Empowerment
Office of Intercultural Affairs, Ethnic and Intercultural Services at LMU, and other units to encourage the recruitment and hiring of diverse faculty, to diversify course curricula and teaching methods, and promote inclusive excellence in other areas of the university.
Anguish and Action: Provides resources to learn about police violence and antiracism as well as actions you can take to encourage reform from organizations who have been working on these issues at the local and national level for years
Ways You Can Help: Links to sign petitions, text or call government leaders, donate, access African American resources and other sites to protect and support protestors.
Knowing Your Rights if Stopped by the Police: A description of what the law requires and also strategies for handling police encounters.
Books
How To Be An Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde
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
When Affirmative Action was White
by Ira Katznelson
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
White Like Me
by Tim Wise
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Rage
by Carol Anderson
Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
by Angela Davis
Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
by Joe R. Feagin
Upending the Ivory Tower
Stefan Bradley
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Babara J. Fields and Karen Elise Fields
David Blight
Wesley Yang
Frank Wilderson III
Richard Rothstein
Frantz Fanon
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Robert Bullard
Films
13th — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Clemency— Available to rent
Dear White People — Netflix
Fruitvale Station— Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro — Available to rent
If Beale Street Could Talk — Hulu
Just Mercy — Amazon Prime Video (Free during June 2020)
King In The Wilderness — HBO and Available to rent
See You Yesterday— Netflix
Selma— Amazon Prime Video & Netflix
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Hate U Give — Google Play (Free during June 2020)
When They See Us— Netflix
Rest in Power: Trayvon Martin — Available to rent
Whose Streets? — Available to rent
3 ½ minutes, 10 bullets — HBO and Available to rent
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners —Tubi (Free)
16 Shots – Amazon Prime
Hello Privilege, It’s Me Chelsea —Netflix
What Happened, Miss Simone? —Netflix
White Like Me — Kanopy
Time: The Kalief Browder Story – Netflix
Articles and Web Resources
Structural Racism in America (Urban Institute)
RaceWorks (Stanford University)
History of Lynchings (NAACP)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Dr. Joy DeGruy)
Contextualizing Race with Los Angeles Protests (Dr. Cheryl Grills)
Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” (Harper’s Bazaar)
We Are Tired and Fed Up (Law.com / The American Lawyer)
It Could Have Been Me (Law.com / The American Lawyer)
The Case For Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic)
Say Their Name (Kadir Nelson – The New Yorker)
Black Lives Matter resource guide (The William H. Hannon Library)
Being African American and LGBTQ: An Introduction (Human Rights Campaign)
A Brief Survival Guide for Black and Brown LBGTQ Folks (Human Rights Campaign)
Economic State of Black America in 2020 (Joint Economic Committee, Congressman Don Beyer, Vice Chair)
Ted Talks and Webinars
What Does Society Look Like When #BlackLivesMatter? (Sharoni Little, Ph.D., Ed.D. and Jody Armour, J.D.)
The Urgency of Intersectionality (Kimberly Crenshaw)
How to Recognize Your White Privilege and Use it to Fight Inequality (Peggy McIntosh)
Courses
Fall 2020:
The Thirteenth Amendment, Racial Justice and Human Trafficking
Spring 2021:
1L Elective on Critical Race Theory
Racism & Environment
Allyship
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Corinne Shutack)
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
We're BAKC (Black and Korean Coalition, South Central & Koreatown)
What Can White People Do? (Ali Michael, Ph.D.)
Why A White Space? (AWARE-LA)