"A Place to Start"
Art has always been about connecting our shared human experiences. Right now, we ache for the inhumanity shown to POC. It is time for us to take a pause and meditate on our own complicity. We hope to broaden our understanding of what is happening and how to listen, help, and act. In the meantime, we're using The Museum of Modern Art's "A Place to Start" as our beginning. Please consider visiting these sites.
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*Taken from the Museum of Modern Art*
A Place to Start
fighting racism and supporting justice and equality
American Civil Liberties Union
Organization with a mission to realize the promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees
An Anti-Racist Reading List
From The New York Times, Ibram X. Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, on books to help America transcend its racist heritage
Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Relief Fund
Micro grant for US-based BIPOC artists and administrators
Bail Funds and Legal Help
Resource organized by city
The Bail Project
Organization dedicated to preventing incarceration and combating racial and economic disparities in the bail system
Black Arts Futures Fund
A collective of emerging philanthropists promoting the elevation and preservation of Black arts and culture
Black Lives Matter Carrd
A list of resources, places to donate, petitions, and information for protestors
Black Visions Collective
Working for a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in a right relationship within our ecosystems
Campaign Zero
Research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America
Change.org
A platform for change, with petitions for criminal and racial justice
Color of Change
Racial justice organization that leads campaigns that build power for Black communities
Community Justice Exchange (+ National Bail Fund Network)
National hub for developing, sharing, and experimenting with tactical interventions, strategic organizing practices, and innovative organizing tools to end mass incarceration
Critical Reading
A comprehensive list, from Achille Mbembe to Zora Neale Hurston, with PDFs
Critical Resistance
Seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe
Equal Justice Initiative
Working to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality
Fair Fight Action
Promoting fair elections around the country, encouraging voter participation in elections, and educating voters about elections and their voting rights
Fantasy World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism
For Freedoms
Using art as a vehicle for participation to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core values
Grassroots Law Project
Combining grassroots organizing with legal expertise to transform policing and justice in America
Homeless Black Trans Women Fund
Fund for the community of Black Trans women that live in Atlanta and are sex workers and/or homeless
Human Rights Watch
Investigating and reporting on abuses happening in all corners of the world
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
A network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities
Innocence Project
Organization dedicated to exonerating the innocent through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice
Justice Now
A nonprofit organization that partners with people in women’s prisons and local communities to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
A coalition of more than 200 organizations that work to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States
The Legal Aid Society
Social justice law firm in New York City
LGBTQ Freedom Fund
Posts bail to secure the safety and liberty of people in jail and immigration detention
The Liberty Fund
New York City–wide charitable bail fund for criminal reform
Linktree
Links to National Resource List, Bail Funds by city, George Floyd Resource Compilation, MN Bail Fund, Trans Funds, Mental Health Resources, The People’s Laundry, Black history/Revolutionary texts/Anti-racism Library
Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund
Partnering with Therapy for Black Girls, National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network, Talkspace, and Open Path Collective, to offer a comprehensive list of mental health professionals across the country providing high quality, culturally competent services to Black women and girls
The Marshall Project
A nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the US criminal justice system
Minnesota Freedom Fund
Community based nonprofit that combats the harms of incarceration by paying bail for low-income individuals
Movement for Black Lives
A space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions; develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural, and political wins; and convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Legal organization fighting for racial justice
National Action Network
One of the leading civil rights organizations in the US
National Bail Out
Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists building a community-based movement to end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration
National Black Justice Coalition
A civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS
National Urban League
Enabling African Americans and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights
The New York Times 1619 Project
An ongoing initiative to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative
Not in Our Town
A movement to stop hate, racism, and bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities for all
Prison Moratorium Project
Stands by a simple principle: do no harm. This is the animating principle behind our advocacy for a serious rethinking of the current correctional system in the United States.
The Racial Imaginary Institute
Founded by poet Claudia Rankine, a cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place are engaged, read, countered, contextualized, and demystified
Reclaim the Block
Grassroots organization investing in the Minnesota community
Rhizome’s Digital Resources for a Movement Against Police Violence
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Supporting research and programs targeting some of America’s most pressing health issues—from substance abuse to improving access to quality health care
Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
Southern Poverty Law Center
Dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society
Talking about Race
The National Museum of African American History & Culture’s online resource for talking about race
United Negro College Fund
The nation’s largest minority education organization
Vera Institute of Justice
Working to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities
Youth Represent
Dedicated to improving the lives and futures of young people affected by the criminal justice system
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