I hope this information is helpful and insightful, and I apologize if we forgot to cover some essential bases. There’s so much history about this important issue that people must be educated on during these trying times.
Ways to help support the BLM movement:
Ways you can help: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Barack Obama's post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5X31igzCL/
Chris Cuomo's post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAwUrNQJ_aO/
Georgetown Law link History: https://www.zinnedproject.org/
If you want to find specific articles about black American history I linked some below.
Articles (all found from the Zinn Education Project):
Tulsa Massacre: https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/burning-tulsa-the-legacy-of-black-dispossession/
Segregation: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/color-line-colonial-laws
The Necessity to Teach Reconstruction: https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/when-black-lives-mattered/
Housing Segregation: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/how-red-lines-built-white-wealth-color-of-law-lesson
Teaching SNCC: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-sncc
Books:
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Story-Justice-Redemption/dp/08129849
Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au's Teaching for Black Lives: https://www.rethinkingschools.org/books/title/teaching-for-black-lives
Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve's Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: https://www.audible.com/pd/Never-Caught-the-Story-of-Ona-Judge-Audiobook/150827830X?
Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Antiracism-National-Award-winning-Beginning/dp/0316453692
Blair Imani's Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Our-Way-Home-Migration-ebook/dp/B07QWH7YXR
Podcasts:
1619 Project (from New York Times)
Code Switch (from NPR)
School Colors (from NPR)
Uncivil (from Gimlet Media)
Scene on Radio (from John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika)
Justice in America (from Josie Duffy Rice with guest hosts Darnell Moore, Donovan X. Ramsey, Derecka Purnell, and Zak Cheney Rice)
