This resource is intended to deepen and expand our understanding of racism, anti-racism and allyship work. We encourage you to engage and be part of the change. This resource may be shared on social media and with your friends, family and colleagues.
Moving Forward Together
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Message From the Chair and Managing Partner
A message from our Chair and Managing Partner Pete Miller affirming our commitment to anti-racism.
What is an Ally?
An ally is someone who stands up and walks alongside a person experiencing oppression or discrimination, and pursue a common interest.
You may hear the phrase co-conspirator instead of ally. In some circles, individuals prefer the word co-conspirator to denote a more active, intentional engagement.
Featured Resources
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Watch: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
In this TED Talk, diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups.
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Listen: 1619, a Podcast From The New York Times
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
More Anti-Racism and Allyship Resources
- Kori S. Carew, Esq.'s Just Belonging: Finding the Courage to Interrupt Bias
- Bryan Stevenson’s We Need to Talk About an Injustice
- Clint Smith’s How to Raise a Black Son in America
- Baratunder Thurston’s How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time
- Vernā Myers' How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them
- Mellody Hobson’s Color Blind or Color Brave
- Luvvie Ajayi’s Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
- Peggy McIntosh’s How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
- When and How to Deal with Micro-aggressions
- How Racism and Microaggressions Lead to Worse Health
- Understanding Racial Trauma
- Rise in anti-Asian American hate crimes may lead to mental health crisis
- Inside the Mind of White America
- 12 Things to Do Instead of Calling the Cops
- Surviving and Resisting Hate: A Toolkit for People of Color
- Self-care Tips for Black People Who Are Feeling Overwhelmed by Racism
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- A Guide to How You Can Support Marginalized Communities
- 11 Terms You Should Know to Better Understand Structural Racism
- The Empathy Crisis of White America
- Prolific Racism Needs Complicit White People
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay—Chances Are They’re Not
- Maintaining Professionalism in The Age of Black Death is....A Lot
- U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
- Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize it Exists: How to Be an Antiracist
- NY Times Magazine: The 1619 Project
- Many Americans have no friends of another race: poll
- Instead of More Conversations About Race, We Need More Cross-Racial Friendships:
- You And Me Will Never Part: A Study of Black Women’s Best Friendships
- She’s white. I’m black -- how our friendship survived real talk about race
- How to Be a Better Friend to Black Women
- ‘Uncommon Bonds’ Explores What It Takes for Women to Have Real Friendships Across Race
- Can black women and white women be true friends?
- The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Women
- Mary Frances Winters, "Black Fatigue"
- James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”
- Austin Channing Brown, “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness”
- Nick Adams, “Making Friends with Black People”
- Michelle Alexander, “The New Jim Crow”
- Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy”
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race”
- Jim Wallis, “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America”
- Dr. Joy DeGruy, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” and “What Does it Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy”
- Joseph Barndt, “Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America”
- Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati, “Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
- Tanner Colby, “Some of My Best Friends are Black”
- Jacqueline Goldsby, “A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature”
- bell hooks, “Killing Rage: Ending Racism”
- Debby Irving, “Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race”
- Frances Kendall, “Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race”
- Ibram X. Kendi, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” and “How to Be an Antiracist”
- Catrice Jackson, 30 Day Crash Course for White Women
- Janet Mock, “Redefining Realness”
- Trevor Noah, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”
- Ijeoma Oluo, “So You Want to Talk About Race”
- Deborah L. Plummer, PHD, “Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships”
- Layla Saad, “Me and White Supremacy”
- Vron Ware and Mikki Kendall, “Beyond the Pale: White, Women, Racism and History”
- Isabel Wilkerson, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”
- Tim Wise, “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”
- Becoming, The Netflix Documentary (Nadia Hallgren)
- Strong Island (Yance Ford)
- I am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Jenner Furst)
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
- The 1965 Debate between James Baldwin and William Buckley
- 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
- 13th (Ava DuVernay)
- Selma (Ava DuVernay)
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
- The Central Park Five (Ken Burns)
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
- Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
- Live Another Day
- Detox Local
- Asian Hate and the COVID-19 Pandemic Resources
- Stop the Hate campaign from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
- Toolkit from NYC Mayor and NY Human Rights Commission
- A Guide to Allyship
- Leadership with Empathy and Allyship Series
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases “Talking About Race” Web Portal
- Antiracism Project
- H.R. 40 – Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
- Corporate Statement Regarding Police Brutality
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Racism
- Showing Up for Racial Justice: How to Show Up
- Showing Up for Racial Justice: Educational Toolkits
Charities & Fundraisers
“Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.”
BOLD is a national leadership training program designed to help rebuild Black (African-American, Caribbean, African, Afro-Latino) social justice infrastructure in order to organize Black communities more effectively and re-center Black leadership in the US social justice movement.
Support EJI’s efforts to combat racial injustice in the US. Your contribution is critical to our efforts to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the US, challenge racial and economic injustice and protect the basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law works to protect access to democracy every day. Their election protection coalition is the nation’s largest, nonpartisan voter protection program.
Through litigation, advocacy and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. Donations to this legal organization go toward helping win landmark legal battles, protect voters across the nation and advance the cause of racial justice, equality and an inclusive society.
A Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.
Southerners on New Ground is a regional queer liberation organization made up of people of color, immigrants, undocumented people, people with disabilities, working class and rural and small town and LGBTQ+ people in the South.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is the nation’s oldest, largest and most diverse civil and human rights coalition.
The campaign is raising money to offer free therapy sessions for black women and girls.