Resources for Racial Justice

National Donations:

• ACLU

• Black Future’s Lab

• NAACP Legal Defense And Educational Fund Inc

• Black Vision Collective

• Race Forward

• Black Lives Matter

Local Donations:

• People’s Breakfast Oakland

• Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund 

• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights 

• Oakland Anti-Terror Police Project

Volunteering Opportunities:

• Black Organizing Project

• SURJ National Chapters

• Join the Bay Area Legislative List

• Volunteer for Center for Racial Justice

Education:

• Racial Equity Resources by W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• Powell's Books List: Talking to Children about RaceBelow are resources and links with a focus on helping parents open and sustain healthy conversations about race while modeling being lifelong learners. 

• Talking Race with Young Children. NPR, April 2019. This 20 minute podcast and accompanying resources gives practical tips to handle conversations about race, racism, diversity and inclusion, even with very young children. 

• George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? - USA Today, May 31, 2020. An interview with Beverley Daniel Tatum, psychologist and author of Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversation About Race. The interview describes appropriate ways to talk to children of all ages about racism and police brutality. 

• Talking to Children After Racial Incidents, by Howard Stevenson, a clinical psychologist at Penn Graduate School of Education.

• Resilience: Uplifting Youth Through Healthy Communication About Race - American Psychological Association, Resources for Parents. 

• Anguish and Action - Obama Foundation. Provides informative reports and action ideas for police reform and social justice.

• Teaching Tolerance. The Race and Ethnicity Page has useful resources for teachers and caregivers to guide conversations around white privilege, economic inequality, mass incarceration, and the complexities of identity.

• Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the U.S. and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies and the media. 

• Black Lives Matter Resource Series by Oakland Public Library, including a resource list of books, articles, and multimedia in Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: A List for Parents, Educators, and Caregivers

These resources provide education through the eyes of the most impacted:

• Black parents describe “The Talk” they give to their children about police

• Black Parents Know about “The Talk” – White Parents, It’s Your Turn

• Raising Race Conscious Children

• A Conversation on Race - A series of short films about identity in America

• The 1619 Project - The New York Times Magazine

• Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• How To Help Children Deal with Ambiguous Loss. (Boston University). Tips for helping children cope with uncertainty and unresolved loss of rituals, celebrations and ways to say goodbye

Social Media Leadership: 

• Austin Channing Brown @AusinChanningBrown 

• Rachel Cargle @Rachel.Cargle

• Ijeo Maoluo @Ijeomaoluo

• Ibram X. Kendi @Ibramxk

• Tarana Janeen @Taranajaneen

• Black Lives Matter @Blklivesmatter

Sign a Petition: 

• #JusticeforFloyd: Demand the officers who killed George Floyd are charged with murder by Color of Change

• Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus by Black Lives Matter

 Other: 

• Black-owned Restaurants in the SFBA by Soleil Ho