Happy Black History Month! Like the other eleven months, it’s an excellent time to buy queer books by Black authors! For even more recs, check out previous years’ posts!
Books to Read Now
Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Alex Wise feels like his world is ending. His best friend, Loren, is leaving town for the summer, his former friend and maybe sort of crush Sky hasn’t…
🌈 Good morning and happy Wednesday, my bookish bats! You didn't think that tiny "queer books coming out this fall" guide was ALL there was, did you? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR this month. Happy reading!
❤️ A Vision of Air by Nicole Silver
🧡 Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper
💛 How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve
💚 Kween by Vichet Chum
💙 The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson
💜 The B-Side of Daniel Garneau by David Kingston Yeh
❤️ Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie
🧡 Let the Waters Roars by Geonn Cannon
💛 Into the Glittering Dark by Kelley York
💙 When the Rain Begins to Burn by A.L. Davidson
💜 Been Outside by Amber Wendler & Shaz Zamore
🌈 The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
❤️ A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
🧡 The Spells We Cast by Jason June
💛 Pluralities by Avi Silver
💚 Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
💙 Beholder by Ryan La Sala
💜 This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi
❤️ Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell
🧡 Menewood by Nicola Griffith
💛 Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
💚 The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey
💙 Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
💜 Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams
🌈 In the Form of a Question: the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider
❤️ Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield
🧡 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
💛 Being Ace by Madeline Dyer
💚 Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer
💙 The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno
💜 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado
❤️ By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter
🧡 Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall
💛 Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender
💚 Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen
💙 The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen
🌈 Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
❤️ Family Meal by Bryan Washington
🧡 A Murder of Crows by Dharma Kelleher
💛 A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
💚 Love at 350° by Lisa Peers
💙 Greasepaint by Hannah Levene
💜 The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels
❤️ Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott
🧡 Mistletoe and Mishigas by M.A. Wardell
💛 Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn
💚 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters
💙 If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie
❤️ Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen
🧡 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
💛 It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer
💚 Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein
💙 These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
💜 The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu
❤️ Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
🧡 Mudflowers by Aley Waterman
💛 Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson
💚 Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, trans. by Eva Apelqvist
💙 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
💜 On the Same Page by Haley Cass
❤️ A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña
🧡 Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone
💛 The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones
💚 The Sword: Xcian by Elle Arroyo
💙 The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair
💜 300,000 Kisses by Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall
❤️ Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow
🧡 Blackouts by Justin Torres
💛 Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros
💚 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy
💙 Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light edited by Michael Earp
❤️ Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
🧡 We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe
💛 Sweat Equity Aurora Rey
💚 Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shepard
💙 The Misfit Mage & His Dashing Devil by M.N. Bennet
💜 Love and Other Risky Business by Sarah Brenton
❤️ Enough by Kimia Eslah
🧡 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
💛 Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot
💚 Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses by Maya Prasad
