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ThinkLA stands in solidarity with the black community.
Our mission to connect, educate, and inspire compels us to not remain silent.

We seek diversity and inclusion in all we do in an effort to support peace and justice while creating opportunities for all.

We want to be part of that solution and that requires all of us to demonstrably combat racism and hate.

Please stay in touch with us to let us know how you are doing because everything is not “fine”.

We are working to create forums to promote discussion and so that we can create hopeful change, no matter how uncomfortable that conversation may be.

This is about our community, our allies, and our voices… It’s about ALL of us.

#BlackLivesMatter

Messages from Us at ThinkLA:

This document is a community effort by the ThinkLA team and our members. Some of it has been reposted from The What Can I Do? Toolkit and resources from Care.org. If you would like to contribute, please send your links and ideas to info@thinkla.org.

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ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES:

• 50 Things to Create A More Anti-Racist Workplace

• Three’s A Crowd Empowering Black creative professionals to unapologetically embrace their Blackness.

• Justice in June: Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed.

• bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

• Anti Racism Resource Guide

• Say Space A collective that builds thriving, equitable, and inclusive companies that make a positive impact in the world.

• 11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In the Wake of Police Brutality

• Barack Obama: How To Make This Moment The Turning Point For Real Change

• Me and White Supremacy: A Workbook by Layla F. Saad (PDF download, or go to her site.)
  
  CONNECT WITH THESE ORGANIZATIONS
  ON THE FRONT LINES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Black Futures Lab Campaign Zero

• Center for Policing Equity Movement For Black Lives

• National Black Justice Coalition

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund

• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights—New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing

• Equal Justice Initiative—Tragic Death of George Floyd Reveals Continuing Problem of Police Violence

• Campaign Zero—Solutions

• Center for Policing Equity—The Science of Justice: Race, Justice, and Police Use of Force

• TED talk on fighting racism and improving policing here.

• The Opportunity Agenda—Promoting Accountability

• The National Museum of African American History and Culture—Talking About Race

• Black Lives Matter

• Ways you can help (from BLM)

• White People 4 Black Lives

• Antiracist research & policy center

• NAACPShowing up for Racial Justice

• Ways to Help

ARTICLES:

• Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is… A Lot Link

• How Companies Can Address the Aftermath of George Floyd and Christian Cooper Link

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge Link

• Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd ProtestsBeing Anti-racist Link

• What We Know About the Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis Link

• In Philanthropy, Race Is Still a Factor in Who Gets What, Study Shows Link

• Philanthropists Bench Women of Color, the M.V.P.s of Social Change Link

• Still A Target, Still A Leader: Creating Space For HumansLink

• For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies Link

• George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper” (video)Link

• Whites Only: SURJ And The Caucasian Invasion Of Racial Justice Spaces Link

• White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching Link

• Confessions of a Former Cop Link

• It looks like Amy Cooper, the white woman in the viral Central Park video, is a liberal. That's important Link

• How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism Link

• The Jane Club’s Anti-Racism Resources (various resources within)Link

• Cleo Wade Anti-Racism Resources (various resources within)Link

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

• 30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday Link

• Medium (Barack Obama): “How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” Link

• Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about? Link

• The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate… (quote) Link

• National Museum of African American History and Culture: “Talking About Race”Link

• It's not the racists we have to worry about Link

BOOKS:

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad

• White Fragility - Robin Diangelo

• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

• How to be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal Marie Fleming

• I’m Still Here - Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein

• March - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

• How to be Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• Embrace Race - 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race

• The Conscious Kid - Critical Conversations

• 10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday Racism - Derrick Clifton @mic

• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (free ebook, edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price)

• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson,Ph.D.

• The Political Determinants of Health - Daniel E. Dawes

• 150 Years of ObamaCare - Daniel E. Dawes

• Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority - Tim Wise

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

DONATE

• http://aclu.org 

• http://joincampaignzero.org 

• http://nlg-npap.org   

• http://blacklivesmatter.com 

• http://advancementproject.org 

• http://changethenypd.org  

• http://M4BL.org 

• http://themarshallproject.org 

• LDF

• https://srlp.org/donate/

Support Black-owned businesses

• Support small online Black owned businesses 

• Google doc of Black owned businesses

• Twitter thread: "here’s a thread of black small businesses that were destroyed that you can donate to to help rebuild"

• gofundme - Black-Owned Business Relief Fund

• Twitter thread: "Black owned business that have been affected by the protests that you can help!"

• LA Black-owned restaurants doc

• gofundme - Rumors Boutique

• Twitter thread: "GoFundMe's and donation sites for the local minneapolis/st. paul black and brown owned businesses that need help right now (destroyed at the hands of white supremacists)"

• gofundme - Zahalea Anderson (lost her business in Long Beach, CA)

Reflect

How do I want to start showing up?

Where can I get uncomfortable?

What biases do I have and need to unlearn?

Saying I’m not racist” isn’t enough. What intentional actions will I take to be anti-racists?

How do I want to use my voice?

How will I hold myself accountable for doing my work?

How will I hold others accountable when I hear comments roosted in racists ideology?

If 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 People of Color?

What can I do to better educate myself on the historical context of race in the country and community I exist in?

What is your earliest memory around skin color? Race? Difference?  Privilege? Hierarchy?

How did your parents talk to you (or not talk to you) about whiteness, privilege, and racism?