COMMITMENT TO BLACK LIVES MATTER

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We pledge to be anti-racist and to work consciously to end white supremacy and to contribute to the fight for racial justice and equity.  We will continually re-examine how we are using our resources to give voice to these principles. As we move into 2021, we re-affirm our commitment to do our part to end white supremacy's hold on US policy and its persistent presence in our communities and to support and advocate for anti-racist policies and actions, elevating black voices, businesses and initiatives that benefit societal equity and end injustice in American society. 

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RESOURCES (A partial and ongoing list):

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Black Lives Matter

• Black Lives Matter 

• Black Visions Collective  

• Movement for Black Lives 

 

Donations / Actions 

• Emergency Release Fund (pre-trial release for LGBTQ people)

• Reclaim the Block 

• National Bail Fund Directory 

• Free Black Mamas 

• Bail Funds/Legal Help by City

• Pro Bono Reps Info and More 

• Minnesota Freedom Fund 

• Communities United for Police Reform

• Justice for Tony McDade Petition 

• Justice for Breonna Taylor Petition 

• Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet Petition  

• Justice for Dreasjon Reed - Donation 

• Justice for Ahmaud Arbery

• George Floyd Memorial Fund 

• James Scurlock Memorial Fund

 

Photography/Journalism/Documentary 

• Pro Bono Artist Consulting for BIPOC Visual Artists

• Support Photographers of  Color Petition 

• The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography - By the Authority Collective and PhotoShelter 

• Decolonizing Documentary & Journalism - Reading list by Ligaiya Romero  

• Violent Protests Are Not The Story. Police Violence Is - Dylan Scott for Vox 

• A List For Those Considering Diversity When Complacency Wasn't Enough - By @PhotoGreenbook 

• Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics 

• National Press Photographers Code of Ethics 

• Race Forward’s Race Reporting Guide (2015) 

• Fuck Photojournalism - Clary Estes 

• How Alexandra Bell is Disrupting Racism in Journalism - The New Yorker

• When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.) - Teju Cole for the New York Times 

• Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color - Tara Pixley for Nieman Reports

• The Telling of Black Stories: The Importance of Controlling Our Own Narratives - Gioncaro Valentine 

• “Blind spots: The dangers of unchecked social bias in race and media” - Shaminder Dulai for Everyday Projects

• The Western Gaze: On Photojournalism & Challenging Harmful Representations - Tara Pixley for PhotoVoice 

• Time Magazine’s Cover isn’t Bold or Brave. It’s Exploitative - Kainaz Amaria for VOX

• Defining and explaining structural racism - Aspen Institute on Community Change & Applied Research Center at UC Berkeley

• Photography, Colonialism & Racism - International Affairs Review

• Of colonial photographs and cultural resources: The photographic archive of the Sarawak Museum - TransAsia Photography Review

• Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands - Journal of Transnational American Studies

• Inequities Among Photojournalists Produce a Familiar Image - Tara Pixley for Newsweek

• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - Linda Tuhiwai Smith

  • “The remembering of a people relates not so much to an idealized remembering of a golden past but more specifically to the remembering of a painful past and, importantly, people’s responses to that pain.” 

• Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it - Lewis Wallace

• The View From Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity - Lewis Wallace

• The View From Somewhere: Podcast  - Lewis Wallace

• The Black Shutter Podcast: The Voices of Black Photography - Idris Solomon

• The Journalists of Color Resource Guide - Accountability Page 

• Photos can show protests’ complexity—or they can perpetuate old lies - John Edwin Mason for National Geographic 

• Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum by Sarah Lewis and Aperture  

 

