HOW WHITE PEOPLE CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT DISRUPTING RACISM

Via Forge.  Don’t Be an Ally, Be an Accomplice Real advocacy and comfort rarely go hand in hand By Willie Jackson Nov 13, 2019 Illustration: Karen Yoojin I sometimes introduce myself as a “professional African American” when I travel the country to give ally skills workshops — often while looking out at a sea of white faces. It’s … Read More

Via HuffPost.  11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In The Wake Of Police Brutality Want to end police brutality against Black people? To paraphrase Angela Davis, it’s not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be antiracist. By Brittany Wong Let’s face it: We’ve become depressingly rote in our … Read More

Via the New York Times.  Everyone’s an Antiracist. Now What? Recognizing that Black people deserve dignity isn’t progress. By Erin Aubry Kaplan Contributing Opinion Writer The new unbridled enthusiasm for the cause of Black lives reminds me of the Dr. Seuss fable “Horton Hears a Who.” A kindly elephant named Horton becomes aware of a whole … Read More

Via University of California Press.  The Next American Revolution Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Foreword by Danny Glover and Afterword with Immanuel Wallerstein by Grace Lee Boggs (Author), Scott Kurashige (Author), Danny Glover (Foreword) About the Book The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer’s vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, … Read More

Via New Jim Crow.  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness “One of the most influential books of the last 20 years.” —Chronicle of Higher Education “Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of … Read More