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Reparations and Apologies for Slavery
“An apology is meaningless without reparations. But reparations would be meaningless without a heartfelt apology.”
HR 40 proposes a commission to study the effects of slavery on the descendants of American slaves and make recommendations to address the conditions, including economic, caused by inter-generational poverty rooted in slavery. Here is the full wording of HR40.
As of August 2019, Racial Justice Rising is offering the local and global community the opportunity to express why reparations are important to you. One of the co-chairs of New England N’COBRA (the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America) has suggested that especially people of European descent talk about this topic. And every voice is welcome here.
If you’d like to provide your comments in support of reparations, please follow the link here.
HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF REPARATIONS PAYMENTS MADE FROM 1866 THROUGH 2018 BY U.S. GOVERNMENT, STATES, CITIES, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, by Dr. Allen J. Davis, Ed.D.
40 Acres and a Mule Would Be At Least $6.4 Trillion Today: What America Really Owes Black America, an infographic by Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn & Jeff Neumann at Yes! Magazine
Black Farmers To Receive Payouts From Federal Lawsuit, by Carolyn Brown at Black Enterprise
The Case For Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, at the Atlantic
For Truth and Reparations Campaign
Georgetown University to offer slave descendents preferential admission status, by Kathryn Vasel at CNN
Jamaica is Calling on Britain To Pay Millions in Reparations by Rowena Mason at Business Insider
National African American Reparations Commission
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)
Reparations: The Time Is Now, a guide from Coming To The Table
Slavery reparations dominate David Cameron’s Jamaica visit, a very short video from A&J films
Speakers Call For Federal Reparations, by Janelle Odionou at the Cornell Daily Sun
Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes The Case For Reparations, audio recording of a June 2015 talk on WNPR
This Could Be Reparations’ Best Chance Since 1865, by Salim Muwakkil at In These Times
U.S. Owes Black People Reparations for History of Racial Terrorism, Says U.N., by Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post
Apologies for Slavery
December 2015: Delaware Governor Says State Must Apologize For Its Role in Slavery, by Barbara Goldberg at Huffington Post
U.S. government apologies for slavery:
House of Representatives
Alabama
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
New Jersey
North Carolina
Virginia
Annapolis MD
Other countries:
In 2006 Tony Blair, prime minister, expressed “deep sorrow” for the UK’s role in the slave trade.
Businesses and universities
– Brown University
– Aetna, mid-2000, prompted by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, apologized for insurance policies written on slaves 140 years earlier.
– In 2002, New York Life, the insurer, donated documents about the insurance it sold to slave owners in the 1840s to a New York library. It also backed educational efforts.
– In 2005 JPMorgan, the investment bank, apologized that two of its predecessors in Louisiana – Citizens Bank and Canal Bank – had mortgaged slaves. The bank made its research public and set up a $5m scholarship fund for African- American pupils.
– Lehman Brothers apologized in 2005 for its predecessors’ links to slavery, while Bank of America said it regretted any actions its predecessors might have taken to support or tolerate slavery.
– Wachovia Bank, since acquired by Wells Fargo, also apologized for its predecessors having owned and profited from slaves. It set up a program offering $1bn in loans for black car dealerships.
– In October 2001 students at Yale University pointed out its past links with slavery. The university noted it had already founded the Gilder-Lehrman center for the study of slavery.
– Brown University has set up a commission to look into links with slavery and how it should make amends.
– Emory University, January 2011
Faith groups
Episcopal Church
Church of England
Episcopal Church in North Carolina
Southern Baptist Convention
Confronting Racial Bias At Work, from Race Forward
Feel Like You’re At Risk? A list of your rights and where to get help – for Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ, disabled people, protesters, sexual assault survivors, and more, from the ACLU
If Immigration Agents Show Up At Your Door, a poster from ACLU of Northern California
Important Information for Immigrants and Allies, from the Center for New Americans in western MA
Support Puerto Rico, Mexico September-October 2017
- Here’s How To Support Puerto Rico, from Remezcla
- How To Help Mexico and Puerto Rico, from Latino USA
- Help Residents of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Recover After Maria, from Colorlines
- Cuba, Venezuela Offer Hurricane Relief, from TeleSur
100 Years of Colonialism: How Puerto Rico Became Easy Prey for Profiteers, by Joel Cintron Arbasetti, * Carla Minet at Centro Periodismo Investigativo, and Alex V. Hernandez, and Jessica Stites at In These Times, from In These Times
The Difference Between “Latino” and “Hispanic” in One Cartoon, by Terry Blas at Vox.com
Harvest of Empire, a feature-length documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.
