It is not my time to speak. I am not black, nor will I ever understand what People of Colour go through every day. Today is not the day to share my thoughts, but I will share some of the resources that I have read or watched, either in the past or recently, as well as some of the books and media that I have on my list to consume soon.
Don’t ask people of colour to do the work for you, they have done it enough. Do the work for yourself.
Movies/TV Series
The Hate You Give (also a book)
Just Mercy (also a book)
Articles
The Death of George Floyd, in Context
Of Course There are Protests, The State is Failing Black People
Books
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Teens and Children’s Books
This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
March (3 Book Graphic Novel Series) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Long Way Down by Jason Renolds
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
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