Resources

Organizations:

• Oklahoma NAACP
• National Council of Negro Women
• Families USA
• National Pan-Hellenic Council (Black Fraternities and Sororities)
• Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority
• National Black Nurses Association
  • Oklahoma City Black Nurses Association
  • Eastern Oklahoma Black Nurses Association
• Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma

 

Social Media:

• Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho):  He has tweeted out a 3-5 minute tweet that's entitled: "Dear White People, for days you have asked me how you can help...I've finally found an answer". During this tweet (and others to follow), he answers and encourages questions from White people and others about black culture.  I have included the link to his first tweet below.  As he mentions, there will be other tweets that provides a candid up-front answer to questions from everyone. 

Listen:

• A Decade of Watching Black People Die CodeSwitch Podcast from NPR
• Anger: The Black Woman’s “Superpower” CodeSwitch Podcast from NPR
• “When Civility is Used as a Cudgel Against People of Color” CodeSwitch Podcast NPR
• “The Power of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Anger” CodeSwitch Podcast NPR

 

Watch:

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” TED Talk
• “Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice” TED Talk
• “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them” TED Talk
• “How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and others for prison” TED Talk

 

Read:

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Ibram X. Kendi
• The 1619 Project from the New York Times
• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston
• “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility with Robin Diangelo  by Adrienne Van Der Valk Anya Malley
• “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo available for purchase or download on Amazon/Apple etc.