“I’m Latino, but I’m Not…” from Buzzfeed
Irma and Maria: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality, by Ana Portnoy at Counterpoint
The Jones Act Explained, by Matthew Yglesias at Vox
Latino Americans, a six-hour documentary from PBS
Latino Life by the Numbers, an infographic from Colorlines
Taínos: The First Resistance, from Latino Rebels
Ten Ethnic Studies Books Arizona Doesn’t Want You To Read, by Yara Simon at Remezclez
Voter Suppression Targets Latinx Voters in Red States, by Yessenia Fues at Colorlines
White Latino Racism on the Rise: On Euro Diasporic Whiteness, by William Garcia at Latino Rebels
National Actions and Groups
10 Ways To Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide, from Southern Poverty Law Center
AJ+ News
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
– Feel Like You’re At Risk? A list of your rights and where to get help – for Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ, disabled people, protesters, sexual assault survivors, and more, from the ACLU
The Art of the Protest, Here’s how protesting has succeeded, by Tina Rosenberg in the New York Times
Color of Change, campaigns against injustice
Colorlines, news for action
Defending Free Expression, a Tool Kit For Writers and Readers, by Masha Gessen at PEN
Despair is Not A Strategy, 15 Principles of Hope by Abby Brockman at Medium
Indivisible – a practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda
Love Army, Fight Different with Van Jones, Tem Blessed, and more
POC Online Classroom, Celebrating the Brilliance of Marginalized Peoples
Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call For Moral Revival
Race Forward, the center for racial justice innovations
Racial Equity Tools Support for people and groups who are working for inclusion, racial equity and social justice. The site includes ideas, strategies and tips, as well as a clearinghouse of resources and links from many sources.
Resistance Manual includes links to Trump’s agenda, essential readings, resources, political issues, more
Southern Poverty Law Center tracks hate groups, publishes a “tolerance” curriculum for schools
SURJ (Showing Up For Racial Justice)
The Two Things That Will Determine Our Fate by Taj James
United We Dream, Standing Together to Protect Immigrants and Refugees
Be An Effective Activist
5 Ways To Disrupt Racism, short film from VideoRev and the UK Racial Justice Network
Access Suggestions for Mobilizations, from Sins Invalid – so everyone can participate
Bystander Intervention Training More Important Than Ever, by Christina Cauterucci at Slate
Cynicism Will Not Build A Movement. Collaboration Will, by Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Deciding To Lead With Love Despite An Enraging Political Climate, by Rinku Sen at Colorlines
Don’t Be A Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding To Racist Attacks, a video from the Barnard Center for Research on Women
How To Be A Racial Justice Hero All Year Long, from Colorlines
How To Stay Outraged Without Losing Your Mind, by Mirah Curzer at Medium
Self Care for People of Color After Emotional and Psychological Trauma, from Just Jasmine
Self Care Means Acknowledging That Structural Racism Exists, by Doretta Lau at Huffington Post
There Are Ways To Reduce Racial Bias. Calling People Racist Isn’t One of Them, by German Lopez at Vox
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
A Bibliography For the Revolution, from #BlackLivesMatter Nashville
Black Lives Matter issues a Statement on Trump’s Election, by Aaron Morrison at Mic
Black Lives Matter Syllabus: Voices from The Movement – dozens of videos and more
Black Protests vs. White Riots, a new 3-minute film from Brave New Films
Black Women Matter, a video from For Harriet
How A Hashtag Defined A Movement, the founders of Black Lives Matter on how it all began, from EmergingUS
Interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter, TED talks, October 2016
Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement, by Barbara Ransby at Colorlines
The Movement for Black Lives: A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, and Justice
Why having a predominantly white police force is dangerous to the Black community, a video from Atlanta Black Star
Don’t just be an ally in safe space. Don’t just hold the #BlackLivesMatter sign when it is safe. Hold the sign when bullets are flying over your head. Hold the sign when our children are dying from asthma and living in mold infested projects. Tell me a life matters when it costs you something. Don’t let my pain be your weekend excursion.