💙 Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey
💜 Fox Snare by Yoon Ha Lee
❤️ Murder and Manon by Mia P. Manansala
Today's joy with Rachel Joy Scott Friday edits is for missing kids I hope soon they be found and Brought back home safe and sound Madeleine McCann, Inga Gehricke, Summer Wells, Haleigh Cummings, Morgan Nick, Ben Needham, Timmothy Pitzen, Baby Lisa Irwin, Baby Sabrina Aisenberg, Kayla Berg, Mary Boyle, Jennifer Joyce Kesse, Amy Lynn Bradley, Asha Jaquilla Degree, Brian Randall Shaffer, Brandon Swanson, Lars Joachim Mittank, Maura Murray, Kyron Richard Horman, Rebecca Coriam, Evelyn Grace Hartley, Frederick Valentich, Lauren Spierer, Marjorie West, Margaret Ellen Fox, Joshua Guimond, LeeAnna Warner, Tara Leigh Calico, Cherrie Ann Mahan, Nyleen Kay Marshall, Phoenix Coldon, Laureen Ann Rahn, Johnny Gosch, Sara Anne Wood, Rebecca Reusch, BRANDON LEE WADE, Katrice Lee, Adele Marie Wells, William Tyrrell, Rene Hasee, Jane Beaumont, Dennise Jeannette "Denny" Sullivan, Ember Skye Graham, Tricia J. Kellett, Donnis Marie "Pinky" Redman, Renee Aitken, Dulce Maria Alavez, Jonathan Allen, Victoria Allen, Mylette Josephine Anderson, Erica Nicole Baker, Ava Grace Baldwin, Amber Renee Barker, Brittney Ann Beers, Tammy Lynn Belanger, Alessia Vera Schepp, Livia Clara Schepp, Ilene Rebecca Scott, Mary Lou Sena, Natasha Marie Shanes, Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Shea, Crystal Ann Tymich, Anna[1] Christian Waters, Holly Ann Hughes, Ashley LaShay Jones, Sofia Lucerno Juarez, Amber Jean Swartz-Garcia, Brooklinn Felyxia Miller, Marjorie Christina "Christy" Luna , Lorie Lynn Lewis, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Lauren Maria Pico Jackson, Hattie Yvonne Jackson, Janice Kathryn Pockett, Alice Pereira, Sabine Morgenroth, Daniela Moreno, April Ann Cooper, Catherine Barbara "Cathy" Davidson, Mary Rachel Bryan, Hazel X. Bracamontes, Melissa Lee Brannen, Edna "Bette Jean" Masters, Shaina Ashly Kirkpatrick,
•”A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, October 03, Grove Press, Personal Memoir in Essays/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Asian & Asian American/History/Vietnam/America
•”Let Us Descend” by Jesmyn Ward, October 24, Scribner Book Company, Literary/Historical/African American & Black
•”The House of Doors” by Tan Twan Eng, October 17, Bloomsbury Publishing, Literary/Historical/LGBTQ
•”The Liberators” by E. J. Koh, November 07, Tin House Books, Literary/Family Life/Cultural Heritage/World Literature/Korea
•”The Vulnerables” by Sigrid Nunez, November 07, Riverhead Books, Literary/Women/Friendship
•”Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business” by Roxane Gay, October 10, Harper, Essays/Commentary & Opinion
•The Best American Short Stories 2023” by Min Jin Lee (editor), Heidi Pitlor (series editor), October 17, Mariner Books, Literary/Anthology
•”Family Meal” by Bryan Washington, October 10, Riverhead Books/Literary/Coming of Age/LGBTQ
•”A Nearby Country Called Love” by Salar Abdoh, November 07, Viking, Literary/Family Life/World Literature/Middle East
•”The Berry Pickers” by Amanda Peters, October 31, Catapult, Literary/Coming of Age/Family Life/Native American & Aboriginal
•”Same Bed Different Dreams” by Ed Park, November 07, Random House, Literary/Satire/Asian American
•”The Wildest Sun” by Asha Lemmie December 05, Dutton, Literary/Coming of Age/Historical - 20th Century - Post-World War II
•”How to Say Babylon: A Memoir” by Safiya Sinclair October 03, 37 Ink, Personal Memoir/Women's Studies/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Jamaica
•”Flores and Miss Paula” by Melissa Rivero, December 05, Ecco Press, Literary/Women’s Literature//Hispanic & Latino
•”Familia” by Lauren E. Rico, December 26, Kensington Publishing Corporation, Contemporary/Family Life/Hispanic & Latino
•”The Refugee Ocean” by Pauls Toutonghi, October 03, Simon & Schuster, Literary/Historical/Friendship/Cuba/Lebanon/USA
•”The Leftover Woman” Jean Kwok, October 10, William Morrow & Company, Literary/Thriller/Women’s Literature/Family Life/Asian American/Adoption/Immigration/China/USA
•”What We Kept to Ourselves” Nancy Jooyoun Kim, October 10, Atria Books, Literary/Thriller/Suspense/Family Life/Asian American/Immigration/Korea/USA
•”Love in Winter Wonderland” by Abiola Bello, October 03, Soho Teen, YA/Romance/Contemporary/Holidays/Own Voices
•”Courting Samira” by Amal Awad, November 07, Harpervia, Romance/Contemporary/Muslim/Own Voices/World Literature/Australia
Bench Body Swimwears for Miss World Philippines 2021
Bench Body Swimwears for Miss World Philippines 2021
Without spoiling the Bench/ Body swimwears that the Miss World Philippines 2021 Candidates will wear on Press Presentation and the Beach Beauty Challenge, here is an exclusive* video of the 45 ladies during the closed-door swimsuit preview held at the Bench Tower in BGC yesterday.
