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This repository offers the entire DevDiv community a starting point to educate themselves on the challenges created by systemic racial injustice. This is a collaborative effort, so please add these resources. Use these materials, add others that aren't included, and remember to listen to Black friends and colleagues about what it is _they_ need for support.
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| ✊🏿 | Black Lives Matter |
| 🤔 | Moment for reflection/thinking |
| ❓ | Pending resource check |
| 💰 | Donation request |
| 🖍️ | Resources for children |
| 🛐 | Religious/Related to religion |
| 🌍 | Cross-language resources |
| 🍿 | Video/Film to watch |
| 🎵 | Music, Podcast, Audiobook |
| 📗 | Book |
| 📓 | Website or other list of resources |
| 👩💻 | Tech/Microsoft related resources/info |
| 📄 | Document (i.e. Microsoft Word, Google Doc, etc.) |
| 📣 | Statistic/Fact (Be sure to link sources!) |
📄 Here is the Anti-Racism for Beginners guide: http://antiracismforbeginners.com/
👩💻 https://aka.ms/juneteenth-education
🍿 Here are a series of short 1 minute videos on systemic racism in different areas of American life. Shows that systemic racism affects black people, but also other minorities. https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
📄 Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community. In this document there are links to the learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day. Link to doc
🍿 Here is a list of free films to watch to learn and support Black people and history: https://filmschoolrejects.com/free-movies-to-support-black-lives-matter/
📰 This list consists entirely of longform interviews, essays and articles by black people about the experience of being black in the white supremacy of America, police violence, and the U.S. government’s undeclared war on its black citizens. All the authors are Black. Direct link: https://www.autostraddle.com/blacklivesmatter-the-longform-reading-list-265454/
📓 Great website with a LOT of resources dedicated to teaching, learning, and growing in understanding/empathy about the experiences of Black folks in America: https://blacklivesamerica.wixsite.com/educate4blm
- https://twitter.com/LashNolen/status/1265651372973625344?s=20
- https://twitter.com/but_im_kim_tran/status/1258451728451559424?s=20
🤔 If your social media feeds are not still talking about Black Lives Matter, systemic racism, and police brutality, follow more Black people.
Here are a few organizations to consider:
🖍️📗 Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
🖍️📗 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
🖍️🎵 Parenting Forward podcast episode 'Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt'
🖍️🎵 Fare of the Free Child podcast
🖍️🎵 Integrated Schools podcast episode "Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey"
🖍️📰 How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
🖍️📰 Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
🖍️📰 Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
🖍️📰 The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
🍿 Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
🍿 "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Atlantic (June 2014)
- "America's Racial Contract Is Killing Us" by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- "The Intersectionality Wars" by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- "Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?" by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- "Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- 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
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- 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
🍿 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
🍿 16 Shots (2019) - Showtime
🍿 American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
🍿 Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
🍿 Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
🍿 Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
🍿 Copwatch (2017) - Amazon Prime
🍿 Crime + Punishment (Stephen Maing) - Hulu
🍿 Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
🍿 Do Not Resist (2016) (Atkinson) - (Available for rental or purchase via Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, etc.)
🍿 Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
🍿 I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
🍿 If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
🍿 Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
🍿 King In The Wilderness — HBO
🍿 Let the Fire Burn (2013) - Kanopy
🍿 Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 (2017) / LA 92 (2017) - Netflix
🍿 See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
🍿 Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
🍿 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
🍿 The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) - Netflix
🍿 The Force (2017) (Peter Nick) - Netflix
🍿 When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
🍿 Whose Streets? (2017) - Hulu and Kanopy
🎵 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)
Here are some statistics related to systemic racism:
📣 Net worth: The median net worth of a white family is $171,000, while that of a typical black family is $17,150: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/
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Factor in centuries of some being able to own land, houses and slaves, not have to deal with redlining or housing discrimination
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Factor in impediments like the massacre of Tulsa’s Greenwood district (often referred to as “the Black Wall Street”)
📣 Black unemployment rate has been around twice that of the white unemployment rate for the last ~60 years: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2020/02/24/480743/persistence-black-white-unemployment-gap/
📣 African-american and Asian-american resumes were about twice more likely to get call-backs when whitened and / or scrubbed of racial clues. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews
🖍️ For 12-18 year olds, there are virtual classes throughout the summer 2020 teaching about the history of policing in the United States. https://www.freedomlifted.com/blog/2020/6/10/a-history-of-policing-online-class-for-ages-12-18
📓 Library guide with information about policing and mass incarceration. https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=598338&p=4142165
📓 Resource guide to Prisons, Punishment, and Criminality (lots of articles, books). https://medium.com/@micahherskind/resource-guide-prisons-policing-and-punishment-effb5e0f6620
(really good 6 minute explanation of housing segregation history): https://www.facebook.com/NPR/videos/701877010588148/
Points from video:
📣 In 1934 (and over the next 30 years), Neighbourhoods were redlined based on socio-economic status and RACE. “Negro and foreign-born” neighborhoods were redlined made it harder, if not impossible to buy / re-finance homes, leading to lower property values, neglect, unreliable city services and higher crime.
📣 Some suburbs created rules / covenants forbidding selling homes to black people.
📣 Fair Housing Act (FHA) passed in 1968. However, FHA Does little to fix existing problems that were created by redlining, and it wasn't ever enforced.
📣 Home ownership is the major source of wealth in America, and Black families have much less access to home ownership.
📣 Quality of education tied to property taxes. A higher quality of education in turn increases the value of homes, resulting in a feedback loop resulting in more money going toward richer, whiter neighborhoods.
📣 Urban planning which benefits those richer neighborhoods was often at the expense of the areas which people of color lived in. These communities are more likely to be underserved by grocery stores, limiting access to fresh food.
📣 Black/African-American folks are also more likely to live in places where water is not drinkable. Note that the water in Flint, MI is still not drinkable, six years later, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
📣 The segregation of redlined neighborhoods persists to the present day.
📣 Segregation makes police racial profiling of neighborhoods more likely, camouflaged as spatial profiling, where living in certain areas increases the likelihood of being stopped by the police. This profiling and aggressive policing leads to lower trust of police.
🤔 Think about it: we are only two mortgages away from the Civil Rights Act and Fair Housing Act.
📣 People of color are more likely to live near industrial plants that pollute the environment. The buildings in these areas often contain lead paint. This leads to significantly higher rates of certain cancers, respiratory, and heart issues in Black and Brown communities..
📣 Black babies have an infant mortality 2.3 times higher than that of non-hispanic white babies https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=23
🤔 I will encourage you to think, why such huge disparities between different races? Could America's history of slavery and segregation play a part? Do current / recent policies play a part? Do people's biases and media portrayal of races play a part?
🛐 For Christians, how has America eagerly tried to fix the problems caused by racism and slavery in its history? Is America practicing restorative justice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A14THPoc4-4
Black women and femmes, and Black trans people experience layered oppression on multiple axes of their identities. When learning and participating in activism, it is important to make sure that you are following the lead of and uplifting all Black people, not only Black men. Black Trans Lives Matter.
Here are some of readings to start with which contain several links:
📓 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a32867836/black-trans-lives-matter-how-to-help-protest-donate/
📓 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-black-lives-matter-movement-must-include-trans-people
🇪🇹 🇪🇷 ✊🏿 Talk to your Habesha family members about Black Lives Matter! Read and share this pdf
🇨🇳 Chinese-language resources for BLM
- Google doc with a lot of resources in Mandarin
- Link to Chinese-language BLM resoures: https://bit.ly/chnarticlesblm2020