–Rev. Michael Walrond, pastor of First Corinthia Baptist Church in NY, quoted by Urban Cusp
Projects, Groups, Actions
Beyond Whiteness: This website is full of resources for antiracism and information about white privilege, racism, and more.
Catalyst Project, organizing antiracist whites
The Center for the Study of White American Culture and their blog on topics of whiteness
Community Change, Inc, Boston
The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper from the 1800s
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
** Donate to Black-Led Racial Justice Organizations, from SURJ
Traces of the Trade and The Tracing Center
The White Noise Collective is a collective of people dedicated to racial justice that explores how internalized sexism and heterosexism show up in the work of anti-racist activists, educators and allies.
Articles, Videos, Books, etc
9 Ways You Can Use Your White Privilege For Good, from MTV (of all places)
13 Resources for Teaching About White Privilege
16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read, from Huffington Post
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, An Indigenous Perspective and Provocation, from Indigenous Action Media
– Stop Being An Ally, #AccomplicesNotAllies, a video from This Matters
Advice for white folks in the wake of the police murder of a black person, by Justin Cohen
Allies, The Time For Your Silence Has Expired, from SoulA Scriptura
Are You Racist? 28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors, from Odin’s B-Log
Can Master Syndrome be Undone? An Urgent Challenge for the Anti-Racist Movement by Maria Reinat-Pumarejo
Code of Ethics for Antiracist White Allies by JLove and Tim Wise
The Costs of Racism for White People by Paul Kivel
Dear White America by George Yancy at the New York Times
Emptying the White Knapsack, by Jaime Grant
How Racism Affects White Americans, by Dr. John H. Bracey Jr. from the Media Education Foundation
How To Overcome The Murderous Fear of White People by Zaron Burnett III at Human Parts
If You Have To Tell Your Kids This Stuff, Then You Probably Aren’t a White Person, a short video by Javon Johnson, from Button Poetry, on Upworthy
The Importance of Listening as a Privileged Person Fighting For Justice, by Jamie Utt
Jews in America Struggled to Become White. Now We Must Give Up Whiteness to Fight Racism, by Gil Steinlauf in the Washington Post
My Fellow White People, We Need To Talk, by Fog City John at the Daily Kos
Privilege 101: A Quick & Dirty Guide, by Sian Ferguson at Everyday Feminism
Dr. Robin DiAngelo:
– 11 Common Ways White Folks Avoid Taking Responsibility for Racism
– Deconstructing White Privilege, a video
– No I Won’t Stop Saying White Supremacy
– White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
– White Women’s Tears & The Men Who Love Them
Shining The Light On White by Sharon Martinas
So You Call Yourself An Ally? 10 Things All “Allies” Need To Know by Jamie Utt
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson
This is What White People Can Do to Support BlackLivesMatter, from the Washington Post
Toward An Abolitionist Feminism, by Zillah Eisenstein at Portside.
Ways White People Can Process Emotions Without Bringing On White Tears, by Jennifer Loubriel at Everyday Feminism
White Dude Gets Real About Racism, a video from comedian Louis C.K.
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
What Cultural Appropriation Is and Why You Should Care, by Shree Paradkar at The Star
What is Whiteness? by Nell Irvin Painter in the NY Times
What You Can Do Right Now About Police Brutality, by Ijeoma Oluo
What White America Fails To See, by Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times
White Privilege Explained In Five Minutes, a video by ArchDuke
White Supremacy Culture, by Kenneth Jones & Tema Okun
Whites Only: SURJ And The Caucasian Invasion Of Racial Justice Spaces by Didi Delgado at The Establishment
Whites Who Are Scared They Will Be Called Racist, a video with Kathy Obear from Philippe After Hours
Whites Won’t Give Up on Racism by Scot Nakagawa at ChangeLab
You’ve Been Well Cared For by Betty Reid Mandell
413 Staying Connected For Action
ACLU Immigrant Protection Project of Western MA
All Souls Church annual Anti-Racism Film Festival, held every spring
The Amherst Branch NAACP, Facebook page may be more up to date than website.
