BLM Resources + Support

Petitions to Sign

• Black Lives Matter Petitions (List of multiple petitions to sign supporting change)
• Color of Change Petition (Demanding ALL officers involved with the murder of George Floyd be charged)
• Change.org (Pressuring Mayor Jacob Frey and DA Mike Freeman to charge ALL officers involved in the murder of George Floyd)
• Change.org (Pressuring Louisville PD to arrest the officers involved, especially John Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove)
• NAACP Petition  (Demanding the “appointment of an independent special prosecutor to lead the federal government’s full and impartial investigation of the murder of George Floyd”, the “reinstitution by the Department of Justice of consent decrees on police departments and municipal governments across this country that have demonstrated patterns of racism towards and mistreatment of people of color” and the “sweeping police reform–federal legislation mandating a zero-tolerance approach in penalizing and/or prosecuting police officers who kill unarmed, non-violent, and non-resisting individuals in an arrest”.
• Stand with Bre (calling on the Louisville Metro Police Department to terminate the police involved, and for a special prosecutor to be appointed to bring forward charges against the officers and oversee all parts of this case
• Action Network (Demanding divestment from the police force and investment in the health and prosperity of Black communities)

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Books

• The New Jim Crowe by Michelle Alexander
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
• Beloved by Toni Morrison 
• Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
• A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
• How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement by Angela Davis 
• Road Map for Revolutionaries by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Good Talk by Mira Jacob
• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo