Stand Up to Inequality: What to Do, Who to Follow, What to Read
By Laura Rives — Jun 18, 2020 11:00 AM

To our Black friends, colleagues, and neighbors: we stand with you. Everyone deserves to thrive in their own communities and live in a world free from oppression.
The current climate calls for a deeper understanding of systemic racism and the identification of privilege. Here’s a list of action items including where to donate, what to read, what to watch, and more.
Things to Do
- Check in on your Black friends, family, partners, and colleagues; ask them about the causes that are important to them
- Educate yourself on what it means to be anti-racist
- Call, Tweet, and send messages to your elected state and local officials
- Fact-check the articles you share to prevent the spread of misinformation
- Vote!
Where to Donate
- NAACP Empowerment Programs
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Black Visions Collective
- Black Lives Matter Movement
- Innocence Project
- Fund the Minneapolis Community
Who to Follow
- @blklivesmatter
- @naacp
- @reclaimtheblock
- @shotbycandace - a photographer capturing protests
What to Read
- Anguish and Action - The Obama Foundation
- The Death of George Floyd, In Context - The New Yorker
- Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge - Los Angeles Times
- Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism - Anti-Defamation League
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
- How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
What to Watch
- The Hate U Give - a film adaptation of a novel portraying race in America
- Becoming - a documentary chronicling Michelle Obama’s book tour
- When They See Us - a documentary about the Central Park Five
- 13th - a documentary exposing racial inequality in the criminal justice system
- Hidden Figures - a film about three African-American women who were the brains behind one of NASA’s greatest operations
What to Sign
- Official Petition for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Petition
- Justice for George Floyd Petition
Organizations We Admire
- Texas A&M University - launched $100 million fund to help its 11 campuses reflect the state demographics
- Tulane University - President Michael A. Fitts commits $2.5 milion to support students of color on campus
- Clarkson University - created a George Floyd Memorial Scholarship Fund
- University of Virginia - changed its logo over links to slavery
This list is in no way exhaustive. If you have recommendations you’d like to share, please share them with me by emailing laura.rives@hannonhill.com.