Amherst Human Rights Commission
Arise for Social Justice, Springfield MA
Coming Together, Amherst MA
Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, building alliances between artists and others in the U.S. with groups in Africa
David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History and Underground Railroad Studies, Florence MA
Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution
Gardening the Community, Springfield MA
Great Falls Books Through Bars
Greenfield Human Rights Commission
Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley
It’s no confederate flag, but the Massachusetts state seal is still pretty awful, by Yvonne Abraham at the Boston Globe
Massachusetts for Equality and Racial Justice (MERJ)
Mass Slavery Apology, RJR’s keystone project
Multicultural Bridge, Berkshire County, MA
New Massachusetts Hotline To Report Civil Rights Complaints
The Nolumbeka Project, preserving New England’s Tribal Heritage
Not In Our Town Greenfield MA, organizing to prevent hate crimes and bullying
Nuestras Raices, promoting agri-culture in Holyoke
Pioneer Valley Workers Center, building power with low-wage and immigrant workers throughout Western Massachusetts
Racial Justice Rising – that’s us!
The Root Social Justice Center, Brattleboro VT
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a book by Dr. Robert H. Romer of Amherst
Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project, Florence, MA
Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership
Undoing Racism Organizing Collective brings Undoing Racism Workshops to the region
Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition works to prevent sexual and domestic violence in the intertribal communities of the Northeast & to prevent violence against Mother Earth.
Western MA Health Equity Network
– Listing of Regional Racial Justice Resources
Are Arabs White? by Khaled Beydoun at Al-Jazeera
Colorlines posts on Islamophobia
Dear Non-Muslim Allies, by Sofia Ali-Kahn
Hijabi World, voices of young Muslim women in a short film by Julie Winokur
How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI & Then Lost Everything, from The Nation, about Springfield MA resident Ayyub Abdul-Alim
The Race Hate We All Know, by Nimra Azmi at Colorlines
Stand Up Against Anti-Arab Racism and Islamophobia, from Coming Together
What to do when you see Islamophobia, by a graphic narrative by Maeril at Buzzfeed
The 3/5 Clause And Indian Removal, by Michael McLean at We’re History
8th Fire Dispatches: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, and the Way Forward, films by a team of Aboriginal storytellers from CBC
10 Year Old Wukchumni Boy’s Refusal To Sing Song Leads to Its Removal From School, by Levi Rickert at Native News Online
11 Essential Native American Films You Can Watch Online Right Now from Indian Country Today
Action Lab for Community Wealth Building: Working Collaboratively to Build Community Wealth in Indian Country
All The Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, a new book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, from Beacon Press
Australians Apologize for Atrocities Against Aboriginal Peoples, from A+J
Canada Acknowledges Abuse of First Nations, a video from AJ+
Canada’s Cultural Genocide from A+J Films
Dear Settlers, Before Using Our Medicine, Be Aware of Your White Privilege, by From An Indigenous Perspective
The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code, a film from 38 plus 2 Productions
Forced to Dance to the White Man’s Song: Australia, Steeped in Racism from the Stringer Independent News
How the West Was Lost by Native Americans, an animated graphic from the Atlantic Wire
Indian Country Today Media Network
Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Interactive time-lapse map shows how the U.S. took more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans, by Rebecca Onion and Claudio Saunt at Slate.com
Thanksgiving Through the Lens of Native Americans Today, from PBS, featuring Wampanoag perspective in articles, videos, etc.
More Cities Ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s Day, from Telesur 10/9/16
Native Lives Matter Syllabus from POC Online Classroom
New Totem Pole Memorializes Boarding School Victims and Survivors, from CBC News
The Nolumbeka Project and the Narragansett Indian Tribe Historic Preservation Office work together to preserve New England’s tribal heritage through education, sacred site preservation, and more.
Police Are Killing One Group At A Staggering Rate, by Zack Cheney-Rice at mic.com
The Police Killings No One Is Talking About: Native Americans Most Likely To Be Killed By Cops, from Democracy Now
Resistance
– Idle No More!
