LIFE SERIES #4: Black Lives Matter - Doing The Work

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Lexci Mack joins WonderFilledWeek in the fourth installment of the LIFE SERIES. Lexci shares deeply personal experiences of growing up as a Black woman in this country and offers sound advice on how to be an effective ally. Join us as we discuss white privilege, racial bias and protecting our mental health to avoid burnout (Activism is a marathon, not a sprint!). We also offer resources including books, movies, programs and podcasts to check out to better educate ourselves on TRUE American History, what it's like to be Black in America and how to help moving forward.

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Resources Referenced:

1. Books

• Adults:

1. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
2. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Race by Robin Diangelo - (The Stacks Podcast hosted by Traci Thomas will be doing an episode about this book later this month)

• Children:

1. AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
2. A is for Activism by Innosanto Nagara
3. Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel
4. Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

*There is a great, age-appropriate breakdown (starting as early as 0-1 year old) about how children perceive race & when to discuss race with your children online - on IG @TheConsciousKid written by the Children’s Community School.

2. Movies/Programming:

1. Just Mercy - Streaming FREE for month of June (Prime Video)
2. The Hate You Give (based on book by Angie Thomas) (Prime Video and Hulu)
3. When They See Us (by Ava DuVernay) - Central Park 5 (Netflix)
4. Selma - Martin Luther King Jr. / Civil Rights Movement (Prime Video)
5. 12 Years a Slave (Prime Video)
6. Dear White People (Netflix)
7. Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (Netflix)
8. 13th (13th amendment/loophole that allows continuation of black enslavement in the form of mass incarceration) Ava DuVernay - (Netflix)

3. Podcasts:

1. All My Relations - Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene (Different topics facing Native American peoples today)
2. 1619 - Nikole Hannah Jones - New York Times (Slavery in America)
3. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Over 4,000 African Americans between 1877-1950) - various hosts for different episodes
4. Intersectionality Matters! - Kimberle Crenshaw - American Civil Rights Advocate
5. Code Switch - NPR - Various journalists of color tackle race conversations head on
6. Beyond Prisons - Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein - Justice / Mass incarceration / Prison abolition
7. Radical Imagination - Angela Glover Blackwell - Racism / Toxic inequality
   

4. Organizations to Donate to:

1. Black Lives Matter

2. NAACP

3. George Floyd Memorial Fund

4. Minnesota Freedom Fund

5. Black Visions Collective

6. Reclaim The Block

7. Campaign Zero

8. Unicorn Riot

STOP. LISTEN. LEARN. DO.

ACTIVISM IS A VERB.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER