Anti-Racism Resources

On Campus Resources

Reading

  • Supporting #OwnVoices authors
  • bell hooks
  • Anything and Everything by James Baldwin
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder
  • Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  • Hood Feminism by Nikki Kendall
  • How To Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
  • I’m Still Here, Austin Channing Brown
  • Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
  • Mediocre by Ijeoma Olou
  • Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
  • One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race by Yaba Blay
  • So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Olou
  • Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
  • Stamped, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
  • The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
  • White Fragility, Robin DiAngel

Instagram/Twitter Accounts

  • Black Lives Matter
  • Movement For Black Lives
  • Rachel Cargle
  • Janaya Khan
  • Sonya Renee Taylor
  • African American Policy Forum
  • Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Ijeoma Olou
  • Austin Channing Brown
  • Dr. Bernice King
  • Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  • Black Lives Matter 5280
  • ACLU Colorado
  • Glennon Doyle
  • @ckyourprivilege
  • @stopaapihate
  • @hateisavirus_
  • @theconscoiuskid
  • @asians4antiracism
  • @raising_the_resistance
  • @brownissues
  • @weethepeopleboston

Websites

Videos

Act

  • Amplify #BLM #BlackLivesMatter and Black voices on social media accounts by sharing posts and spreading information.

NOTE: Please do not repost acts of violence against Black folx.  While video footage has been critical to attempting to hold reprehensible white supremist murder and violence accountable, it is also traumatizing to be seen again and again, particularly by the Black community.

  • Check-in on your Black friends, family, and community members through authentic communication without centering yourself or your needs.

NOTE: If you have to think to yourself “is this someone that would like to hear from me?” or “am I good enough friends with this person?” then you probably shouldn’t be checking in with that person and there are other ways you can engage.

  • If you identify as white or white-passing, educate yourself and your white/white-passing community members specifically about whiteness and white supremacy and our collective collusion with white supremacy.

NOTE: There are a multitude of educational resources that you can access (see the above lists).  Please do NOT rely on folx in your community that identify differently than you to teach you about their oppression.

  • Demand accountability from your local government leaders and law enforcement communities. Make phone calls, attend protests, write emails/letters.  We recognize that it is not safe for everyone to participate in these activities, so we encourage you to engage in ways that are safe for you and your community.
  • Support Black owned businesses in Fort Collins over large corporations.
  • Pay BIPOC folx for the content you are consuming online (most have a patreon or venmo account that you can send money directly to).
  • Register to vote. And VOTE.
  • Free Bystander Intervention Training

NOTE: Reading the books below, listening to the podcasts, watching the movies, does NOT check off the “I did my anti-racism duty” box.  Action connected to our learning is CRITICAL and IMPERATIVE.  We have read/listened-to/watched much of the below, and yet we STILL collude with white supremacy and have work to do, always.