice and reform.
- https://peoplesbudgetla.com/
- http://tinyurl.com/defundLAPDasap
- Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Ways To Help
- Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
- People’s City Council Freedom Fund & Black Lives Matter LA
- LA Action Bail Fund (BLMLA’s partner for LA bail donations, 100% of donations go to the fund
- People’s City Council Freedom Fund
- Black Visions Collective
- Trans Justice Funding Project
- NationalResourcesList
- Summaeverythang Community Center
- Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
- Black Artist Party
- Gender Justice LA