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Resources - Supporting Our Community

A variety of topics from the MN Historical Society
https://www.facebook.com/minnesotahistoricalsociety/live
 
Video explaining systemic racism and implicit bias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0qmth7OQmFMuseOUTPrgNmqRn8eUv9UwPxn2KqwV2BMHRZapr61kUUIg0
 
Anti-racism resource list
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1S5uckFHCA_XZkxG0Zg5U4GQGbY_RklZARwu43fqJH0E/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR1LyDHl3aF_Eo4Jizt8jLAP38CiDgkFKNqb6JD_mKSTX7SGChLu4sKP5CE
 
Harvard educated black woman shares her experience – what white privilege means
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2017/09/08/my-white-friend-asked-me-on-facebook-to-explain-white-privilege-i-decided-to-be-honest/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YTW_20200529&utm_content=YTW_20200529+CID_6120cd107123021c357c12f067485cf7&utm_source=CM&utm_term=My+White+Friend+Asked+Me+on+Facebook+to+Explain+White+Privilege+I+Decided+to+Be+Honest&fbclid=IwAR1ELNzkbgWTNkmqk1E7GdNXQWOMV8IK_-KxAIclEASPWwRxULr-HSjgCWI
 
Where to Support Black-Owned Businesses in the Twin Cities
http://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/black-owned-businesses-in-the-twin-cities/?fbclid=IwAR3GHseMV8F1GH8jq6e1n1z6mm8DJt8AusdZlR6K2pzCd_kuN0Ob4KxFzlg
 
MN Historical Society – Race and Policing in the Twin Cities and historical figures
https://www.mnopedia.org/race-and-policing-twin-cities
https://www.mnopedia.org/search/index/?f%5B0%5D=topic%3A9
 
Resources and ways to help
https://www.startribune.com/need-help-want-to-help-twin-cities-groups-offer-resources-for-folks-hurt-by-riots/570894392/
 
Google search – ways to help
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+help+in+minneapolis&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS876US876&oq=how+to+help+in+minneapolis&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.640j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
 
Go fund me for the Global Market
https://www.gofundme.com/f/midtown-global-market
 
Efforts to rebuild Lake Street
https://www.welovelakestreet.com/?fbclid=IwAR2iPSNM-WtBZYSZiRB6D_L1x0YHVu7VJ0V4pSZJ1FZRDeDVLSAxWRxPrc
 
Efforts to fund rebuilding University Ave in St Paul
https://www.givemn.org/story/Nufc?fbclid=IwAR1ftCxjesCtsZaVN_4Yy-YGecKmHBG3W6wvXdim5oPA8xlLSRZEkIuJ3BA
 
 
Suggestions to Watch:
13th (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu)
King in the Wilderness (HBO)
See You Yesterday (Netflix)
The Hate You Give (Cinemax)
When They See Us (Netflix)
 
Suggestions to Read:
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
 
Suggestions to Listen:
1619 (New York Times)
Code Switch (NPR)

Suggestions to Act:
Contact your congresspeople and ask them to support Reps. Pressley and Omar’s resolution condemning police brutality.
 
Suggestions to Donate:
Reclaim the Block (reclaimtheblock.org)
George Floyd Memorial Fund (gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd)
Campaign Zero (joincampaignzero.org)
Black Lives Matter (blacklivesmatter.com)
Communities United Against Police Brutality (cuapb.org)
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (naacpldf.org)
American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org)
 
 
 
 
 

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