Black Lives Matter and anti-racism resources

These lists are not exhaustive. They have been compiled by members of the School of Nursing Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity Committee as a starting point for anti-racist education for School of Nursing community members and the general public. If you have further questions, concerns, or additions, please contact Roni Lafky at lafky002@umn.edu. 

Educational Materials 

Books

• “Black Feminist Thought” by Dr. Patricia Hill Collins

• “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower” by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon

• “How To Be An Antiracist” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

• “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

• “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad

• “Raising Our Hands” by Jenna Arnold

• “Redefining Realness” by Janet Mock 

• “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde

• “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

• “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

• “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin

• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
  by Michelle Alexander

• “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”
  by Dr. Grace Lee Boggs

• “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

• “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

• “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color” edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Dr. Ira Katznelson

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

• “Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence” by Dr. Derald Wing Sue 

• “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem

• “Between the World and Me” by Ta-nehisi Coates

• “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A. Washington

• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Sklott

• “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity” by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris M.D.

• “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

• “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison 

• “A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota” by Sun Yung Shin

• “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities” by Dr. Craig Steven Wilder

Articles

• “I can’t breathe”: A call for antiracist nursing practice by Dr. Kara Koschmann

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 2020)

• “Mentoring a New Generation of Activists" by Barbara Ransby | “Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement” (2003)

• “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 2011)

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 2019)

• “Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups” by Craig Elliott, PhD (2016)

• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh | Peace and Freedom Magazine (1989)

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 2020)

• “The White/Black Hierarchy Institutionalizes White Supremacy in Nursing and Nursing Leadership in the United States” by Dr. Kechinyere C. Iheduru-Anderson | Journal of Professional Nursing (May 2020)

• “Stolen Breaths” by Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, Eduardo M. Medina, MD, MPH, and Rhea W. Boyd, MD, MPH | The New England Journal of Medicine (June 2020)

• “Exploring Race in Nursing: Teaching Nursing Students about Racial Inequality Using the Historical Lens” by Dr. Carole Bennett, PhD, PMHCS-BC, Dr. Ellen K Hamilton, DNP, RN, Dr. Haresh Rochani, DrPH, MPH, MBBS | American Nurses Association (May 2019)

• “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-nehisi Coates | The Atlantic (June 2014)

• “Performative Allyship Is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)” by Holiday Phillips | Forge (May 2020)

• “‘We Can’t Ignore This Issue’: How to Talk With Students About Racism” by Beth McMurtrie | The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 2020)

• “White Supremacy Culture in Organizations” by The Centre for Community Organizations (November 2019)

• “The history of eugenics in the U.S. has made migrant women vulnerable” by Brianna Theobald | The Washington Post (September 2020)

Podcasts

• 1619

• About Race

• At Liberty

• Code Switch

• Momentum

• Pod Save the People

• Still Processing

• Seeing White

• The Stoop

• Black Girl Podcast

• The Nod

• That’s Not How That Works

• Uncivil

• Nice White Parents

Film & Television

• “13th” (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• “American Son” (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• “Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975” — Rent

• “Blindspotting” (Carlos López Estrada) — Rent, Hulu (with Cinemax)

• “Clemency” (Chinonye Chukwu) — Rent, Hulu 

• “Dear White People” (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• “Fruitvale Station” (Ryan Coogler) — Rent

• “I Am Not Your Negro” (James Baldwin doc) — Rent, Kanopy

• “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

• “Just Mercy” (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Rent, for free in June in the U.S.

• “King In The Wilderness” — HBO

• “See You Yesterday” (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

• “Selma” (Ava DuVernay) — Rent, Youtube

• “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” — Rent

• “The Hate U Give” (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu (with Cinemax)

• “When They See Us” (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• “This Free North” (TPT-produced documentary on the Black experience at the University of Minnesota)

• “Jim Crow of the North” (TPT-produced documentary on the racist history of housing in Minnesota)

• “Crime and Punishment” (Stephen Maing) — Hulu

• “No Más Bebés” (PBS-produced documentary on the forced sterilization of immigrant women in California in the 1960s and 1970s)

Organizations/Individuals to Follow 

Organizations

• All Are Welcome Here|Instagram |Facebook | Twitter

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)| Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

• ACLU Minnesota | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Black Lives Matter|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Black Visions Collective|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Color of Change|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• The Coven|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Minneapolis NAACP|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Minnesota Freedom Fund|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• MPD 150|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• NAACP|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• No White Saviors|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Reclaim the Block|Instagram  | Facebook | Twitter

• Unicorn Riot (an independent media non-profit) |Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Women for Political Change|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• More

Educators, Activists, and Individual Organizers 

• Angela Davis (Political activist, professor emeritus, author)

• Laverne Cox(LGBTQ+ advocate, actress) | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

• Blair Imani(Historian, activist, speaker) | Instagram | Twitter 

• Janet Mock(Writer, director) | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

• Britt Hawthorne(Anti-bias/Anti-racist teacher-educator) | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

• Tanya Compas (Youth worker & youth engagement specialist) | Instagram | Twitter 

• JessamynStanley (Yoga teacher, writer, body positivity) | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

• Munroe Bergdorf (Activist, founder, model) | Instagram | Twitter 

• Rachel Cargle (Activist, writer)|Instagram | Twitter

• The Conscious Kid (Parenting & education)|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Layla F. Saad (Author)|Instagram | Twitter

• Ibram X. Kendi (Prof. & Dir., Center for Antiracist Research)|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Michele Norris (Journalist, Author, and Founder of The Race Card Project)|Instagram | Twitter

• Brittany Packnett Cunningham (Activist, writer)|Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Asma Nizami (local)  

• Dionne (local) 

• Vanessa McDuffie (local) 

• Ashley Paguyo El Shourbagy (local) 

• More

Contact organizations regarding their response to the BLM Movement 

Think: alma maters, professional orgs, religious orgs, anything you’re involved in.

• Template for emailing organizations – This document offers a rough outline of what you could say to call an organization into conversation about recent events

• Rachel Cargle’s draft letter to Academic Institutions

Other Resources

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community

• A Campus Divided at the University of Minnesota | University of Minnesota

• The 1619 Project | The New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

• White to White Conversation Topics by PFW

• The Race Card Project founded by Michele Norris

• Mpls.St.Paul Magazine: “Where to Support Black-Owned Businesses in the Twin Cities” 

• Free course from Yale University: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present

• Live updates on needs for volunteers to purchase, sort, and/or distribute donations: Twin Cities Aid Distribution Locations
  

More compiled resource lists like this one:

• University of Minnesota Office for Equity and Diversity: Twin Cities University and Community Resources

• University of Minnesota Office for Public Engagement: Ways to Contribute to Community Healing

• Anti-racism Resources for White People 

• The Non-Exhaustive and Imperfect Guide for White Allyship

• How to Support During the Black Lives Matter Movement

• Black Lives Matter Resources (Everlane) 

• Master List of Resource on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism 

• Twin Cities Collective Resource List

• What Can You Do? - by Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity