#elijah baldwin

[kevinvoncrastenburg]

Uberhood (83) - Baldwin

Baldwin Summary: - Marcus Baldwin and Sally Riley snuck out. - Sofia Baldwin went off to college. - Isabel got a promotion in the Socialte career ✨ - Marcus and Sally had their very first kiss and went steady. 💕

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Eboo Patel

Published: Jan 9, 2023

An excerpt from We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy: 

On a summer night in 1961, James Baldwin presented himself on the doorstep of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He had come for dinner because he heard in the language of Elijah Muhammad someone willing, at that time, to do the rarest of things: talk plainly in public about the pain and fury that Black people had suffered at the hands of white racism. The story of this dinner and Baldwin’s reflections on it, make up the bulk of his much-celebrated 1963 book The Fire Next Time. 

Over the course of the evening, Baldwin found himself growing increasingly uncomfortable, even alarmed. The men and women were separated at the Nation of Islam, and the women were very clearly subservient. Everything Elijah Muhammad said was met with immediate and total affirmation from the group, in a rhythmic formulaic manner befitting a cult, not a community. Did they really think they could create an entirely separate Black nation and economy? If Elijah Muhammad said so, they did. Did Elijah Muhammad really think that white people could only ever be evil and that their main purpose was to find ever more creative ways to poison Black people? Baldwin better not share that he was on his way to the North Side of the city to have a drink with a white friend later that night.

Ultimately, Baldwin comes to the realization that while he understands Elijah Muhammad’s anger, he does not want to live in Elijah Muhammad’s world. “As I sat at Elijah’s table and watched the baby, the women, and the men, and we talked about God’s—or Allah’s—vengeance, I wondered, when that vengeance is achieved, What will happen to all that beauty then?”

He is referring to the Black people he grew up with in Harlem, and coming to the realization that, although Elijah’s anger is meant to save them, it won’t because it can’t. Anger doesn’t construct, it only destroys. Burns everything. Including those who breathe the fire—however justified and righteous—in the first place.

Let me use an illustration from Game of Thrones. In the early seasons of the series, we watch Daenerys Targaryen grow into her leadership and set her sights on the Iron Throne. She is righteous and idealistic, dedicating herself to the cause of oppressed people across the Seven Kingdoms. She travels to city after city with her dragons at her side, inspiring crowds with her speeches about equality and freedom, and directing her dragons to burn down the structures of enslavement.

Along the way, she learns that if you burn a structure down,  people expect you to build something better in its place. Dragon fire proves to be a powerful weapon against oppression, but a hazard to good governance. Dragons cannot tell the difference between a brutal slave master and an innocent farmer. They just scorch everything in sight.

Season after season, we see Daenerys struggle with governing, and become more and more wedded to her dragons. She increasingly sees the world through their eyes. Watching her become angrier and angrier, I couldn’t help but think about a twist on an old adage, “If all you have is the anger of dragon fire, the whole world looks like a structure to burn.”

The final episodes of the series bring this theme to its logical conclusion. When the bells ring at King’s Landing, announcing the surrender of the city, no look of relief or celebration crosses the face of Daenerys Targaryen. She does not think to herself that the day she has waited for these long and brutal years has finally arrived, and her golden reign of peace and justice might begin. She has had too much experience burning things down and too little building them up. She rides her dragon high into the sky, her whole body a clenched fist of oppositional fury even at the hour of her victory, and rains down a raging fire, murdering the very people she had promised to save.

And she is not finished yet. In her first formal speech as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, she promises more death, more destruction, more burning down of structures. This madness, even though she now sits upon the Iron Throne and has all the power she needs to build a better world.

The Daenerys Targaryen spirit lives in history as much as it does in fiction. The French Revolution began with the cry of liberty, equality, and fraternity and then gave way to five years of the Reign of Terror and, finally, a new dictator, Napoleon. Such has been the fate of more than one movement that began with high ideals. Too many activists, in their zeal to overthrow the Shah, wound up installing the Ayatollah. Some of them became the Ayatollah.

So what is to be done with righteous anger? Baldwin transforms his into working for the possibility of America.

“I am not a ward of America,” he writes in chapter 11 of The Fire Next Time, “I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.” That gives him both greater privileges, and also, in his estimation, greater responsibilities. He writes, “Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise.” And what should we do with that responsibility? Here is Baldwin’s answer: come together across racial lines to “achieve our country” and, by doing this, “change the history of the world.”

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One of the really big problems of the postmodern nature of wokeness is that it not only doesn’t build anything, it’s that it can’t build anything. It’s only capable of deconstruction, not construction.

[aphroditelovesu]

❝𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙇𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙎 𝙄𝙄 𝙈𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏❞

Historical Characters

💕 Yan!Alexander the Great w/His Twins!Children (Platonic)

💕 Yan!Alexander the Great, Yan!Julius Caesar, Yan!Napoleon Bonaparte and Yan!Henry VII w/Cheating!Wife (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Napoleon Bonaparte and Yandere Marquis de Lafayette w/Wife!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Alexander the Great and Yandere Mehmed the Conqueror (Romantic)

💕 Reader Love Letter for Julius Caesar (Romantic)

💕 Yan!Julius Caesar to Yan!Cleopatra

💕 Yandere Mehmed the Conqueror (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Pompey the Great (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Catherine of Aragon (Platonic)

💕 Yandere Catherine of Aragon w/Brother!Reader (Platonic)

💕 Yandere Baldwin IV (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Elizabeth I w/Lover Male!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Edward Seymour w/Pregnant!Reader (Romantic)

A Court of Thorns and Roses

💕 Yandere Helion (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Bat Boys w/Cheating!Mate

💕 Yandere Nesta Archeron, Yandere Amarantha and Yandere Lucien Vanserra (Romantic)

Greek Mythology

💕 Yan!Apollo w/Cheating!Wife (Romantic)

💕 Yandere!Cheating Hermes

💕 Yandere Hephaestus w/Pregnant!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Achilles (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Eros w/Soulmate!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Dionysus (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Persephone (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Athena

Bridgerton

💕 Yandere King George III w/Pregnant!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Anthony Bridgerton w/Pregnant!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Simon Basset (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Edmund Bridgerton w/Mistress!Reader (Romantic)

Percy Jackson

💕 Yandere Percy Jackson | Prompts 3, 4, 12, 26

💕 Yandere Annabeth Chase (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Percy Jackson w/Daughter of Aphrodite!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Jason Grace w/Nymph!Reader (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Will Solace (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Piper McLean (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Nico di Angelo (Platonic)

Marvel

💕 Yandere Gamora (Romantic)

The Originals/The Vampire Diaries

💕 Yandere Elijah Mikaelson (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Elijah Mikaelson (Angst)

💕 Yandere Damon Salvatore (Romantic)

Wednesday

💕 Yandere Wednesday Addams (Romantic)

Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

💕 Yandere Cat Blanc (Romantic)

Heartstopper

💕 Yandere Nick Nelson (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson (Romantic)

A Song of Ice and Fire

💕 Yandere Cersei Lannister w/Male!Reader Lannister

💕 Yandere Laenor Velaryon (Platonic)

💕 Yandere Maegor the Cruel (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Jaehaerys I Targaryen (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Rhaena Targaryen/Black Bride (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Maegor the Cruel w/Pregnant!Reader (Romantic)

Harry Potter

💕 Yandere Tom Riddle (Romantic)

BTS

💕 Yandere Jimin (Romantic)

Egyptian Mythology

💕 Yandere Seth and Yandere Horus (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Horus w/Princess of Egypt!Reader (Romantic)

The Hunger Games

💕 Yandere Peeta Mellark (Romantic)

K-Dramas

💕 Yandere Jeong Gu-Won (Romantic) || My Demon

Castlevania

💕 Yandere Vlad Dracula Tepes, Yandere Trevor Belmont and Yandere Alucard (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Vlad Dracula Tepes (Romantic)

Disney

💕 Yandere Prince Charming/Kit (Romantic)

💕 Yandere Prince Charming/Kit after Midnight (Romantic)

One Piece

💕 Vinsmoke Sanji (Romantic)

Attack on Titan

💕 Yandere Levi Ackerman (Romantic)

Hannibal

💕 Yandere Hannibal Lecter w/Wife!Reader (Romantic)

Maze Runner

💕 Yandere Thomas (Romantic)

[ghoostlystar]

Both DogDay and Harley Sawyer share the same voice actor, Baldwin Williams Jr..

His voice actor for his cartoon appearance is instead done by Elijah Delaney. This makes him the first character to have two different voice actors.

Source: https://poppy-playtime.fandom.com/wiki/DogDay?wikia-footer-wiki-rec=true

So, I was reading the Poppy playtime Wiki about some characters for... reasons... (fic, fic reasons yes) And I can't help my self from thinking that maybe the fact that DogDay having two voice actors may be not a coincidence, like, imagine if he has two different people dubbing him because one of voice actors is also the voice of his human self, maybe this "Harley Sawyer."?

Just saying this cause I haven´t read anything pointing out about this yet and I just find it interesting to considers all the possible options

(It can be that they just liked his voice very much and wanted to use it again on the game but anyway lol)

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 20 – The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Okay, continuing my ‘short books read in a rush to try and catch up on my reading goal’ pile. I’ve honestly been meaning to give Baldwin a try for a long while, if only to get a bit of context for all of the quotes by him that are floating around everywhere. And by the eldritch mysteries of the library hold system, this is what I got first. So! First non-history nonfiction of the year.

This is one of those books where it would be very easy to end up writing a whole essay but a) I don’t have time for that and b) I would do it very, very badly. So I’ll try to restrict myself to some quick observations and avoid embarrassing myself too much. (Of everything I’ve read recently, this is definitely the book which would have most benefited from a forward providing context, honestly. ‘One of the most influential books of the 1960s’ and all.)

So, the basics – technically an essay collection, but calling it that seems a bit much when the number of essays being collected is exactly two. The first is framed as a letter to his nephew about coming of age as a black man in such a relentlessly racist society and some theorizing on the function and meaning of race. The second (significantly longer, I think?) is about religion and how it intersects with blackness and desperation, specifically Baldwin’s own history as a christian preacher and the Nation of Islam, including an extended anecdote about having dinner with Elijah Muhammad.

Anyway, so first of all, turns out Baldwin really is as great a writer as everyone says he is! The prose really is lovely, with several passages I just stopped and reread for the pleasure of it. In terms of politics and ideology, I kind of get the sense that he’s the original author (or at least popularizer) for a decent number of ideas that had become part of the accepted commonsense by the time I became even minimally conscious and informed about the subject?

Certainly realizing that I’ve read and totally failed to notice a lot of reference to this book in other things I’ve read over the years. (some thing about the Ta-Nehisi Coates book that’s just a direct conscious modernization of the first essay retroactively becoming much clearer, if nothing else.)

I had no idea going in how much of the book was about religion? So that was an interesting surprise – I’d been vaguely aware Baldwin was an atheist, but hadn’t known anything about him being a preacher when he was younger, or just how vehement his disdain for Christianity is.

It’s also just fascinating to read about the NOI from the vantage point of the mid ‘60s, when they were so vital and growing so rapidly and credibly seemed like the Way of the Future. Also this might be the first thing I’ve ever read about them that devoted more time to Elijah Muhammad than Malcolm X.

Anyway yeah, great read. Glad I finally got around to it.

[favevoiceactorbracket]

Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!

And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!

No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down

This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!

Good luck to all of our competitors!

Kirby Morrow

Rob Paulsen

Robbie Daymond

Tiana Camacho

Alex Hirsch

Khoi Dao

Megumi Ogata

Ray Chase

Sungwon Cho

tara strong

Yuri Lowenthal

Alejandro Saab

Billy Kametz

Billy West

bryce papenbrook

Cree Summer

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Kevin Conroy

Phil Lamar

Zach Aguilar

Zeno Robinson

AJ Michalka

Alex Brightman

Allegra Clark

Ashley Johnson

Christopher R. Sabat

Daws Butler

Eartha Kitt

Erika Harlacher-Stone

Frank Welker

J. Michael Tatum

Jack De Sena

Jason Griffith

JK Simmons

John DiMaggio

June Foray

Kristen Schaal

Mark Hamill

Richard Horvitz

Steve Blum

Tom Kenny

Wendie Malick

Aaron Dismuke

Aaron Paul

Aimee Carrero

Alison Brie

Ami Koshimizu

Angela Bassett

Ashley Ball

ashly burch

Avi Roque

Ayumu Murase

Ben Schwartz, baby!

BETH MAY

bill farmer

Bill Scott

brandon rogers

Caitlin Glass

Casey Kasem

Cassandra Lee Morris

Cecil Baldwin

Christine Cavanaugh

Clark Duke

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Daman Mills

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Provenmire

Dani Chambers

Dante Basco

Dave Fennoy

David Tennant

Deedee Magno Hall

Deven Mack

Doris Grau

Doug Boyd

Dylan Marron

Elizabeth Maxwell

EG Daily

Elijah Wood

Ellen McLain

Eric Vale

Erin Fitzgerald

Josey Montana McCoy

Greg Chun

Gu Jiangshan

Guilherme Briggs (brazilian)

Haley Tju

Harry Shearer

Haruka tomatsu

Helen Gould

Hynden Walch

Jack McBrayer

Jackson Publick

Jaime Lynn Marchi

Jason Griffith

Jason Liebrecht

jason marsden

Jennifer Hale

Jerry Jewell

Jim Cummings

Jim Ward

John Burgmeier

John Swasey

Johnny Yong Bosch

Julie Kavner

Justin Cook

Kaiji Tang

Katey Sagal

Kdin Jenzen

Keith David

Ken Sansom

Kent William

Kevin Brighting

Kevin R Free

Kieran Reagan

Kimberly Brooks

Kimiko glenn

Kyle Igneczi

Kyle McCarley

Laura Bailey

Lauren Tom

Leah Clark

Liam O’Brien

Lorenzo Music

Lucien Dodge

Lucille Bliss

Lydia Mackay

Lydia Nicholas

Maddie Blaustein

Mae Questel

Mae Whitman

Maggie Robertson

Mara Wilson

Mark Oliver

Matthew Mercer

Matthew Zahnzinger

Maurice LaMarche

Max Mittelman

Mel Blanc

Melissa Hutchinson

Michael Adamthwaite

Micheal Sinterniklaas

Mike Judge

Monical rial

Natsuki Hanae

Nicole Tompkins

Olivia Olson

Olivia Wilde

P.M. Seymour

Parker Simmons

Patricia Ja Lee

Patrick Pedraza

Paul Castro Jr

Paul Frees

Penny Parker

Pete Gustin ( i think thats how it's spelled)

Peter Cullen

Phil Harris

Phil Hartman

Ricco Fajardo

Roger Craig Smith

Roz Ryan

Sandra Oh

Sarah Miller-Crews

Sayaka Ohara

Scatman Crothers

Scott Adsit

Scott Mcneil

Stanley Tucci

Stephanie Beatriz

Stephen Merchant

Steve Whitmore

Tabitha st Germain

Takaya Kuroda

Tom Kane

Tress McNeil

Veronica Taylor

Vincent Tong

Will Arnett

Yasuo Yamada

Zach Callison

Bobbie Moyinhan

Josh Brener

Andrew Francis

Brent Millar

Sebastian Todd

Kestin Howard

Lizzy Hofe

Andy Cowley

Todd Haberkorn

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Russi Taylor

[they--slash--them]

oh oh oh oh oh! when james baldwin compares trying to defend to elijah that all white ppl aren't bad to what it must feel like when a white person tries to advocate that all black people aren't bad like screams goes ferals this is what it all means can't you see it james baldwin saw it ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[unclescurvy]

2023 Undrafted Rookies

Now that the dust has settled, let's check out which teams kept undrafted rookies on their 53-man rosters (not counting the ones stashed on IR).

BUFFALO

None

MIAMI

RB Chris Brooks (BYU)

NT Brandon Pili (USC)

NEW ENGLAND

None

NY JETS

WR Xavier Gipson (SF Austin)

WR Jason Brownlee (Southern Miss)

BALTIMORE

None

CINCINNATI

None

CLEVELAND

LB Mohamoud Diabate (Utah)

CB Kahlef Hailassie (Western Kentucky)

S Ronnie Hickman (Ohio State)

PITTSBURGH

None

HOUSTON

None

INDIANAPOLIS

LB Isaiah Land (Florida A&M)

JACKSONVILLE

WR Elijah Cooks (San Jose State)

TENNESSEE

WR Kearis Jackson (Georgia)

LB Otis Reese IV (Ole Miss)

CB Anthony Kendall (Baldwin Wallace) <-- Division III!

S Matthew Jackson (Eastern Kentucky)

DENVER

RB Jaleel McLaughlin (Youngstown State)

TE Nate Adkins (South Carolina)

LB Thomas Incoom (Central Michigan)

KANSAS CITY

LB Cam Jones (Indiana)

LAS VEGAS

None

LA CHARGERS

RB Elijah Dotson (Northern Colorado)

DALLAS

G T.J. Bass (Oregon)

NY GIANTS

None

PHILADELPHIA

None

WASHINGTON

WR Mitchell Tinsley (Penn State)

CHICAGO

QB Tyson Bagent (Shepherd)

S Quindell Johnson (Memphis)

DETROIT

CB Steven Gilmore (Marshall)

GREEN BAY

RB Emanuel Wilson (Fort Valley State)

WR Malik Heath (Ole Miss)

TE Ben Sims (Baylor)

LB Brenton Cox, Jr. (Florida)

P Daniel Whelan (UC-Davis)

MINNESOTA

LB Andre Carter II (Army)

LB Ivan Pace, Jr. (Cincinnati)

DT Junior Aho (SMU)

CB Najee Thompson (Georgia Southern)

ATLANTA

None

CAROLINA

OT Ricky Lee (North Carolina A&T)

G Nash Jensen (North Dakota State)

LB Claudin Cherelus (Alcorn State)

CB D'Shawn Jamison (Texas)

NEW ORLEANS

K Blake Grupe (Notre Dame)

TAMPA BAY

RB Sean Tucker (Syracuse)

WR Rakim Jarrett (Maryland)

LB Markees Watts (Charlotte)

S Christian Izien (Rutgers)

CB Derrek Pitts (NC State)

ARIZONA

RB Emari Demercado (TCU)

CB Starling Thomas V (UAB)

P Nolan Cooney (Syracuse)

LA RAMS

None

SAN FRANCISCO

None

SEATTLE

WR Jake Bobo (UCLA)

LB Drake Thomas (NC State)

[kevinvoncrastenburg]

Uberhood Pics (48) - Baldwin, Phoenix & Picaso

Not much happened at the Baldwin's. Marcus and his brother Elijah enjoy playing video games, Sofia is still happily in love with Daniel Bell & Benjamin is climbing up the science career track. I'm thinking of giving Isabel a little makeover and maybe even move the family out of their apartment. Playing in apartments is so annoying recently. I installed a mod and I think because of that every family got reset somehow? Anyway it led to the neighbors peeing themselves and them passing out constantly. It feels like they forgot they have an apartment they can go into. On top of that, everytime this happens, I get this little window showing me what's happening and it's very annoying. Not to mention the memory spam about it all. I found a fix for it but I am not sure if it really works or if I'm just lucky: I click on the sim, take control of them, and send them into their apartment. After I gave the command I immediately remove the control of them and let them do it on their own and it seems to work fine so far. Afterwards they leave and enter their apartment as they should. Let's cross our fingers this is the solution. It would be a pain in the butt to move every family out of their apartment just to make them move into a house.

Jimmy Phoenix & Tiffany Sampson got married this round. They now live in Desiderata Valley and expect a little bundle of joy. I am very excited what this baby will look like. It's always fascinating to me how the game plays with genetics. 😅

At the Picaso's a few things happened: Jessica had enough of Matthew's lying a* and threw him out. She caught him cheating with Hannah Bell. They even got caught by Jessica & Matthew's daughter, Paola. Living together got impossible so I made them divorce. To celebrate her new-found freedom I gave Jessica a little makeover. Right now she tries to focus on her daughter and her career.

Jessica rolled this want after divorcing Matthew. Really? She wants to apologize even though he was the one who cheated on her? She's traumatized. D:

[trixie-and-ames]

"When I was very young and was dealing with my buddies in those wine and urine-stained hallways, something in me wondered, 'What will happen to all that beauty?' For black people though, I'm aware that some of us, black and white, do not know it yet, are very beautiful. and when I sat at Elijah's table and watched the baby, the women and, the men and we talked about God's - Allah's- vengeance, I wondered when that vengeance was achieved, 'What will happen to all that beauty then?' I could also see that the intransigence and ignorance of the white world might make that vengeance inevitable — a vengeance that does not really depend on, and cannot really be executed by, any person or organization, and that cannot be prevented by any police force or army; historical vengeance, a cosmic vengeance based on the law that we recognize when we say, "Whatever goes up must come down."

+ James Baldwin, from "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" in The Fire Next Time, 1963

+ Photo: James Baldwin, Istanbul, 1965-ish [Photo Credit: Sadat Pakay]

[apinchofm]

most of my ships involve women of colour being loved and cared for and i just think that's neat.

[undefined5posts]

[danielle-sims]

[mowi0205]

“We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame. ‘Come,’ he said.”

.

(Elijah Wood in Set Fire to the Stars

Samuel Barnett in Desperate Romantics

Quotes from Giovanni’s Room _ James Baldwin)

[owenelijah]

“Dear Listeners...”

Cecil from Welcome to Night Vale. The illustration is a few years old and my head cannon image of him constantly changes in every imaginable way, but I think that’s acceptable given the nature of the Nightvale-verse.

[emerald-studies]

How to be an ally

(I fixed ALL the links so fucking reblog)

1.  Check In On Your Black Friends/Acquaintances

In my opinion, I believe the best way to be an ally is to reach out to your Black friends and check in on them, consistently. If you can recognize the times we are living in are absolute hell, you should be checking in on the most effected. None of my friends have checked up on me to see how I was doing or just to talk. They didn’t even bring up the protests until I did. It feels very very lonely and scary to not be checked up on by the people who say they support and love you. So, I’m making this the first point because I don’t want anyone else to feel this way, not trying to complain.

2.  Learn More About Black History

It’s important to learn about the Black activists that our history books left out. Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. was, and is, important but we need to reflect on why he was pushed on us so much in our history classes, compared to other Black leaders. Is it because our government would rather us walk down the street holding signs than actually defending ourselves against the cop who’s beating us?

Here’s a master list of activists to start you off.

3.  Go to Rallies and Protests (If you can)

Find protests and rallies in your area by looking on Twitter and search #yourcityprotest. Or watch your local news channel to see where they are (if they’re being covered on the news). Also search on Facebook. Wear a mask.

4. Donate and Sign Petitions

If you don’t have extra money to donate, that’s fine. If you still want to be an ally then sign all the petitions you can. Take a day to research all the ones you can sign/haven’t signed and sign them!

(Also you don’t need to donate to change.org! Directly donate to non-profit organizations and victims’ families!)

George Floyd - change.org

George Floyd - amnesty.org

George Floyd - colorofchange.org

Get The Officers Charged

Charge All Four Officers

Breonna Taylor - moveon.org

Breonna Taylor - colorofchange.org

Breonna Taylor - justiceforbreonna.org

Breonna Taylor - change.org

Breonna Taylor - thepetitionsite.com

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 2

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 3

Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau

Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Defund MPD

Life Sentence For Police Brutality

Regis Korchinski - change.org

Tete Gulley - change.org

Tony McDade - change.org

Tony McDade - actionnetwork.org

Tony McDade - thepetitionsite.com

Joao Pedro - change.org

Julius Jones - change.org

Belly Mujinga - change.org

Willie Simmons - change.org

Hands Up Act - change.org

National Action Against Police Brutality

Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org

Alejandro Vargas Martinez - change.org

Censorship Of Police Brutality In France

Sean Reed - change.org

Sean Reed - change.org 2

Kendrick Johnson - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org 2

Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD

Jamee Johnson - organizefor.org

Darius Stewart - change.org

Darius Stewart - moveon.org

Abolish Prison Labor

Free Siyanda - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org 2

Andile Mchunu (Bobo) - change.org

Eric Riddick - change.org

Amiya Braxton - change.org

Emerald Black - change.org

Elijah Nichols - change.org

Zinedine Karabo Gioia - change.org

Angel Bumpass - change.org

Sheku Bayoh - change.org

Visit these sites for more info:

http://www.pb-resources.com/

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

5. Educate yourself and others.

Articles:

- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

- The Combahee River Collective Statement

- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Movies/TV Shows:

When They See Us

American Son

Hello Privilege, It’s Me, Chelsea

The 13th

Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story

What Happened Miss Simone?

The Two Killings of Sam Cooke

Who Killed Malcolm X?

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce (Lighter in tone)

LA 92

Dear White People

Videos:

- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

- American Oxygen - Rihanna

- Formation - Beyonce

Podcasts:

- Malcolm X Speeches

- 1619 (New York Times)

- About Race

- Code Switch (NPR)

- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Books:

- The Autobiography of Malcolm X

- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About RaceBook by Reni Eddo-Lodge

- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Follow:

- Shaun King: Instagram | Website

- Antiracism Center: Twitter

- Black Women’s Blueprint: Website

- Color Of Change: Website

- The Conscious Kid: Website | Instagram

- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Website | Twitter | Instagram

- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram |

- Ziwe | Instagram | (She has discussions about race with White people, kinda grilling them, every Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. Super thrilling to watch.)

Here’s Some Music Too:

Change Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

Chain Gang - Nina Simone

Missisippi Goddamn - Nina Simone

Fuck Da’ Police - N.W.A.

This is America - Childish Gambino

I’m Not Racist - Joyner Lucas

Fight the Power - Public Enemy

Freedom (Live) - Beyonce

I Can’t Breathe - H.E.R.

American Oxygen - Rihanna

Brown Skin Girl - Beyonce

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My Playlist With A Few More

Black Artists Matter Playlist

What a large list! It looks so overwhelming! Don’t worry, you don’t have to read/watch/listen to everything. It takes a lot of effort!

Jk.