Kimberly Jones: How Can We Win: Kimberly Jones gives a powerful, eloquent speech that needs to be heard by everyone, she explains in detail why this is happening (racism across 450 years) and the difference between protesting, rioting and looting in 2020.

Prof Kimberly Crenshaw on Intersectionality: Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

Race Forward: "What Is Systemic Racism?" is an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality… yes, systemic racism is really a thing. “

A Dialogue with bell hooks and Dr. Cornel West: A heart centered conversation by two great Black liberation scholars and activists, bell hooks and Dr. Cornel West. They discuss everything from liberatory spirituality, to academia, to music, to criticality.

Article to read for JEDI learning:

Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

Distmantiling Anti-Blackness Together

Allyship and Accomplice

How to Challenge White Supremacy Through Rest

White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh

Dear Well Meaning Liberals: How We’re Complicit In White Supremacy

Prejudice, Discrimination, Oppression Comics

INDIGENOUS ACTION: Accomplice not allies

Race Issues: a comic series that highlights the impact of microaggressions

Books to read for JEDI Learning:

The Abolitionist Handbook by Patrissse Cullors

The Four Pivots Reimaging Justice, Reimaging Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright

Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong

Fumbling through Repair by Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan

My Grandmother’s Hands: Healing Racialized Trauma for Black, Police, and White Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

When They Call you a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

March - the comic series by John Lewis

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde: Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by PDF

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Native Land Finder: a website run by the nonprofit organization Native Land Digital to provide resources, community, and mapping tools to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world.

People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: Through Undoing Racism/Community Organizing Workshops, technical assistance and consultations, The People’s Institute helps individuals, communities, organizations and institutions move beyond addressing the symptoms of racism to undoing the causes of racism so as to create a more just and equitable society. This is a great resource when organizations are looking for additional and external resources to undo racism.

Good Good Good: This website lists out more ways to learn through podcasts, books, film, TV, organizations, and people to follow. This is for folks that are just getting started in their anti-racism work and want to deepen their awareness around social justice.

Justice in June: A community driven resource guide that all started with a google doc! This resource gives a comprehensive overview of additional resources to utilize in order to be a better ally to the Black community. They’ve even created content you can take on in 10, 25, and 45 minute intervals of learning.

artEquity BIPOC Surviving PWI Resources: A free online series created by Black, Indigenous, People of Color for Black, Indigenous, People of Color who survived and are surviving Predominantly White Institutions. Join the artEquity community as we share strategies for interfacing with white leadership; what to do when sh*t goes down. 2021 dates TBD.

The American Theatre was Killing Me: Lauren E. Turner recounts her courageous healing journey from the depths of sustained racialized trauma working in a New Orleans theatre to the launching of her own theatre company, No Dream Deferred, into its first season this fall. Given the persistence of racialized trauma in white theatre institutions, we interrogate how—and if—people of color feel they have a place within them.

Continued Learning: “Challenging White Supremacy through Rest”

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