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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
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/How To Be An Antiracist.jpg)
How To Be An Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Just Mercy.jpg)
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Sister Outsider.jpg)
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/So You Want to Talk About Race.jpg)
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.jpg)
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.jpg)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/When Affirmative Action was White.jpg)
When Affirmative Action was White
by Ira Katznelson
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Between the World and Me.jpg)
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Race for Profit.jpg)
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/White Fragility.jpg)
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/White Like Me.jpg)
White Like Me
by Tim Wise
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.jpg)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/White Rage by Carol Anderson.jpg)
White Rage
by Carol Anderson
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Stamped from the Beginning.jpg)
Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Freedom is a Constant Struggle.jpg)
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
by Angela Davis
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Systemic Racism A Theory of Oppression.jpg)
Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
by Joe R. Feagin
![Upending the Ivory Tower](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Upending the Ivory Tower.jpg)
Upending the Ivory Tower
Stefan Bradley
![Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Racecraft.jpg)
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Babara J. Fields and Karen Elise Fields
![Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Frederick Douglass.jpg)
David Blight
![The Souls of Yellow Folk](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/The Souls of Yellow Folk.jpg)
Wesley Yang
![Afropessimism](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Afropessimism.jpg)
Frank Wilderson III
![The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/making-of-ferguson.png)
Richard Rothstein
![The Wretched of the Earth](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/The Wretched of the Earth.jpg)
Frantz Fanon
![An Indigenous People's History of the United States](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/An Indigenous Peoples.jpg)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
![Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmbooks/Dumping in Dixie.jpg)
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Robert Bullard
Films
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/13th.jpg)
13th — Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.jpg)
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Clemency.jpg)
Clemency— Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Dear White People Netflix.jpg)
Dear White People — Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Fruitvale Station.jpg)
Fruitvale Station— Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/I Am Not Your Negro.jpg)
I Am Not Your Negro — Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/If Beale Street Could Talk.jpg)
If Beale Street Could Talk — Hulu
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Just Mercy.jpg)
Just Mercy — Amazon Prime Video (Free during June 2020)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/King In The Wilderness.jpg)
King In The Wilderness — HBO and Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/See You Yesterday.jpg)
See You Yesterday— Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Selma.jpg)
Selma— Amazon Prime Video & Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/The Black Panthers Vanguard of the Revolution.jpg)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/The Hate U Give.jpg)
The Hate U Give — Google Play (Free during June 2020)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/When They See Us.jpg)
When They See Us— Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Rest in Power Trayvon Martin.jpg)
Rest in Power: Trayvon Martin — Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Whose Streets.jpg)
Whose Streets? — Available to rent
![](/media/2019lmu/gateways/512x512_white.png)
3 ½ minutes, 10 bullets — HBO and Available to rent
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.jpg)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners —Tubi (Free)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/16 Shots.jpg)
16 Shots – Amazon Prime
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Hello Privilege Itâs Me Chelsea.jpg)
Hello Privilege, It’s Me Chelsea —Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/What Happened Miss Simone.jpg)
What Happened, Miss Simone? —Netflix
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/White Like Me.jpg)
White Like Me — Kanopy
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/blmfilms/Time-The-Kalief-Browder-Story-Netflix.png)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story – Netflix
Articles and Web Resources
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Urban-Institute.jpg)
Structural Racism in America (Urban Institute)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Race-Works.jpg)
RaceWorks (Stanford University)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/NAACP.jpg)
History of Lynchings (NAACP)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Post-Traumatic-Slave-Syndrome.jpg)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Dr. Joy DeGruy)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Contextualizing Race with Los Angeles Protests.jpg)
Contextualizing Race with Los Angeles Protests (Dr. Cheryl Grills)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Why-You-Need-to-Stop-Saying-All-Lives-Matter.png)
Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” (Harper’s Bazaar)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/A National Conversation on Racism.jpg)
We Are Tired and Fed Up (Law.com / The American Lawyer)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/A National Conversation on Racism.jpg)
It Could Have Been Me (Law.com / The American Lawyer)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/The-Case-for-Reparations.jpg)
The Case For Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Say-Their-Name.jpg)
Say Their Name (Kadir Nelson – The New Yorker)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/BLM-resource-Guide.jpg)
Black Lives Matter resource guide (The William H. Hannon Library)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/human-rights-campaign.png)
Being African American and LGBTQ: An Introduction (Human Rights Campaign)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/human-rights-campaign.png)
A Brief Survival Guide for Black and Brown LBGTQ Folks (Human Rights Campaign)
![](/media/loyolalawschool/diversity/blm/articlesandwebresources/Seal_of_the_United_States_Congress.png)
Economic State of Black America in 2020 (Joint Economic Committee, Congressman Don Beyer, Vice Chair)
Ted Talks and Webinars
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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)