National Director Arnold Vegafria (standing, left photo) poses with the ladies at the holding area after the closed…
Black Lives Matter: A (By No Means Complete) Reading List
“Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are a reflection. Books change your mind.” - Toni Morrison
It has always been, and always will be, vital to educate ourselves on the world around us. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, I hope that this blog can become a platform for sharing resources on black history and literature, in a conscious effort to educate both ourselves and those around us. It is our duty to continue to amplify the voices of people of colour, because it is through education that we can make lasting changes in the world.
Here you will find a list of books and essays by authors of colour, and which speak about the experiences of people of colour everywhere. By committing to read even one of these books, you are expanding your consciousness of the lives around you, and giving people of colour a voice.
(Please reblog with your own book recommendations - keep the chain going!)
Classic Fiction
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Another Country - James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
Small Island - Andrew Levy
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Contemporary Fiction
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
An Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
Sorry To Disrupt the Peace - Patty Yumi Cottrell
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
The Girl With the Louding Voice - Abi Daré
We Cast a Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
The Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi
Poetry, Theatre and Graphic Novels
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
I Am Alfonso Jones - Tony Medina, illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers - Ben Passmore
Say Her Name - Zetta Elliot, illustrated by Loveis Wise
Silencer - Marcus Wicker
Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith
How ro Be Drawn - Terrence Hayes
The Black Unicorn - Audre Lorde
Coal - Audre Lorde
Passion - June Jordan
Children’s/YA Fiction
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson
With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X - Ilyasah Shabazz
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness - Anastasia Higginbotham
A Is for Activist - Innosanto Nagara
New Kid - Jerry Craft
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work - Tiffany Jewell
Hey everyone this is my new fanfic series Pretty Little Killers.
Description: Six teenage best friends Zora, Senna, Riley, Mackenzie, Amerie, and Luna attend their local school's annual Friday night lockdown. But what happens when an unexpected “accidental” incident happens that night involving another student. The six best friends find themselves in a world tangled with lies and will do anything and everything to keep their secret of what happened that night.
If you are looking for recommended books to read for your book club, I’ve got you covered. With discussion-worthy historical fiction, fascinating nonfiction, and fun reads from the last few years, you won’t have to debate what new book club books to read next.
Here are my top 21 favorite book club books for 2021.
NEW RELEASES:
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
The Survivors by Jane Harper
HISTORICAL FICTION:
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
RACISM:
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
LIGHT READING:
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
A collection of nonfiction books by Black authors and/or related to intersectional race and gender studies, history, as well as other various topics. The list below is a compilation of various lists I have seen on Instagram, as well as research I’ve done on my own. I am sure I am missing important works, and am happy to add anything that is suggested. This list will be regularly added to and updated.
