Take Action: Fighting Anti-Blackness Community Resource Bank

Resources for Black Students:

• Self-care tips for Black people who are struggling with this very painful week

• Emotionally restorative self-care for people of color

• 101 ways to take care of yourself when the world feels overwhelming

• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective: virtual therapist directory 

• Self-care mini-workshops

Resources for Anti-racist Allies: 

• General resources

  • Ways to Help: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

  • Anti-Racism: http://bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES   

  • Letters for Black Lives (with translations): https://tinyurl.com/y87z9n8n

  • In Defense of Black Life: https://linktr.ee/showupnow

  • How to be Actively Antiracist

  • Guide to Allyship

  • Antiracist Ally Starter Pack

  • Support Black people

• Organizations doing work surrounding racial equity and justice

  • Movement for Black Lives: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • Black Lives Matter: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • Antiracist Research & Policy Center: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

  • Center for Black Equity: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • Color of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • Equal Justice Initiative: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

  • Showing up for Racial Justice: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Books and other sources that dive into racism (past and present), and help facilitate conversations about racial equity and justice

  • How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

  • The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  • So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson

  • Understanding Race & Privilege 

  • White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

  • Responding to Racism and Racial Trauma in Doctoral Study

  • Graduate students’ agency and resistance after oppressive experiences

  • Bait and Switch: Representation, Climate, and Tensions of Diversity Work in Graduate Education 

  • Anti-racism reading list

  • Black History Month Library

• Resources on good ally behavior

  • How to be a good ally to your Black friends

  • Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life

  • Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

  • 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship

ANTI-RACIST RESOURCE LISTS

• Harvard African and African American Studies Faculty Reading Recommendations

• Harvard Asian American x #BlackLivesMatter Fundraiser

• HARVARD FACULTY: MATCH STUDENT DONATIONS TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

• Harvard Women in Tech+ Anti-Black Racism Resources

• Institute of Politics Project on Race and Ethnicity Resource List

• Phillips Brooks House Association/HOPE Resources provided by the Harvard Black Community

• Recommended Readings from the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality 

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources (A. Stamborski, N. Zimmermann, B. Gregory)

We also suggest you take a few moments to go to a Black-owned Bookstore and order items there to financially support Black community members.