Racial Justice Resources: Current Events

Noami shares the real concerns that most Black men in America are facing as they try to survive both COVID-19 and racism. The article heavily addresses black men's concerns and daily actions to try to minimize racial profiling while wearing a face mask.

"The CDC's guidance on wearing masks outside comes with an added burden for minorities. “If you’re a person of color, you can’t just wear a mask.”"

"The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others."

"A Q&A by—and for—people with privilege who want to learn more about racial justice."

"Phrased differently, it is white people (especially progressive white people) who are responsible for what happens now. Either they work to understand—and change—how white supremacy moves in and through their lives, hearts, minds, and spaces, or they decide they don’t have time, they’re too scared, they can’t deal with it, or, like Ms. Cooper, they linger in the fallacy that they could never be involved in a racist incident."

"Non-Black students of color may be learning anti-Black racism in the wake of protests following police violence. Here’s how you can counter those attitudes."

"Alanah Nichole compiles people, accounts and shops to watch, follow, and patronize to give your Black friends and colleagues a much-needed break."

"This is a highly unusual level of disdain for a word that until several years ago was a legal term in relative obscurity outside academic circles. It was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap. “Intersectionality” has, in a sense, gone viral over the past half-decade, resulting in a backlash from the right."

“If you’re thinking, ‘I’m not racist, I’m not prejudiced, I’m not biased.’ You are. On some spectrum. And here is how I know.”

"I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day."

"Don't focus on your own feelings or make assumptions when offering support to Black colleagues amid police brutality protests."

"On this week's episode, Karen Grigsby Bates and Gene Demby respond to a white woman who's concerned about being an ally to an Asian friend who is worried about harassment. And we take on the question of why Native American communities are so vulnerable to COVID-19 — and why so little is being done about it."

"Pod for the Cause host Ashley Allison is joined remotely by New York Times bestselling author, historian and antiracist activist Dr. Ibram Kendi to talk about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black communities."

"How are college students feeling during COVID-19? What's it like to be an undergrad during a global pandemic? On this week's Pod for the Cause, we check in with student leaders of color across the country for a collegiate roundtable."

"As the vicious spike in COVID’s case count rocks the nation, this installment of “Under the Blacklight” focuses on the off-staging of race after weeks of protests about racial injustice. We ask: What has become of the supposed reckoning with white supremacy since George Floyd’s death? After weeks of uncovering the legacies of racism, are we at the bottom of a Sisyphusian hill again in insisting that race is as newsworthy in the disproportionate deaths of African Americans to COVID as it has been in the weeks of protest over police violence? And why has it been so difficult to connect the two?"

"I decided then that I could never give anyone reason to doubt I was an American. I convinced myself that if I worked enough, if I achieved enough, I would be rewarded with citizenship. I felt I could earn it...But I am still an undocumented immigrant. And that means living a different kind of reality."