Educate

Donating and signing petitions is a fantastic way to support the BLM movement, but just as important is understanding the history, context, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it.

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#educate has a fantastic set of resources to learn about the BLM movement, and past that seek out black voices, stories and creators - none of the authors of this site are black, and as such our job is not to tell our stories but to amplify black voices.

First: Emmanuel Acho on Twitter has a video, and hopefully a series, titled 'Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,' which is a concise breakdown of the situation and essential watching.

An incomplete list of other creators:

Black YT creators:

• Trihex

• Marques Brownlee

• CoryxKenshin

Books/Authors:

• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

• A Terrible Thing To Waste, Harriet A. Washington

• The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale (Free ebook)*

• From The War on Poverty to the War On Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Elizabeth Hinton

• Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Politics, Darryl Pinckney

Other Media:

• IGN - Movies and Shows about racial injustice

• NYT's 1619 Project Podcast

*While not a black creator, Vitale has spent the last 25 years researching and writing about policing, and serves both as Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and on the New York State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights.