- Explainer: what is systemic racism and institutional racism? ※ Racial Injustice has Benefited Me – A Confession
- The anger behind the protests, explained in 4 charts ※ Don’t Call It Rioting ※ There isn’t a simple story about looting
- Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is. ※ How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country ※ Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
- De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway. ※ How Much Do We Need The Police? ※ How to reform American police, according to experts ※ National Police Accountability Project ※ 8CantWait
- Brené Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist ※ Kendi on The American Nightmare ※ Q&A with Ibram X. Kendi on the Current Protests, Joining BU, and Anti-racist Research
- What it means to be anti-racist ※ First, Listen. Then, Learn: Anti-Racism Resources For White People ※ Anti-Racist Resource Guide ※ You can order today from these black-owned independent bookstores
- Seeing White ※ 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge ※ Anti-Racism Daily Newsletter ※ Guide to Allyship ※ Ally Resource List
- [Photos and Voices of the George Floyd Protests: ‘We Deserve to Be Heard’](Malformed URL.) ※ From Minneapolis to Syria, Artists Are Honoring George Floyd Through Murals and Public Artworks ※ Meet the Artists Behind Some of the Most Widespread Images Amid George Floyd Protests
- There are many excellent places to donate in the links above. The five I chose: Justice for George Floyd ※ Black Visions Collective ※ We The Protesters ※ Campaign Zero ※ National Bail Fund Network
- Today in 1943, poet, teacher and activist Nikki Giovanni is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Once dubbed “the poet of the Black Revolution,” gained fame as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement and has continued to be one of America’s most important writers ever since. Giovanni has taught at Virginia Tech (where she is a University Distinguished Professor) since 1987, where she delivered an acclaimed commencement address/chant poem after the 2007 mass shooting there. Giovanni has won seven NAACP Image awards, the Langston Hughes Award, the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award and a Presidential Medal of Honor, among scores of others. ※ Poet Nikki Giovanni On The Darker Side Of Her Life ※ ► James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, a conversation (1971) ※ ► Nikki Giovanni Reads her own Poems ※ ► Explorations in Black Leadership: Nikki Giovanni ※ The best place to start reading Giovanni’s work: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998.