Minneapolis

"Minneapolis Uprising: Testimony and Timeline, May 25th -July 9, 2020" created by the Minneapolis Interview Project

"Ilham Omar on Minneapolis after George Floyd Protests, Criminal Justice Reform" by Madeline Deninger, Minnesota Daily, July 16, 2020

"The last days of May: A visual timeline of the George Floyd Protests" by Jack Rodgers and Andy Kosier, June 4, 2020

"A Black Photographer’s View of America’s Racial Reckoning" Photographs by Joshua Rashaad McFadden and Story by Kyle Almond, CNN.com

"Weeks later 500 people still face charges for peacefully protesting in Minneapolis" by Julia Lurie Mother Jones, July 15, 2020

“They Have Lost Control”: Why Minneapolis Burned by New York Times, July 3, 2020

"How Black Visions Collective is Sustaining a Revolution" by Amital Shaver, Minnesota Monthly, July 6 2020

"Local Professor's 'Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus' Offers a Historic Look at the Present" by Sarah Brumble, City Pages, June 16 2020

"Syllabus on the Minneapolis Uprising" by Adam Beldsoe, Department of Geography at University of Minnesota

"Race, Resistance, and Rage in the Midst of COVID-19" by Cawo Abdi and Saida Abdi, MinnPost, June 4 2020

"How Minnesotans Can Fight for Racial Justice" by Erik Tormoen, Minnesota Monthly, May 29, 2020

“Letter from Minneapolis: Why the Rebellion Had to Begin Here” by Su Hwang, Literary hub, June 8, 2020.

"Marches and Ralliese Continue Across Minnesota, Calling for Justice for George Floyd," MPR.com, June 7, 2020.

"We've Never Seen Protests Like These Before" by Douglas McAdam, Jacobin Magazine, June 20 2020

"Unraveling Racial Disparities in the Twin Cities" by Katelyn Vue, Minnesota Daily, June 26 2020

Atlanta

"Protesters march on Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed" by Christian Boone, photos by Steve Schaefer, AJC.com, July 11, 2020.

"A Black Photographer’s View of America’s Racial Reckoning" Photographs by Joshua Rashaad McFadden and Story by Kyle Almond, CNN.com

"Shooting, Protests Test Atlanta's Image of Black Prosperity" by Associated Press, USNews.com, June 20, 2020

"How to Celebrate Juneteenth in Atlanta and Beyond" NBA.com

"To End Violence, We Must Invest in Care, Not in Cops" by Jaeden Johnson, The Daily News, June 22 2020

“I’m president of Morehouse College. Here’s my advice to protesters” by David A. Thomas, Washington Post, June 22, 2020.

“As Hundreds of Students Join George Floyd Protests, Some Black Students Become Targets of Police” by Shailaja Neelakantan, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, June 1, 2020.

“Spelman Social Justice Fellow Reflects On Police Violence, Protests” by Lashawn Hudson, WABE where ATL meets NPR, June 5, 2020.

Washington D.C.

"The Diversity of the Recent Black Lives Matter Protests is a Good Sign for Racial Equity" by Dana Fisher, Brookings.edu, July 8, 2020

"Young Activists Find Their Voice Organizing Protests For Racial Justice In D.C," by NPR Weekend Edition, June 7, 2020

"Photos: 9th Straight Day of Racial Justice Protests in Washington DC" by various photographers, wjla.com, June 6, 2020.

“Howard Professors Break Down Issues Surrounding Police Violence and Public Protests” by Misha Cornelius, Howard University, June 3, 2020.

The Nation

After the George Floyd protests, what next for racial justice in the US? By Adwoa Bagalini, World Economic Forum, June 25, 2020.

American Racial Justice Movements Shape Change by Chris Simkins, VOA, June 11, 2020.

Discussing Race and America’s Protests From Abroad: What can be learned as the outrage over the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis goes global? By Damien Cave and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, June 5, 2020.

Forum, protest demand action for racial equity in Cedar Rapids KCRG, July 18, 2020.

In Pictures, A Racial Reckoning in America by various photographers, on CNN.com, July 9, 2020

Nextdoor tells community leads to allow Black Lives Matter discussions after exposé by Russell Brandom, The Verge, June 11, 2020.

The diversity of recent Black Lives Matter protests is a good sign for racial equity by Dana R. Fisher, Brookings, July 8, 2020.

Why Haven’t We Heard From Racial Justice Protesters in Their Own Words? By Habib Battah, JACOBIN, July 19, 2020.

The American Uprising of 2020: Black Lives Matter Grains Traction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, The Elephant, July 3 2020

Twin Cities

ACLU Racial Justice Program

The ACLU Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race.

Black Lives Matter - Minneapolis Facebook page

BLM’s mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes..and more.

Black Visions Collective

BVC aims to center their work in healing and transformative justice principles, intentionally develop the organization's core “DNA” to ensure sustainability…and more.

Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)

BOLD is a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the US to increase their alignment, impact and sustainability to win progressive change. BOLD carries out its mission through training programs, coaching and technical assistance for BOLD alumni and partners.

Blackout Collective

BlackOUT Collective is a radical full service direct action organization. We build organizations’ capacity to execute creative and effective direct actions in service of their organizing and advocacy work...and more.

Color of Change

Color of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. Color of Change leads campaigns that build real power for Black communities. We challenge injustice, hold corporate and political leaders accountable, commission game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advance solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.

Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC)

NOC is a member-led non-profit organization focused on the intersection of race, the economy and public policy

Racial Equity Action Support Network (REASN)

REASN brings together racial equity champions and advocates from community, nonprofit, and government organizations across Minnesota providing support.

Swing Left, Anti-Racism Action Hub

Organizations aiming to dismantle systemic racism in America...and more.

Take Action MN

Take Action Minnesota is a multi-racial people’s organization building power for a government and economy that works for all.

Women for Political Change

Women for Political Change (WFPC) holistically invests in the leadership and political power of young women and trans & non-binary individuals throughout Minnesota.

Atlanta

Black Lives Matter Atlanta

We are unapologetically Black in our positioning, and committed to collectively, lovingly and courageously working for freedom and justice for all Black people (and by extension all people) regardless....and more.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta strives to be an organization that is not only anti-racist but openly stands in support of our Black colleagues, donors, nonprofit partners and neighbors...and more.

Ending Racism Through Education

The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation provides individuals, teachers and classrooms with learning materials to help shed light on American history that is often either misunderstood or skipped over.

Racial Justice Action Center

RJAC’S mission is to engage in transformative organizing to build the grassroots leadership, power, and capacity of marginalized communities to win political, economic, and social transformation in the Atlanta Metro Area.

Racial Justice Action Center (RJAC)

RJAC builds the grassroots leadership, power, and capacity of marginalized communities to win political, economic, and social transformation in the Atlanta Metro Area...and more.

Southerners on New Ground

SONG envisions a sustainable South that embodies the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social, spiritual, and political relationships.

YWCA and Racial Justice

At YWCA, we demand a world of equity and human decency. We envision a world of opportunity. We commit ourselves to the work of racial justice. We will get up and continue to do the work until injustice is rooted out, until institutions are transformed, until the world sees women, girls, and people of color the way we do: Equal. Powerful. Unstoppable.

Washington D.C.

Anti-Racism at Fair Budget Coalition

The Fair Budget Coalition advocates for budget and public policy initiatives that address poverty and human needs in the District of Columbia.

NOPE DC Neighbors for Racial Justice

NOPE (Neighbors Organizing for Power and Equality) Neighbors takes action to (1) flip the presidency, Congress, and statehouses from Republican Red to Democratic Blue and to (2) support local (DC and Montgomery County) issues that threaten our nation’s democracy and social and racial justice.

Partners SURJ DC

SURJ DC focuses on how to best support Black- and People of Color-Led organizing work and follow their leadership.

Popular Democracy & Popular Democracy From The Ground Up Toolkit

The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.

Race Forward

Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.

Racial Equity in D.C.

Racial Equity in D.C. works toward racial equity in DC in many ways and believes that the government should fight racism, not enable it.

Racial Justice ACLU of D.C.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nationwide non-profit, non-partisan, membership organization devoted to ensuring free speech, equal rights, and other civil liberties.

The Equity Lab

The Equity Lab seeks to disrupt racial and ethnic inequity by engaging organizations in issues of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI)

Centers and Students Organizing for Social Justice Across 4 Campuses

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Amnesty International at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities

A University chapter of the world's largest human rights advocacy and awareness organization that is a non-partisan, non-political and non-religious group of activists working for the betterment of humans all over the world.

Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota (SDS)

Organizations that seek to create a sustained community of educational and political concern; one bringing together liberals and radicals, activists and scholars, students, and workers. It maintains a vision of a democratic society, where at all levels people have control of the decisions and resources that affect their lives.

