Maggie Schreiner
This image comes from our collection of photographs from the Brooklyn Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). In the spirit of the work that CORE and similar organizations have done over many decades, today we are using this space to highlight campaigns, organizations, resources, and books where you can learn more, donate, and get involved with the movement for racial justice.
Donate and Get Involved:
Communities United for Police Reform
https://www.changethenypd.org/
** Check out the full list of campaign members to see the many organizations doing this work!
National Bail Fund Network
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory
Movement for Black Lives Mutual Aid Resources
https://m4bl.org/mutual-aid/
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
https://www.naacpldf.org/
North Star Let Us Breathe Fund
https://northstarfund.org/about/let-us-breathe-fund/
Suggested Reading:
The End of Policing, by Alex S. Vitale (Verso Books) Free e-book download!
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (Viking)
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (Penguin Random House)
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie (Beacon Press)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander (The New Press)
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele (St. Martin’s Press)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press)
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