What We've Learned During #BlackLivesMatter And Recognizing Our Privilege

#15: It's been two weeks since we've last come through to your AirPods, and we couldn't be happier to be back. It's been a heavy week for all of us. Coronavirus is still here, numbers are actually rising in Arizona, but there's an even more important movement happening, #BlackLivesMatter, where we are fighting for justice of police brutality toward the black community. We go through some of our learnings, realizations, how we're progressing forward, creating a new normal and resources you can look to to educate yourself and others.

We also recap an controversial racist comment from a prominent Arizona magazine that circulated the internet and created a shitstorm (for lack of a better word) on their Instagram.

Here are some of the resources we mentioned in this episode:

Video On Argument About Black-On-Black Crime

Books:

1. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
2. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
4. Caught by Marie Gottschalk
5. White Fragility by
6. So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
7. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
8. Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
9. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Movies:

1. 13th
2. The House I Live In
3. Roots
4. 12 Years A Slave
5. Selma
6. The Hate U Give

Podcasts About Anti-Racism:

1. NPR Interview with Former Chief of Police in Camden, New Jersey
2. Code Switch
3. Still Processing
4. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
5. Pod Save the People

Children's Books:

1. Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry
2. A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
3. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
4. Amazing Grace
5. The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas
6. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
7. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
8. Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Organizations to Support:

1. Your local Black Lives Matter Chapter
2. The ACLU
3. Color Of Change
4. The Innocence Project
5. Cure Violence
6. NAACP

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