Minnesota Justice Foundation Student Chapter at the University of Minnesota

Justice Foundation dedicated to providing an opportunity for students to meet and work together with other students on issues of social justice and public interest law...and more.

International Justice Mission at UMN

A group dedicated to ending slavery for good by partnering with the International Justice Mission (www.ijm.org) to advocate for the 40+ million slaves in the world today.

College Democrats at the University of Minnesota

The purpose of the College Democrats at the University of Minnesota is to promote the candidates and issues of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and to work for progressive social change on campus and at all levels of government.

White Coats for Black Lives

The group’s mission is to eliminate racial bias in the practice of medicine and recognize racism as a threat to the health and well-being of people of color.

Coalition for Progressive Change

A coalition of students building power in our community through grassroots organizing and activism.

Human Rights Student Association

An avenue for the U of M community to be able to learn and engage with human rights programming...and more.

Spelman College

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Collage division of the NAACP that focuses on encouraging students to get involved in social change...and more.

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center

An inaugural sites for the first Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Centers at Spelman.

National Action Network

One of the leading civil rights organizations in the Nation with chapters throughout the entire United States. Founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton, NAN works within the spirit and tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote a modern civil rights agenda...and more.

Howard University

Howard University College Democrats

A student-run organization dedicated to advancing the goals and ideals of the Democratic Party.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

NAACP to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

National Council of Negro Women

The National Council of Negro Women, Howard University Section is a section of the National Council of Negro Women Incorporated, which seeks to create a just society in which the quality of life is enhanced for all people...and more.

Morehouse College

The Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership

AYCGL is comprised of four interdependent institutes (areas of programming) designed to provide institutional, national and international leadership.

Leadership Studies Program

Students in this program will both study and emulate these exemplary leaders, both women and men, and they will seek inspiration and guidance from diverse leadership styles or models.

The Institute For Social Justice Inquiry And Praxis

The Institute for Social Justice Inquiry and Praxis serves as a social justice hub of AYCGL that utilizes "freedom" theories - in real time - in ways that teach, develop and implement solutions to social justice inequalities, particularly as they relate to peoples of Africa and its Diaspora.

The Institute For International And Experimental Education

The Institute focuses on co-curricular and integrative learning experiences designed to prepare students for global and domestic leadership.

Student Life or Office of Student Life

The Office of Student Life (OSL), supports the mission of Morehouse College and the retention, progression, and graduation of men by providing opportunities through registered student organizations and Student Life sponsored activities that are designed to cultivate learning, improve student development, provide leadership opportunities, compliment academic programs, and enhance character development.

Campus Activities

Student Leadership Program

The Office of Student Life aligns with the college’s mission to s to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.

Institute for Research, Civic Engagement, and Policy

An Institute whose primary mission is to bring together individuals and groups to study and develop solutions to complex social problems, this institute will lead investigation and problem-solving for the Andrew Young Center of Global Leadership.

Generations and Protest

Clay, Andreana. 2012. The Hip-hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics. N.Y.: N.Y.U. Press.

Clayton, Dewey M. 2018. “Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Two Social Movements in the United States.” Journal of Black Studies, v. 49, no. 5: 448–480.

Jones-Eversley, Sharon, et al. 2017. “Protesting Black Inequality: A Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter.” Journal of Community Practice, vol. 25, no. 3-4: 309-324.

Loder-Jackson, Tondra L. 2011. "Bridging the Legacy of Activism Across Generations: Life Stories of African American Educators in Post-Civil Rights Birmingham." The Urban Review vol. 43, no.2: 151-174.

Milkman, Ruth. 2017. "A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest." American Sociological Review vol.82, no.1: 1-31.

Theoharis, Jeanne. 2018. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Boston: Beacon Press.

Black Lives Matter and Contemporary Racial Justice Protests

Carruthers, Charlene A. 2018. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Racial Movements. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Cohen, Cathy J. and Sarah J. Jackson. 2016. “Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Cathy J. Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 41 #4: 775-792.

Davis, Angela. 2016. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago; Haymarket Books.

Estes, Nick. 2019. Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. London & New York: Verso Press.

Ince, Jelani, Fabio Rojas, and Clayton A. Davis. 2017. “The Social Media Response to Black Lives Matter: How Twitter Users Interact with Black Lives Matter Through Hashtag Use.” Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 40, #11: 1814-1830.

Kahn-Cullors, Patrisse and Asha Bandele. 2018. When They Call You a Terrorist. N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin.

