This page is dedicated to a variety or resources and information to keep you informed and aid you in the call to action!
Here are some select articles / information that were used as inspiration as our ensemble was in development.
Each title include a link to the source article.
Below each article is a quote and/or summary to provide context.
"An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally."
How White Americans Can Fight Racism
“I am not interested in white allies. What we need are co-conspirators,” Feminista Jones, a 36-year-old social worker and writer shouted into a bullhorn. Her solemn audience cheered her on. “The definition of ally-ship is to mutually benefit and support. Black people are not obligated to provide support to people who are dominant,” Jones said. “We are not working together on a mutual goal. My goal is to live. You don’t have that same goal.”
Ally or Co-Conspirator? What it Means to Act In Solidarity
"Allyship today, whether it’s with Black Lives Matter or LGBTQ rights or other movements, is often characterized by profuse emotional outpouring yet severe inaction...“Co-conspiracy is about what we do in action, not just in language,” says Garza, “It is about moving through guilt and shame and recognizing that we did not create none of this stuff. And so what we are taking responsibility for is the power that we hold to transform our conditions.”
Making the Transition from Ally to Co-Conspirator
“To be a white co-conspirator means to deliberately acknowledge that people of color are criminalized for dismantling white supremacy. It means we choose to take on the consequences of participating in a criminalized act, and we choose to support and center people of color in the reproductive justice movement”.
Black Queer Feminism as Praxis: Building an Organization and a Movement
"Bonsu offers an organizational case analysis of the theory and practice of Black Queer Feminism in transformative organizing and movement building."
25 Black Queer Books to Honor Protests and Pride Month
"We have compiled an anti-racist reading list by, about, and for Black LGBTQ people. We ask that you join in the fight against white supremacy and help us honor the lives of Nina Pop, Tony McDade, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others by listening to and learning from Black queer voices. If you can, purchase these titles at a Black-owned bookstore near you."
Building Movements Through a Black, Queer, Feminist Lens
"In this interview, author and organizer Charlene Carruthers discusses what it means to use a Black, queer, feminist lens to build movements, and how this lens is central to organizing effectively for collective liberation."
Guide to Land Acknowledgements
Guidelines created by Engineers Canada that serve as a hub for understanding the value of conducting land acknowledgements, as well as tips, templates, and protocols for how to do a land acknowledgement at meetings.
Online Land Acknowledgement Resources
Various resources from The University of British Columbia on conducting land acknowledgements in a virtual context.
The Deleted Passage of the Declaration of Independence
The original text of the passage that Thomas Jefferson wrote did not include in the Declaration that mentioned slavery.
Monticello Exhibit in Virginia
A look at the life of Thomas Jefferson, most notably his relationship with Sally Hemings. It's the most streamlined and digestible look at the development of their relationship, including timeline of events, family tree and the attempt to balance the narrative of the true nature of their relationship.
CBS Morning Show - Video: 6 minute segment
Chronicles reunion at the Monticello estate of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings descendants.
The Oprah Winfrey Show (1998) - Video: 41 minutes
A look at how the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings have come together to reckon with their history.
The following is a select list of national organizations who provide support to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.
Here are some great resources to get started on your journey of activism and support.
This is by no means an exhaustive list!
If you know or are a part of an organization that would love to be included in this list, please email rewritingthedeclaration@gmail.com.
Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)
Provides research and communications infrastructure and strategic support for local organizations working on campaigns to win structural change by directly taking on the financial elite that are responsible for pillaging communities of color, devastating working class communities, and harming our environment.
American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA)
The association of professionals managing affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity and other human resource programs.
American Association of People with Disabilities
A cross-disability member organization dedicated to ensuring economic self-sufficiency and political empowerment for the more than 56 million Americans with disabilities.
The Arc
Promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Center for Media Justice (CMJ)
Develops and teaches creative, effective, and participatory communications and media activism strategies that support the fight for racial justice, economic equity, and human rights.
Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
A training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color to build a social justice movement led by people of color.
Color of Change
The nation’s largest online civil rights organization building grassroots political power for African-Americans and working for social change for all people.
Direct Action and Research Training Center (DART)
A network of 22 grassroots, nonprofit, congregation-based community organizations working to win justice on issues facing their communities.
Disability Rights Advocates (DRA)
Non-profit law firm dedicated to securing the civil rights of people with disabilities.
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
The largest national lesbian and gay political organization working to ensure the basic equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Works to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and those with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR)
A coalition of more than 200 diverse national organizations working to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States.
National Alliance of Native Americans Longhouse, Inc
Organization that promotes the interest/welfare of American Indians - programming primarily communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC)
Dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
Works to advance the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.
National Center for Transgender Equality
The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
National Congress of American Indians
The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.
National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)
Works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people through leadership, education and outreach, membership services, public policy initiatives, advocacy, and enforcement.
National LGBTQ Task Force
The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. We are building a future where everyone can be free to be their entire selves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we’ve made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go. That’s why the Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you. Join us!
National Museum of the American Indian
A diverse and multifaceted cultural and educational enterprise, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is an active and visible component of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex. The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC)
Advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being.
OutRight Action International
Works to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities around the world subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbian & Gays (PFLAG)
Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families, and friends through support to cope with an adverse society, education to enlighten an ill-informed public, and advocacy to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
People's Action
Coordinator of hundreds of local community organizationsin in 29 states fighting for community over greed, justice over racism, and people and planet over big corporations. A merger of 5 groups: National People’s Action (NPA), USAction, Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), the Institute for America’s Future, and the Center for Health Environment and Justice (CHEJ).
Political Research Associates
A research center that works to facilitate public understanding of the threat posed to human rights by oppressive and authoritarian right-wing movements in the United States
Race Forward
A public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism (it publishes Colorlines).
Soulforce
Works for freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.
Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Policy
Advances sexual orientation law and public policy through rigorous, independent research and scholarship, and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policy makers, media, and the public.