Self-help Resources
LEGAL RESOURCES
UNDERSTANDING THE LAW, LEGAL PROTOCOL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE LONG BEEN SUBJECT TO THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND VERY SELDOM TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- www.eji.org
- http://blackyouthproject.com/know-your-rights/
BLACK MONEY
BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BARTERED OUR LIVES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OTHERS. LET’S LEARN THE SYSTEM TO GROW OUR OWN WEALTH.
- TheBlackBusinessSchool.com
- Entrepeneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics. John Silbley Butler
BLACK HEALTH
WELLNESS IS NOT JUST FOR SOME. WELLNESS IS FOR ALL – AND BLACK FOLK DESERVE HEALTHY LIVES TOO.
IDENTITY
UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’VE BEEN, YOU WON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING. BEING BLACK IS MORE THAN A SKIN COLOR AND THE RICHNESS THAT IS BLACK PEOPLE COMES IDENTIFYING UNAPOLOGETICALLY
- www.racepride.pitt.edu
- www.cswac.org
- Being Black. Angel Kyodo Williams
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. DuBois
- Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems. Mosley.W, Diawara. M, Taylor, C, Austin, R https://perception.org/representation/black-male-re-imagined/
- https://perception.org/representation/black-male-re-imagined/
- www.aaihs.org
FOR WHITE PEOPLE
WHITE PEOPLE, LIKE BLACK PEOPLE, ARE NOT MERELY A COLOR (OR LACK THEREOF). WHITE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAL FROM THE INFESTATION OF RACISM AS WELL. HERE ARE SOME RESOURCES THAT CAN HELP
- https://www.somervillemedia.org/lets-talk-about-race-pod/
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
- White Fragility:Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Robin DiAngelo
- White Like Me, Tim Wise
- How to be An AntiRacist, Ibram X. Kendi
- 7 Stages of [White] Cultural Identity Development, Daniel Hill’s Blog
READING LISTS
CHECK OUT OUR GROWING LIST OF HISTORY MAKING AUTHORS. WHEN YOU CAN TALK, WRITE – IT WILL GO FURTHER.
MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL EMANCIPATION IS THE PRODUCT OF BEING FREED FROM MENTAL SLAVERY. MENTAL WELLNESS MEANS YOU DO THE WORK TO HEAL WHAT HAS BEEN BROKEN IN YOU. WE CAN NOT FREE UNLESS ALL PARTS OF US ARE FREE.
- OurselvesBlack.com
- Mind Matters. Global Health Psychiatry
BLACK HISTORY EXHIBITS
THERE ARE GROWING OPPORTUNITIES TO CELEBRATE OUR LIVES ON THE SHORES BEYOND OUR HOMELAND. WE HAVE LISTED A FEW HERE.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, www.naahc.si.edu
- Legacy Museum, www.museumandmemorial.eji.org
- The Whitney Plantation Museum
BLACK EDUCATION
WHETHER YOU HOMESCHOOL, CHARTER SCHOOL, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATE YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN, UNDERSTANDING HOW TO STRUCTURE LEARNING IS KEY. FIND RESOURCES HERE TO HELP YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY AS A LEARNER.
- The Argument for the Return of Black Schools. Dr Amadou Diallo
- Everyday AntiRacism:Getting Real About Racism in Schools. Mica Pollock
- For White Folks who Teach in the Hood…And the Rest of Y’all Too:Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy). Christopher Emdin
- Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
- www.blacksinhigher.org