– Global #NoDAPL Month of Action, a video from Sacred Stone Camp
– Veterans’ apology at Standing Rock, video from Our Revolution and article from Daily Kos
– Official Support for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Against DAPL
– Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Facebook
– Standing Rock Syllabus, from NYC Stands With Standing Rock
– 20 Photos, My 7 Months At Standing Rock, by Desiree Kane at Yes! Magazine
– Indigenous Waters, a website advocating the inherent human right to water and the protection of Indigenous Peoples’ environmental rights. Water is life.
– Life in the Native American oil protest camps, from BBC News
United American Indians of New England
The United Nations says U.S. should return stolen land to Indian tribes – from the Guardian
Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition works to prevent sexual and domestic violence in the intertribal communities of the Northeast & to prevent violence against Mother Earth.
What if they told European history the way the tell Native American history? from the blog An Indigenous History of America
What Native Americans Couldn’t Do Until … from OMG Facts
Yes, Native Americans were the victims of genocide, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at History News Network
19 Reasons Latin Americans Come to the U.S. That Have Nothing To Do With The American Dream, by Roque Planas in Huffington Post.
ACLU Immigrant Protection Project of Western MA
The Domestic Worker Immigration Project is run by the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston.
Brave Hearts, When Lowell Was A Sanctuary City for Fugitive Slaves, a historical perspective by Robert Forrant at WBUR
Don’t Get Your Undocumented Friends In Trouble: A How-To, by Felicia Jarvis at the Daily Demand
If Immigration Agents Show Up At Your Door, a poster from ACLU of Northern California
Important Information for Immigrants and Allies, from the Center for New Americans in western MA
“Justice Fund” to Cover Legal Costs for Immigrants Facing Deportation, by Kaitlyn D’Onofrio at Diversity, Inc.
Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante, Vermont
My Undocumented Friend, by Terry J. Allen in The Guardian
The National Domestic Workers Alliance mobilizes domestic workers across the country. (Most domestic workers are immigrant and/or of-color women.)
New Research Studies Immigration Assimilation and Busts Stereotypes, by Kenrya Rankin Naasel at Colorlines
No Excuses Not To Talk About Immigration, a short video and history of U.S. immigration policy from The Skimm
Pioneer Valley (MA) Workers Center offers resources for immigrants and Sanctuary In The Streets
Sikh-American civil rights advocate Valarie Kaur’s plea to her country in the times of Donald J. Trump, a powerful video
United We Dream‘s core principles for immigration reform.
Springfield (MA) Church Becomes Sanctuary for Undocumented Residents, by Erin Fitzsimmonds and Samara Abramson at WesternMassNews
When A Father Of 4 Is Detained By ICE While Dropping His Daughters Off At School, by Julia Wick at LAist
When Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border Was Not A Crime, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez at Yes Magazine
Achieving Health Equity, A Guide for Health Care Organizations, from Institute for Health Care Improvement
African Americans Don’t Sleep As Well As Whites, an Inequality Stretching Back To Slavery, by Benjamin Reiss at the LA Times
Black Gains in Life Expectancy, by Victor Fuchs at JAMA Network
Decolonizing Empathy, by Sherronda J. Brown at The Black Youth Project
Does Racism Play A Role in Health Inequities? from Institute for Health Care Improvement
Flint’s Lead-Poisoned Water’s Horrifyingly Large Effect on Fetal Deaths, by Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post
Focusing On Racial Disparities in Health Care by Shelby Ashline, pre-program article in Greenfield Recorder
Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does, by Jason Silverstein at The Atlantic
The Health of Young African American Men by Stephen A. Martin et al
How, As A Doctor, I’ve Contributed To The Racial Gap In Infant Mortality, by Nana Matoba at Statnews
How Health Care Can Accelerate Health Equity, from Institute for Health Care Improvement
Racism Is A Scourge On the Public’s Health, by Ellen Isaacs at MultiRacial Unity
Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives: The Role of Health Professionals, by Rachel R. Hardeman, Eduardo M. Medina, and Katy B. Kozhimannil at the New England Journal of Medicine
We’re Sick of Racism, Literally, by Douglas Jacobs at the New York Times
Why Does Health Equity Matter? from Institute for Health Care Improvement
7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real, from Ben & Jerry’s
9 TED Talks To Help You Understand Race in America
30 Articles by POC Everyone Should Read, from the Huffington Post
A Brief History of White Privilege, Racism, and Oppression in America, 5 minute film gives overview of how our government created institutional racism (an excerpt from Legalize Democracy)
The Electoral College Has Its Origins in Slavery, by David Love at the Atlantic Black Star
Five-Minute Film Festival: Talking About Race and Stereotypes, from Edutopia
A Forgotten History of How the U.S. Government Segregated America, an interview with Richard Rothstein on Fresh Air at NPR
Free PDF Books on Race, Gender, Sexuality, Class and Color, from Flannery O’Gonnor
Hate Map from the Southern Poverty Law Center
How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites, a short video from Fusion Comedy
The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes, video and article by Jenée Desmond-Harris and Estelle Caswell at Vox
New Voting Restrictions in Place for First Time in 2016, from the Brennan Center for Justice
Race and…: A series of videos from Race Forward exploring the ways race compounds and intersects with all the other issues faced by people of color.
