LIST: How to be anti-racist and support black orgs in the Triad

So you want to be anti-racist. As a wave of protests for black lives sweeps the nation and swells locally, the term “anti-racist” has become the signaling phrase for how white folks and allies should strive to be. Rather than simply being “not racist,” organizers urge folks to be “anti-racist” because the idea is that everyone is racist because we are part of a racist society, a racist world. So instead, we must actively combat racism, be anti-racist. Here are just a few tools to get you started. Some required reading, watching and ways to support local organizations that are doing the work.

WATCH

• 13^th (Netflix, Youtube)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• I Am Not Your Negro (Amazon)
• LA 92 (Netflix)

READ

(Support local bookstores and libraries if you can!)

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas In America by Ibram X. Kendi

• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Kid friendly texts:

• The Color of Us by Karen Katz
• The Skin I’m In by Pat Thomas
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

LISTEN

• 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones
• Code Switch by NPR
• Yo, Is This Racist by Earwolf
• Throughline by NPR
• Still Processing by New York Times
• Lynching in America by Equal Justice Institute
• Intersectionality Matters! by Kimberlé Crenshaw

BLACK ORGS/BUSINESSES

Greensboro/Guilford

• Black Dollar Blog — list of NC-based black businesses
• Greensboro Rising — a local group of black activists who have been organizing protests and action
• Anti-racist white folks Facebook group — a Greensboro-based group specifically for white people to get involved and learn more about how to be anti-racist
• Guilford For All — a multiethnic advocacy group that fights for racial equality, schools and more
• Greensboro Black Lives Matter — a Facebook group and organization that works to develop action locally

Winston-Salem/Forsyth

• Equity Forsyth’s anti-racist resource guide
• Forsyth County Bail Fund — a fund to people who are unable to afford bail gain their release from pre-trial detention through community donations
• Action4Equity — a community organization fighting for racial justice in schools
• Hate Out of Winston — Grassroots, anti-racist organization
• Forsyth Freedom Federation — Grassroots, anti-racist organization

Want more? Visit here for a more comprehensive anti-racist guide.