RESOURCES to DO THE WORK
Excited that you are here to learn! You have the power to use your privilege to assure Black Lives Matter in America. These resources will be updated from time to time. Make sure you follow my Instagram and join the Change Cadet Action Network for more resources and prompts to do the work.
-Dr. Akilah Cadet
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Comprehensive History of Black America and White Supremacy
How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
How a Presidential Rally Turned Into a Capitol Rampage
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
The Modern White Power Movement: A short NPR podcast episode where they examine the evolution of the modern white power movement
Black Neighborhoods and Wealth Taken From Us Due to White Supremacy
The Freedman's Savings Bank: Good Intentions Were Not Enough; A Noble Experiment Goes Awry
Tulsa Black Wall Street Massacre
Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’ Flourished as a Self Contained Hub in Early 1900s
The Massacre of Black Wall Street (Watchmen Style)
Seneca Village
The Lost Neighborhood Under New York’s Central Park
Forty Acres and a Mule
Forty Acres and a Mule: The order by General Sherman was a promise never kept
What was Sharecropping?
Overlooked No More: Brad Lomax, a Bridge Between Civil Rights Movements (Published 2020)
How to End White Supremacy in the Workplace
Policing Upholds White Supremacy
NPR's History Podcast 'Throughline' Explores Policing In America
Equal Justice Initiative: Policing in America
Why is it So Hard to Hold Police Accountable? ACLU Policing Policy Advisor Paige Fernandez explains why it’s so hard to hold police accountable
The History of Police in the United States: In this NPR interview, Dr. Keisha Blain speaks briefly about the history of policing in the United States and the relationship with the Black community
Where to Shop and Support Black Businesses to End White Supremacy
Black Parade by Beyoncé (Directory)
100 Influential Black Voices (Directory)
Unoeth (As seen on HBO’s Insecure)
Ways to DO THE WORK to End White Supremacy
Gatheround Anti-Racism Workshop
Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism
Cultural Appropriation Was Always Inexcusable
‘Am I racist?’ You may not like the answer
Daily Show Interview with Mary Frances Berry on the Power of Protesting
12 Ways You Can Help Eradicate White Supremacy
Privilege: Being aware of the privileges we have is also important to this journey
VOTE to End White Supremacy
Post Beyond the Black Square to End White Supremacy
Post Beyond the Black Square to End White Supremacy
Special Report on Brands and Racial Justice in America
Podcasts so You Can…Yes You Guessed It, End White Supremacy
9 Podcasts on Racism: Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement
Language Matters in Dismantling White Supremacy
Language matters: The shift from ‘slave’ to ‘enslaved person’ may be difficult, but it’s important
Building Equity and Inclusion Through the Power of Language
Why the term ‘BIPOC’ is so complicated, explained by linguists
Yes, There’s a Difference Between ‘BIPOC’ and ‘POC’ - Here’s Why It Matters
Latine vs. Latinx: Latine Vs. Latinx: What They Mean, Why They Matter
Microaggressions
BIPOC or POC? A short video from NPR explaining what the term "people of color" means to different people
Health Disparities Caused by White Supremacy
Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Disproportionately Impact Historically Excluded Communities
Reproductive Justice for Disabled Women: Ending Systemic Discrimination
Is bias keeping female, minority patients from getting proper care for their pain?
Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary widely by race and ethnicity
How We Fail Black Patients in Pain
How the stress of racism can harm your health—and what that has to do with Covid-19
The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along
The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women
Tuskegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study
How medical bias against black people is shaping Covid-19 treatment and care
Black Doctor Dies of Covid-19 After Complaining of Racist Treatment
Achievements in Medicine from Black People
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective: Chronology of Achievements
White Supremacy in Schools
What to Watch to End White Supremacy
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Black Panther
Wakanda Forever
Passing
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Afterschock
What Beyoncé Taught Me About Race
The Trauma of Systemic Racism is Killing Black Women
Moonlight
Judas and the Black Messiah
One Night in Miami
What to Read to End White Supremacy
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They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Out of the House of Bondage by Thavolia Glymph
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Be Anti-Racist to End White Supremacy
Patriarchy & White Supremacy
The four women - and 37 words - that changed the world 50 years ago
How 50 years of Title IX have changed American sports
‘We are not surprised:’ Women of color say the courts have never served their communities
On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights
Abortion is also about racial justice, experts & advocates say
How Black women will be especially affected by the loss of Roe
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda
‘My transplant opened my eyes to the need for orgran donors’ : essay on transplant equity
The Grammys Are Built on a Delusion
Disability & White Supremacy
Abilitylinks.org : A Website for Job Seekers with Disabilities and Inclusive Employers
Census.gov: Anniversary of Americans With Disabilities Act: July 26
Mashable: You should be following more disability activists. Here’s where to begin
Stanford: Office of Accessible Education - National Disability Organizations and Resources
NIH study suggests women with disabilities have higher risk of birth complications and death