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  1. Why We Need Reparations for Black Americans

    Authors Ray and Perry present their arguments for reparations, discussing how the American government needs to pay for the losses caused by slavery and ...
  2. 10 Ways Orgs Can Show Up for Black Lives Without Exploiting 'Black Lives Matter'

    Sunshine Muse provides pointed directives to encourage white led organizations to go beyond performative allyship. Sunshine reports that limited change ...
  3. You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while Black

    Often, when an innocent black person is harassed (or worse), people (usually white people) reinforce the black person’s innocence by noting their educat...
  4. 3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them

    "Change systems not individuals." This notion is the primary take away from this piece by Adwoa Bagalini who draws attention to common cognitive biases ...
  5. 1619

    The 1619 Project and its accompanying podcast "1619" aim to show how the the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans play a key...
  6. Who Owns Denver’s Black Lives Matter Movement?

    The author engages in an introspection discussion surrounding the Black Lives Matter Movement and how its mission is interpreted by a primarily white co...
  7. The Case for Reparations

    A collection of historic documentations and narratives that tell the case for reparations in parts. It reads in segments, almost like a lawyer’s brief, ...
  8. Black Lives Matter – where are we now and what can you do?

    The article cites research suggesting a decline in support for the Black Lives Matter Movement as of November 2020. The author acknowledges what changes...
  9. Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

    Taifa describes her own history in the black reparations movement in this blog post on the ACLU website.  She illustrates some of the leaders of the mov...
  10. A History of Racial Injustice Calendar

    This resource is a detailed calendar defining an event of racial injustice--lynchings, murders, court rulings, political statements, etc.--for every cal...