Supporting bipoc, specifically the black lives matter movement, doesn't only mean attending protests and signing petitions. While both are useful, a key part in being an effective ally and supporter is educating yourself. It's important that we take the time to learn, and we should understand that it's a privilege that we get to teach ourselves these things while others experience them. Below are lists of books, movies, TV shows, and podcasts that you can use to give yourself a lesson at home.
Books
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
Between the World and Me
The Skin We're In
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
The End of Policing
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Slay in Your Lane
Braiding Sweetgrass
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Me and White Supremacy
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Movies/TV
13th
When They See Us
Stay Woke
Dear White People
American Son
If Beale Street Could Talk
Blindspotting
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Hate U Give
Rest in Power
BlacKkKlansman
Fruitvale Station
12 Years a Slave
Selma
LA 92
Podcasts
1619
Lynching in America
Code Switch
Diversity Gap
About Race
Desert Islands Discs
All My Relations
You're Pretty For A...
The Intelligence
What Matters
Pod Save the People
Truth Be Told
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