Black Lives Matter #BLM

We're taking a step back from our scheduled episode this week to ensure the important discussions around Black Lives Matter continue to stay in focus.

Black voices are leading conversations about deep-rooted racism they have experienced and witnessed. These conversations aren't hard to find. We've included a few resources below to get you started if you aren't sure where or how to get started, but don't let these be the only things you engage with.

General

• Black Lives Matter website
• Ways You Can Help

Books

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
• High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

Articles

• The American Nightmare by Ibram X. Kendi
• Black Journalists Are Exhausted by Patrice Peck
• I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet. by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
• White journalists should be reporting on racial injustice, not just stepping aside for black writers by Kit Stone
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Podcasts and radio

• A Decade Of Watching Black People Die from Code Switch
• The Toll of Covering Police Brutality as a Black Journalist from Takeaway
• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race from NPR