A message from The Storm Podcast.
Referenced Suggested Material:
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
mass incarceration of Black Americans making them second class citizens by classifying them as felons
How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
how to actively be an anti-racist and work towards an anti-racist society
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
free e-book (from Haymarket publishers, by a collection of writers) about policing in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities
Race for Profit - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
she's a great writer for white feminists or capitalist feminist to read
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Kiese Laymon
essayist
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
poet
List of free PDFs by subject (resource from BLM site)
Films:
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin documentary
Whose Streets?
Ferguson protests documentary
Just Mercy
Based on the book by civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, the story follows Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) as he works to free Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) from death row after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Free for the month of June.