Race & Anti-Racism
Diangeo, Robin - White Fragility
Eddo-Lodge, Renni - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Kendi, Ibrahim X. - How to Be Anti-Racist
Mahzarin, Banaji & Greenwald, Anthony - Blindspot
Oluo, Ijeoma - So you want to talk about race
Omi and Winant - Racial Formation in the United States
Rankine, Claudia - Citizen
Roberts, Dorothy - Killing the Black Body
Smith, Andrea - Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy
Sowell, Thomas - Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Waheema & Lubiano - The House that Race Built
Ward, Jesmyn - The Fire This Time
Prison Abolition & the Justice System
Alexander, Michelle - The New Jim Crow
Davis, Angela - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Murakawa, Naomi - The First Civil Right
Stefanic & Delgado - Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
Stevenson, Bryan - Just Mercy
Rothstein, Richard - The Color of Law
Policing
Vitale, Alex S. - The End of Policing
Intersectional Feminism
Bambara, Toni Cade - The Black Woman, An Anthology
Carruthers, Charlene - Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Cooper, Brittney - Eloquent Rage
Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Feminist Thought
Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Sexual Politics
Cottom, Tressie McMillan - THICK and Other Essays
Crenshaw, Kimberle - On Intersectionality
Davis, Angela - Women, Race, & Class
Davis, Dána-Ain - Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Gay, Roxane - Bad Feminist
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline - Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugivity
Hernandez, Ed. Daisy and Rehman, Bushra - Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
hooks, bell - Ain’t I a Woman
hooks, bell - All About Love
hooks, bell - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Jenkins, Morgan - This Will Be My Undoing
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Kendall, Mikki - Hood Feminism
Lorde, Audre - Sister Outsider
Morales, Rosario - This Bridge Called My Back
Morgan, Joan - When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks it Down
Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́ - The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography
Simpson, Leanne Beta - As We Have Always Done
Williamson, Terrion L. - Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Wilson & Russell - Divided Sisters
Yamahtta-Taylor, Keeanga - How We Get Free
Masculinity
hooks, bell - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
hooks, bell - We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
History
Asante Jr., M.A. - It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Baldwin, James - The Fire Next Time
Berry, Daina Ramey & Gross, Kali Nicole - A Black Women’s History of the United States
Gates Jr., Henry Louis - Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Blackmon, Douglas A. - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Du Bois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk
Hartman, Saidiya - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Hurston, Zora Neale - Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Johnson, E. Patrick - Black, Queer, Southern Women.: An Oral History
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Kendi, Ibram X. - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Snorton, C. Riley - Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Taylor, Candacy A. - Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America
Washington, Harriet A. - Medical Apartheid
Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns
Zinn, Howard - A People’s History of the United States
Politics/Economy
Anderson, Carol - One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Baptist, Edward E. - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Psychology
Menakem, Resmaa - My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Tatum, Beverly Daniel - "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Literary Criticism
Morrison, Toni - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Education
hooks, bell - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Science & Technology
Benjamin, Ruha - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Shetterly, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Autobiography/Memoir
Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bernard, Emily - Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Broom, Sarah M. - The Yellow House
Brown, Austin Channing - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Coates, Ta-Nehisi - The Beautiful Struggle
Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Between the World and Me
Hinton, Anthony Ray - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
hooks, bell - Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Jones, Saeed - How We Fight For Our Lives
Khan-Kullors, Patrisse and Bandele, Asha - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Laymon, Kiese - Heavy: An American Memoir
Mock, Janet - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime
Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Obama, Michelle - Becoming
Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography
Welteroth, Elaine - More Than Enough
Wright, Richard - Black Boy
X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Comedy
Bell, W. Kamau - The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Haddish, Tiffany - The Last Black Unicorn
Rae, Issa - The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Robinson, Phoebe - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
No blog post this week. I felt like this was much more important. Here is a master post of everything I’ve found regarding the BLM movement, from petitions, to where you should donate, to reading, to accounts, to business... hopefully most of what you’re looking for can be found below. If I’ve missed anything vital please let me know and I will add it.