Race: Are We So Different? is a very accessible 5 minute video on how “race” was created, from the American Anthropological Association.
A resource list from Coming To the Table – books, films, etc.
Should I Use The Adjective “Diverse”? by Alex Kapitan at RadicalCopyEditor.com
Talking About Race, a series on Bill Moyers’ website
Unequal: How People of Color Were Kept From Owning A Home, a video from The Root
What Is Systemic Racism? Nine short films on subjects like the wealth gap, education housing, incarceration… with Rinku Sen from Race Forward
When I See Them, I See Us – Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erekat, Annemarke Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornell West, & more. From Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Why “People of Color” May Not Be the Best Choice of Words, by Cameron G. at Everyday Feminism
Women of Color in Women’s History, a series from Daily Kos:
– Part 1: Native Americans
– Part 2: Latinas
– Part 3: African Americans
– Part 4: Asian and Asian-Pacific Americans
Gardening the Community, Springfield MA
Good Food & Good Jobs for All: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Racial and Economic Equity in the Food System, from Race Forward (formerly the Applied Research Center)
Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante, Vermont
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and The New Jim Crow by Leah Penniman at Yes Magazine
Why Food Belongs In Our Discussions of Race, by Kristin Wartman at Civil Eats
Climate change and communities of color: Anthony Rogers-Wright of Environmental Action speaks to the DNC ,from C-Span
Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism – links to many resources
Racism in the Air You Breathe: When/Where You Live Determines How Fast You Die, by Charles D. Ellison at The Root
Unist’ot’en Action Camp Against Pipelines
Why We Need Intersectionality to Understand Climate Change, by Elizabeth Walsh at Intercontinental Cry
Affirmative Action for White People: Comments by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Melissa Harris-Perry
America’s 100 Richest People Control More Wealth Than The Entire Black Population, by Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones
Considering the Legacy of Stolen Labor from Racism Review
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist
It Would Take 228 Years For Black Families To Amass The Wealth of White Families, by Kate Davidson at the Wall Street Journal
Racial wealth gap study by Pew Research Center
–Summary of article by Colorlines
The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters: Infographics & information from Black Left Unity
Unequal: How People of Color Were Kept From Owning A Home, a video from The Root
United For A Fair Economy‘s annual State of the Dream report:
– State of the Dream 2017: Mourning in America
– State of the Dream 2016: #BlackLivesMatter and the Economy
– State of the Dream 2015: Underbanked and Overcharged
– State of the Dream 2014: Healthcare for Whom?
– State of the Dream 2013: Housing, Asset Policy, and the Racial Wealth Divide, from United for a Fair Economy
– State of the Dream 2012 Looking Back, Looking Forward
– State of the Dream 2011, Austerity for Whom? by United for a Fair Economy
White supremacy and economics, an article from Colorlines.
