Antiracism Advocacy Resources

STITCH stands with the Black community and wants to share resources, curated by our Multimedia team, that provide support to those protesting and encourage antiracism advocacy. 

Donate, educate and SHARE. 

Silence is violence.

Resources 

• How to treat someone who has been tear gassed

• How to access PPE for protest

• Alternative actions if you can't donate 

Donation Links 

• Bail Funds and Organizations

• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund - gofundme

• Minnesota Freedom Fund 

• Directory of Community Bail Funds

• Black Visions Collective 

• Reclaim the Block 

• Venmo (OnTheGroundChi)

  • Providing protestors with PPE and first aid 

• Chicago Community Bond Fund 

Books 

• Books by Black activists 

• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas 

• Letter From Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr. 

• Dear Martin - Nic Stone

• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

• Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins

• How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

• Raising Our Hands - Jenna Arnold 

• So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century - Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige

Movies / Documentaries

• List of Amazing Documentaries About Racism 

• 13th - Ava DuVernay 

• Get Out - Jordan Peele 

• If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins 

• Detroit - Kathryn Bigelow 

Podcasts 

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters w/ Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Pod Save The People 

• Momentum: A Race Forward 

• Seeing White

• 1619 (NYT)

Miscellaneous 

• Hands Up Act - Change.org

• Julius Jones is Innocent - Change.org