Petitions:
Justice for George Floyd (White House) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (color of Change)
RAISE THE DEGREE - Remove bail for Derek Chauvin, murderer of George Floyd (White House) | Arrest The Other Three (White House) | Raise The Degree (change.org) | The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder (change.org)
#JusticeforBre (MoveOn.org) | #JusticeforBre (color of Change)
Justice For Ahmaud Arbery (change.org) | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill (change.org) | Disbarment of George E. Barnhill (change.org)
Trayvon Martin Law (change.org)
Hands Up Act (change.org)
Justice for Belly Mujinga (change.org)
Justice for Tony McDade (change.org)
Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez (change.org)
Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet (change.org)
Wrongful Conviction: Julius Jones is innocent (change.org)
Wrongful Conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris (change.org)
Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery (change.org)
Defund The Police Minneapolis (Every Action / Reclaim The Block) | Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality (change.org) | National Action Against Police Brutality (change.org) | Against Police Brutality in France (change.org)
Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus (BLM) | Coronavirus: Demand More from the Government (BLM)
Get Schools to Speak Up (change.org)
Stand with BLM (organizefor.org)
Organisations to Donate to
George Floyd Memorial Fund
Minnesota Freedom Fund
Black Visions Collective
Reclaim the Block
Campaign Zero
Black Lives Matter
UKBLM
National Bailout Fund
Black Earth Farms
Communities United Against Police Brutality
Unicorn Riot
Louisville Community Bail Fund
Rebuilding the Community (We Love Lake Street)
United Families and Friends Campaign
COVID-19: Supporting BAME Communities
House of GG
Trans Justice Funding Project
The Okra Project
Youth Breakout
SNaPCo
Black AIDS Insitute
Trans Cultural District
LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund
For If You Have Little Money to Spare:
Check out these YouTube videos and play them while you go about your day (or actively watch! Up to you.) The ad revenue will be donated to organisations supporting black lives - but make sure you turn off your adblocker first.
By Zoe Amira
By Francesca Grace
By Cindy Marshall
By Danni and Emmyn
Instagram Accounts (source)
Nova Reid
Layla Saad
Rachel Cargle
Check Your Privilege
Rachel Ricketts
The Great Unlearn
Reni Eddo Lodge
Ibram X. Kendi
Galdem
The Irin Journal
Women Who
For Working Ladies
Thyself
Black Girl Fest
UK isn’t Innocent
Readbyrachelaa
Mikaela Loach
Podcasts
About Race with Remi Eddo-Lodge
Conversations with Nova Reid
iWeigh with Jameela Jamil
The YIKES podcast
Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
The World Wide Tribe
Zero Hour Talks
1619 by the New York Times
TV / Film (source)
13th
When They See Us
Selma
The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975
I Am Not Your Negro
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Hate U Give
American Son
Trial by Media
Books: (Source)
How To Be Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy by Robin Diangelo and Layla Saad
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
America’s Original Sin By Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al.
An African American and Latin History of The United States by Paul Ortiz
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Mindful of Race by Ruth King
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Coloraturas of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
This Book Is Anti Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch
Children’s Books: (Source)
Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard
My Hair Is A Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Young Water Protectors by Aslan Tudor
My Family Divided by Diana Guerrero
We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell
I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Maria Dismondy
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett
Shining Star The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo & Lin Wang
Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History by Vashti Harrison
Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Sulwe by Vashti Harrison
A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Intersection Allies by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council & Carolyn Choi
What Is Race? Who Are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Clair Heuchan & Nikesh Shukla
Black Owned Businesses: (source)
Wales Bonner
Casely-Hayford
Daughter of a Bohemian
Daily Paper
Aaks: Basket Bags
Martine Rose
Nubian Skin
Sincerely Nude
Liha Beauty
Beauty Stack
Bouclème: Afro and Curly Hair Products
Afrocenchix: Hair Products
The Afro Hair and Skin Company: shampoo bars, hair masks, face masks
Prick: Cacti and Plantcare
La Basketry: homeware
Bonita Ivie: stationery & design
Reset travel: travel cards and workshops
Bespoke Binny: homeware
New Beacon Books: Specialists in African and Caribbean Literature