A Letter To White Women Teachers: an urgent plea for change, by Laura Baker of Racial Justice Rising and Westfield State University (select Full Text PDF)
An End to the Privatization of Education and Real Community Control by Parents, Students and Community Members of Schools Including Democratic School Boards and Community Control of Curriculum, Hiring, Firing, and Discipline Policies, from A Vision for Black Lives
Calling Cops for Small Infractions Disproportionately Hurts Minority Students, by Anna Phillips at the Los Angeles Times
EmbraceRace: Online community about caring for and raising kids in the context of race
Facing History and Ourselves “We help students learn about hatred and bigotry so they can stop them from happening in the future.”
Five Ways to End the School To Prison Pipeline, from Fusion.net
The Gates Scholarship for exceptional, Pell-eligible, minority high school seniors
How Race-Related Trauma Hurts Black and Brown Youth in Schools, from Psychology Benefit Society
How To Talk To Kids About Racism: An Age by Age Guide, by Alex Mlynek at Today’s Parent
How To Talk To Kids About Racism in America – with a picture book by Colton Valentine at the Huffington Post
I Was A Racist Teacher And I Didn’t Even Know It, by Laurie Calvert at Education Post
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide For Educators and School Support Staff, from American Federation of Teachers
Picture Books That Teach Kids to Combat Racism, from What We Do All Day
A Punch In the Gut: Vancouver BC high school uses texts connecting Indigenous women to the word “squaw”, by Angela Sterritt at CBC News
Racial Profiling Starts in Preschool, by Kali Holloway at Alternet.org
Reading While White: Allies for Racial Diversity & Inclusion In Books For Children & Teens
Report Hate At School – report incidents to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Responding To Hate And Bias At School, a downloadable guide from Teaching Tolerance
Rethinking Schools – resources for educators
Speak Up At School, a guide for teachers from Teaching Tolerance
Teach Us All by Sonia Lowman is a documentary film + social movement, just released on Netflix
Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom
Teaching While White by Molly Tansy at Teaching Tolerance
Ten Books About Residential Schools To Read With Your Kids, by Chantelle Belrichard at CBC News
Ten Things Every White Teacher Should Know When Talking About Race, by Angela Watson at Cornerstone For Teachers
Two Schools In Mississippi and a Lesson on Race & Inequality in America, by Jamiles Lartey at The Guardian
Where Are the Teachers Of Color? by Motoko Rich in the New York Times
Why I Teach My 2-Year-Old About Race, by Michelle Acker Perez at the Washington Post
Black Men’s Sentences 20% Longer Than White Men’s for Similar Crimes, by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman at Huffington Post
The Counted: This interactive database of people killed by police in the U.S. is continually updated. From The Guardian
Court costs entrap nonwhite, poor juvenile offenders, by Erik Eckholm at the New York Times
Did Slavery End in 1865? a video with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative
First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence, by Zach Stafford at The Nation
Free online tool for police to determine if they are enacting bias in traffic stops, from RTI International
Infographic on Education vs. Incarceration
Lifesaving Advice From A Black Woman Held At Gunpoint By Police, by Tonya Jameson at The Undefeated
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Police Originated From Slave Catching Patrols, from NAACP
Series on mass incarceration from The Atlantic, September 2015
Slavery Never Died, It Reinvented Itself, an article about mass incarceration by Whitney Bens at The Atlantic
Slavery To Mass Incarceration, a 6 minute video with nice graphics by the Equal Justice Initiative
U.S. Police Chiefs Group Apologizes For Historical Mistreatment of Minorities, by Tom Jackman at the Washington Post
Van Jones: How Prisons Hurt Communities, from AJ+
Who’s Most Likely to be Killed by Police? by Simon Moya-Smith in Indian Country Today, via CNN
Ancestral Pride: Indigenous Reoccupation of Ancestral Lands
Church Considers Request to Rescind Doctrine of Discovery, by Paul Barnsley at APTN
Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual For Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century by Zig-Zag
Cultural Etiquette, A Guide for the Well Intentioned, a book by Amoja Three Rivers
The Decolonial Atlas: Reimagining The World
Decolonization, Indigineity, Education, and Society
For Indigenous Eyes Only: Beginning Decolonization by Waziyatawin & Michael Yellow Bird
A Gentle Reminder That Jesus Was A Brown Middle Eastern Refugee Who Would Not Have Voted for Trump, by Sara Benincasa at Medium.com
Groundwork for Change provides information to help non-Indigenous (settler) peoples grow relationships with Indigenous peoples that are rooted in justice and solidarity.
