KEY ISSUES
RACIAL INJUSTICE
POLICE BRUTALITY
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
BLACK IMMIGRATION
ECONOMIC INJUSTICE
LGBTQIA+ AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION
VOTING RIGHTS + SUPPRESSION
FOLLOW BLACK ORGANIZERS
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Immediate Actions To Take: -
- Call Your Reps to Support HR. 40: Commission to Develop Reparations Proposal
- Call Your Reps to Support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (passed house)
- Send a message to your members of Congress urging them to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
- Sign the petition — Tell President Biden to grant clemency to 25,000.
- Sign the petition — People's Bailout Petition
- Sign the 15 Percent Pledge — a pledge for major retailers to commit a minimum of 15% of their shelf to Black-owned Businesses.
- Support The BREATHE Act — To support the bill, sign up to become a community co-sponsor here.
- Help Dismantle the '94 Crime Bill
- Shop, follow, like + support Black-owned businesses. Don't know where to start or why this matters? Learn more with Melanade Stand.
- Boycott companies that use prison labor. Complete list here.
Organizations To Support + Follow:-
- 15 Percent Pledge
- ACLU
- Black Feminist Future
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Youth Project 100
- Black Women Radicals
- Color of Change
- Fair Fight
- Higher Heights
- Know Your Rights Camp
- Melanade Stand
- Movement For Black Lives
- NAACP
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women
- National Lawyers Guild
- Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up: -
- Start here —
- Anti-Racism Resources
- #BlackTransLivesMatter Actions + Resources for Solidarity
- #BlackIslamSyllabus
- #FergusonSyllabus
- Articles —
- 97 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
- Abolition 101: Abolitionist Reading Database
- Abolish Prison Labor — Anti-Racism Daily
- Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Calls For Defunding of Police Departments by Rebekah Sager — Hollywood Reporter
- Black Lives Matter May Be The Largest Movement in U.S. History — NYTimes
- From Words to Action: Showing Up for Black Trans Women — TGIJP
- How Sylvia Rivera Created the Blueprint for Transgender Organizing by Raquel Willis — OUT Magazine
- How We Can End Violence Against Trans Women of Color by Raquel Willis — Out Magazine
- Reparations Toolkit — M4BL
- Resources for Accountability and Action for Black Lives
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- Books —
- A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown
- Ain't I Woman? by bell hooks
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Angela Davis
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
- Black On White: Black Writers On What It Means to Be White by David Roediger
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, + the Prison-Industrial Complex by Julia Sudbury
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That The Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi’s
- How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Passing by Nella Larson
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- so you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
- The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Mills
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
- The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo
- Why We Can’t Wait by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
- You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
- Watch —
- Start here: Black Lives Matter x Netflix
- 13th — HBO
- Becoming — Netflix
- Beyonce's Black Is King — Disney+
- Beyonce's Lemonade — Available for Rent
- Black Futures: An Ode to Freedom Summer — Vimeo via The Movement for Black Lives
- Dear White People — Netflix
- Disclosure Doc — Netflix
- Get Out — Netflix
- Hidden Figures — Netflix
- I Am Not Your Negro — Netflix
- Insecure — HBO
- Just Mercy — Netflix
- Ken Burns: The Central Park Five
- Malcolm X — Netflix
- Moonlight — Netflix
- Selma — Netflix
- The Hate U Give — Hulu
- The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X — YouTube
- Treme — HBO
- When They See Us — Netflix
IN SUMMARY:
Choose to support racial justice every day.
Educate yourself.
Donate money (if you can).
Have difficult conversations.
Take political action.
Be actively anti-racist.
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2022 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
Last updated Mar 18, 2022.