Organizations to Support

• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

• Asian American Advancing Justice

• Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon

• NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

• PDX People of Color Outdoors

• Stop AAPI Hate - report a hate crime

 

Books

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Rage by Carol Anderson

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Real American by Julie Lythcott-Haims

• When They Call You a Terrorist by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• A Black Woman's History of the United States by Diana Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

• Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery

 

Portland's Racist History (Articles)

• "The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America" by Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

• "A Racist History Shows Why Oregon is Still so White" by Tiffany Camhi, OPB

• "Displacement in North and Northeast Portland," from PortlandOregon.gov

• "How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day" by Natasha Geiling, Smithsonian Mag​

 

Accounts You Should Follow on Instagram​

• AAPI Women Lead, @aapiwomenlead

• #amplifymelanatedvoices - Hashtag to Follow

• Blair Imani, @blairimani

• @frequentlyheard

• Indigenous Rising Media, @indigenousrising

• Layla Saad, @laylafsaad

• Liz Sohyeon Kleinrock, @teachandtransform

• Michelle Mijung Kim, @michellekimkim

• Monique Melton, @moemotivate

• @soyouwanttotalkabout - Dissecting progressive politics and social issues in graphic slideshow form.

• @theconsciouskid - Parenting and education through a critical race lens.

• @thisbrowngirlreads

• Rachel Cargle, @rachel.cargle

• Rachel Ricketts, @iamrachelricketts

• Sharyna Holmes, @sharynaholmes

• Sonya Renee Taylor, @sonyareneetaylor

• Toi Smith, @toimarie

• Victoria Alexander, @victoriaalxndr

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