Hawaiians Fight for Sovereignity, a video from AJ+
Indigenous Systems Are Resistance, from Indigenous Motherhood
It’s no confederate flag, but the Massachusetts state seal is still pretty awful, by Yvonne Abraham at the Boston Globe
Native Hawaiian Woman Responds to Racist Caller, a video from Nation 19
On Indigenous People’s Day, from Awakening The Horse
An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous, by Adebayo Akomolafe at Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Returning Communities, A Reparative Justice Project of Land Return and Remembrance, from Awakening the Horse People
Sacred Stone Camp, website and Facebook
The Significance of Acknowledging the Indigenous Land We Stand On, by Ramna Shahzad at CBC News
Tribe Wants To Kick Rich People Out Of The Hamptons, by Justin Doolittle at Vice.Com
Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Why Racial Justice Work Needs To Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights by Rachel Kuo at Everyday Feminism
You Are Still Being Lied To: Howard Zinn’s “Columbus & Western Civilization,” from Unsettling America
The Model Minority Is a Lever of White Supremacy by Scot Nakagawa at Race Files
Racist U.S. court rulings deny citizenship to American Samoans, from Pema Levy at Mother Jones
The Real Story of Asians In America, by Zac Cheney-Rice at Identities.Mic
#ThisIs 2016: Asian Americans Respond, from the New York Times
And a response to #ThisIs2016: Open Letter To The New York Times Who Told Brown Asians They Don’t Matter, by EJR David at the Huffington Post
When My Japanese-American Family Was Treated As Less Than Human, by Mike Honda at Reuters
Yellowface & Racism Against Asians Is As Important As Other Prejudices, by Carmen Fishwick at The Guardian
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1619 Project — In 2019, the New York Times began a project to observe the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans to arrive in what would become the United States. Numerous articles have been published under this series.
African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres Over Last Century, by Leah Douglas at The Nation
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, an interactive map from Slate Black History Month
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Bino & Fino: Books Celebrating Black Boys
Black History in Greenfield, MA, by John Putnam, Abolitionist & The Father of Contradance
Black Privilege, a poem by Crystal Valentine
The Black Radical Tradition, a compilation of writings put together by libcom.org
Boston’s slavery ties deepened by findings at First Church in Roxbury by Tiana Woodard in the Boston Globe
Could Black People in the U.S. Qualify As Refugees? by Raha Jorjani in the Washington Post
Crossing the Waters Cultural Exchange Institute, building alliances between artists and others in the U.S. with groups in Africa
The Destruction of Black Wall Street by Josie Pickens at Ebony
Disowning Slavery, Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England 1780–1860, by Joanne Pope Melish
Equal Justice Initiative: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Found Voices, recordings of slave narratives, from ABC News, 1999
Forgotten Martin Luther King Quotes that Show He Was a Revolutionary, by Jenee Desmond-Harris on Vox
The Freedmen’s Bureau Project — African American Family Records From time of slavery free on line
Hey Black America, Let’s All Ditch Our Slave Names, by Zaron Burnett at The Bigger Picture
The Hidden History of Slavery in New England
How fugitive slaves kept their freedom deep in the swamps, by Richard Grant at the Smithsonian Museum
Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia — Using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice
New Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, AL Dedicated To Victims of White Supremacy, by at the New York Times
The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
National Museum of African American History & Culture
New database will document burial sites of U.S. slaves, by Allison Meier at Hyperallergic
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Race & Recovery 10 Years After Katrina, an infographic by Miriam Zoila Perez at Colorlines
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears: From the Tobacco South to the Cotton South, by Edward Ball at The Smithsonian
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a book by Dr. Robert H. Romer of Amherst, MA
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, by C.S. Manegold
Baltimore Racial Justice Action offers classes, learning groups, and educational events, and does consulting work (Baltimore, MD)
Center for the Study of White American Culture offers training on What White People Can Do About Racism and more
Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Stir Fry Seminars: training to “honor differences through dialogue and support communities to view diversity as a gift and a contribution”
Undoing Racism Organizing Collective, Springfield, MA
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