Additional Resources on Anti-Racism, Anti-Blackness, Solidarity 

• Support Black-Owned Businesses: Links to Shop

• 7 Mental Health Resources for Black People Right Now 

• 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille C. Harper 

• 6 Ways to Activate Beyond Social Media by Jezz Chung 

• 26 Ways To Be In The Struggle Beyond The Streets 

• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice 

• Anti-racism resources for white people 

• Rachel Cargle’s resource round-up 

• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup 

• How To Be Actively Antiracist 

• 10 Reasons Supporting Black Lives Matter Activism

• 8 Lessons About Racism That Were Helpful to Me as a White Person

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now

• Black & Asian Solidarity in NYC: What We’ve Learned - video  

• Reading list: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities 

• Letters for Black Lives: Open Letter Project on Anti-Blackness 

• Black Trans Men Face a Constant Threat of Police Violence

• @mimizhuxiyuan - “To white people and non-black POC”

• adrienne maree brown 

• Angela Davis - The Meaning of Freedom 

• Template for Holding Your Employer Accountable For Racial Justice 

• BLM Reading List - Powells

• BLM Reading List - Feminist Press

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall 

• “Letters for Black Lives: Open Letter Project On Anti-Blackness” in different languages 

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (Free PDF attached; direct link here)

• Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People by Kelsey Blackwell (online article)

• THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE (Free excerpt)

• The End of Policing? by Alex S. Vitale (Free eBook attached)

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

• What Would A Police Free World Look Like? - MPD150

• Black Revolutionary Texts - compilation 

• Prompts written by @jezzchung for non-Black folx

  • In what ways does my proximity to whiteness afford me privileges that aren't extended to Black and Brown people?

  • In what ways have I been conditioned to believe in the superiority of whiteness?

  • In what ways have I engaged in rhetoric that promotes othering or stereotyping of Black people?

• The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S. - Smithsonian Magazine  

• 1619 Project 

 

To Watch:

• Jane Elliot - How Racist Are You?  (Free Video via Youtube) | More on the Study 

• I Am Not Your Negro - Free with Amazon Prime 

• 13th - Free with Netflix Subscription 

• When They See Us - Free on Netflix + Discussion Guide 

• The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 - Free video via Youtube

• How Racist Are You? - Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise (UK)

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Wealth Redistribution to Groups that Center Black People:

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This is a non-exhaustive list of organizations/associations/collectives/etc. that center Black people. Most hyperlinks go straight to a donation or CashApp page, others go to a homepage on which you’ll have to search a bit for the “Donate” or “Support” button. You can also redistribute wealth locally by searching for groups like this in your area. It is also recommended to redistribute wealth directly to Black writers, educators, influencers from whom you learn, but Black people do not need to educate us in order to deserve our financial support. Reparations are owed nonetheless.

Arts

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Crafting

• Clara Ford Foundation (Quilting)

• Harlem Needle Arts

Dance

• International Association of Blacks in Dance

• Dance Theatre of Harlem

• Northwest Tap Connection

General

• Black Art Futures Fund

• Black Arts and Cultural Center

• Black Trans Femmes in the Arts

• National Center of African American Arts

• Shades Collective

• Black Art in America (Patreon page)

• Art Leaders of Color Emergency Fun

Music

• Oakland Interfaith Youth Gospel Choir

• Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles

• Sphinx Music

Theatre

• National Black Theatre Institution of Action Arts

• Front Porch Arts Collective

 

Childcare/Birthwork/Fertility

• Birthmark Doulas

• Cornerstone Doula Training

• National Black Midwives Alliance (NBMA)

• Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT)

• Black Mamas Matter Alliance

• Moms of Black Boys United (MOBB United)

• Doula Training Scholarship Fund

• Born Rooted, Fund for Black Birthing Bodies

• Help Efe Become a Midwife

• Fertility for Colored Girls

 

Disability Support

• National Black Disability Coalition

• National Black Deaf Advocates

 

Education/Literacy

• Montessori for Social Justice

• Well-Read Black Girl

• Black Teacher Project

• Embracing Equity

• Barbershop Books

• Conscious Kid

• We Need Diverse Books

 

Environmental Justice

• Land Lost Prevention Project

• We Act for Environmental Justice

• Green Worker Cooperative

• Philly Urban Creators

• Acres of Ancestry

 

Food/Agriculture

• Black Culinary Alliance

• Black Earth Farms (site)

• AfroVegan Society

• Justice for Black Farmers

• National Black Farmers Association

• Farms to Grow

• City Slicker Farms

• Soul Fire Farm

• Grow Where You Are (Patreon)

• List of Black-owned farms/food gardens in the US

 

Housing/Community

• ACCE Action

• Moms 4 Housing

• Coalition for Homelessness

• Black Visions Collective

• Reclaim the Block

• Spit Justice

• Peoples Breakfast of Oakland

 

Language Services

• Nationals Association of Black Interpreters

 

Law

• Transgender Law Center

• NAACP

 

LGBTQIA+

• Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)

• Trans Women of Color Collective

• Black Trans Advocacy Coalition

• Black Trans Travel Fund

• The Okra Project

• Audre Lord Project

• The Transgender District

• For the Gworls

• House of GG

• Trans Justice Funding Project

• Youth Breakout

• Marsha P. Johnson Institute

 

Library & Information Sciences

• Joint Council of Librarians of Color

 

Outdoors/Nature

• Outdoor Afro

• Black Outside, Inc.

 

Medical

• General

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community- Sunshine Behavioral Health

• Mental Health Resources Supporting Black Men

• Community Mental Health Resources

• Summit Wellness 61 Resources for BIPOC: Mental Wellness and Addiction Recovery 

• Black Women’s Health Imperative

• Cancer

• Sisters Network Inc. 

• African American Breast Cancer Alliance

• COVID-19

• NYC COVID Response Fund

• Black and Pink, COVID Relief

• AIDS

• Black AIDS Institute

• Skin Health/Cancer Awareness for POC

 

 

Prison Abolition/Incarceration Issues

• Black Mamas Bailout

• The Innocence Project

• Equal Justice Initiative

• Black and Pink

• Critical Resistance

• Root & Rebound

• Youth Justice Coalition

• A New Way of Life Reentry Project

• Free Mutulu Shakur

• LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

• Survived and Punished NY

 

Sex Work

• Black Sex Worker Collective

• Mutual Aid Fund for Sex Workers of Color

 

Sports/Movement

• Black Kids Swim

• Black Women in Sport Foundation

• Lineage Project (yoga)

• Urban Yoga Foundation

 

Therapy/Counseling/Social Work

• The Loveland Foundation

• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

• The Association of Black Psychologists, Trauma Relief Fund

• Black Mental Health Alliance

• National Association of Black Social Workers, Disaster Relief Fund

• The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation

 

Tech

• Black Girls Code

• Black Tech Nation

• Digital Undivided

• All Star Code

• Hidden Genius Project

 

Creative Writing/Journalism

• Nomadic Press, Association of Black and Brown Writers

• Cave Canem, A Home for Black Poetry

• National Association of Black Journalists

• Black Agenda Report

 

Youth Mentoring and Leadership

• Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA)

• Common Ground Foundation

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Buy wines from Black-owned businesses and vintners such as:

• Wine-O Wine & Spirit Shop (Bedford-Stuyvesant)

• Bed-Vyne Wine & Spirits (Bedford-Stuyvesant)

• Bottoms Up Wine & Spirits (Crown Heights)

• Happy Cork (Bedford-Stuyvesant)

• Good Wine NYC (Park Slope)

• Leslie's Classic Wines (Park Slope)

• Pompette Wine & Spirits (Harlem)

• Members of the Association of African American Vintners

• Shop Heritage Link Brands: Married couple Khary and Selena Cuffe founded Heritage Link Brands after learning that although South Africa had a $3 billion wine industry, less than 2% of the industry was owned by people of color. This was particularly shocking because over 85% of the country's population is made up of POC. Now, the company is the preeminent U.S. distributor of wine produced by indigenous African vintners and people of African descent throughout the world. It has a global portfolio of award-winning wines and fair trade certified, sustainable, and women-owned brands: Casa Valduga 130 - 750 ML, $35.00 $32.95, available at Wine On Sale; Don Guerino Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 - 750 ML, $17.95, available at Wine On Sale; House of Mandela Pinotage 2013 - 750 ML, $12.95, available at Wine On Sale.  [Source: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-owned-wine-brands]

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