LeBron, Christopher J. 2017. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ransby, Barbara. 2018. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimaging Freedom in the 21^st Century. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Rickford. R. 2016, January. “Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle. In New Labor Forum (Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 34-42) Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. 2016. From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation. Haymarket Books.

Taylor, Vanessa. June 8, 2020. “’Why Minneapolis?’: How Deep Surveillance of Black Muslims Paved the Way for George Floyd’s Murder.” The Progressive.

The History of Movements for Racial Justice

Allen, Robert L. 1969. Black Awakening in Capitalist America. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

Andrews, Kenneth T. 2004. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bell, Joyce. 2014. The Black Power Movement and American Social Work. N.Y.: Columbia University Press.

Biondi, Martha. 2012. The Black Revolution on Campus. Berkeley: U. of California Press.

Burns, Andrea A. 2013. From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Bush, Rod. 1999. We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century. N.Y.: New York University Press.

Gaines, Kevin. 1996. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press.

Geschwender, James A. 1977. Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers. N.Y.: Cambridge U. Press.

Gomes, Ralph and Linda Williams, eds., 1992. From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Long Struggle for African American Political Power. N.Y.: Greenwood Press.

Joseph, Peniel. 2006. The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. N.Y.: Routledge.

Jeffries, Judson L., ed. 2006. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press.

Johnson, Josie R. 2019. Hope in the Struggle. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

Kelly, Robin D.G. 1996. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. N.Y.: Free Press.

Kelly, Robin. 2002. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon.

Kendi, Ibram X. 2012. The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Education, 1965-1972. N.Y.: Springer.

Marable, Manning. 1984. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982. Jackson: U. Press of Mississippi.

McAdam, Doug. 1999. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press.

Morris, Aldon. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. N.Y.: Macmillan/Free Press.

Ogbar, Jeffrey. 2004. Black Power, Radical Politics, and African American Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press.

Robinson, Cedric. 1997. Black Movements in America. N.Y.: Routledge.

Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. 1987. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Rogers, Ibram. 2012. The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972. N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rojas, Fabio. 2010. From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press.

Von Eschen, Penny M. 1997. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957. Itacha, N.Y.: Cornell U. Press.

Williams, Mary Braddock, Rose Freeman Massey, and Horace Huntley. 2006. “Nerve Juice” and the Ivory Tower Confrontation in Minnesota: The True Story of the Morrill Hall Takeover (at the University of Minnesota). GrantHouse Publiishers.

Winant, Howard. 2001. The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II. N.Y.: Basic Books.

What are They Shouting About?: Racism and White Supremacy in America

Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow. N.Y.: The New Press.

Autry, Robyn. 2017. Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa. N.Y.: Columbia University Press.

Baldwin, James. 1993. The Fire Next Time. N.Y.: Vintage.

Blackmon, Douglas. 2008. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II. N.Y.: Doubleday.

Bittker, Boris. 2003. The Case for Black Reparations. Boston, MA: Beacon Press

Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. 1992 [1967] Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. N.Y.: Vintage Books.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 2014 (June). “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic.

Doane, Ashley W., and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. 2003. White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism. N.Y.: Routledge.

DuBois, W.E.B., 1903 [1989]. The Souls of Black Folk. N.Y.: Bantam.

Feagin, Joe R. 2001. Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. N.Y.: Routledge.

Feagin, Joe R. 2010. The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing. N.Y.: Routledge.

Glaude, Eddie S. Jr. 2016. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. N.Y.: Broadway Books.

Henry, Charles P. 2009. Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations. N.Y.: New York University Press.

Katznelson, Ira. 2005. When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20^thC. America. N.Y.: W.W. Norton.

King, Marin Luther Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. N.Y.: Harper Collins.

Steinberg, Stephen. 1995. Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy. Boston: Beacon Press.

The Theory and Practice of Protest

Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 1982. “Successful Rebellious Professionals: The Black Woman’s Professional Identity and Community Commitment.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 6 (3): 289-311.

Hobson, Janell, ed. 2017. Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Kendi, Ibram X. 2019. How to Be an Anti-Racist. N.Y.: One World.

Loeb, Paul Rogat. 2014. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizens Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear. N.Y.: Basic Books.

Meyer, David S. “How Social Movements Matter.” Contexts v.2, #4: 30-35.

Morris. Aldon & Jane Mansbridge. 2001 Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest. Chicago: U. o Chicago Press.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard Cloward. 1977. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. N.Y.: Patheon.

Scott, James C. 1990. Domination and the Art of Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Tufekci, Zeynap. 2017. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven: Yale University Press.