Allyship Part 3: Education & Action

Here are some of our suggested resources for educating yourself and your peers on how to become more actively anti-racist and to use your voice in honest allyship. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all valuable resources, and we encourage you to check these out as well as many others available to you to continue the education and action required to combat racial injustice.

Books

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

• The Meaning of Life by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis

• The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Films

• Hair Love (2019) - Won Best Animated Short Film - available on Youtube

• 13th (2016) - available on Netflix

• Just Mercy (2019) - available on Amazon Prime Video

• When They See Us (2019) - available on Netflix

• Freedom Riders (2010) - available on Amazon Prime Video

• Whose Streets? (2017) - available on Hulu

Activists to Follow

• Ibram X. Kendi

• Heather McGhee

• Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

• Reni Eddo-Lodge

• Layla F. Saad

• Afua Hirsch

• Amanda Seales

• Aja Barber

• Mireille Cassandra Harper

Places to Donate

• The Innocence Project

• The Bail Project

• Black and Brown Founders

• R.E.S.I.S.T.

• Black Girls Code

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Color of Change Education Fund

• Campaign Zero

• Equal Justice Initiative

• Third Wave Fund

• The Marshall Project