Resources
SELECT TEXTS
Brittney Cooper, “Why Are Black Women And Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence?” Time, June 4, 2020.
Jelani Cobb, “The Death of George Floyd in Context,” The New Yorker, May 28, 2020.
Tikia K. Hamilton, “How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism,” ZORA, May 28, 2020.
Peter Gowan, “No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd’s,” Jacobin, May 28, 2020.
Rashaan Ayesh and Shane Savitsky, “CNN Crew Released After Being Arrested Live on Air While Reporting on Minneapolis Protests,” Axios, May 29, 2020.
Patrice Peck, “Black Journalists Are Exhausted: But We Keep on Keeping On,” New York Times, May 29, 2020.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Of Course There are Protests. The State is Failing Black People,” New York Times, May 29, 2020.
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., “George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait for White America to End Racism,” Time, May 29, 2020.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge,” Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2020.
Roxanne Gay, "Remember No One is Coming to Save Us," New York Times, May 30, 2020.l
Michael Harriot, “A Timeline of Events that Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising,” The Root, May 30, 2020.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, “Stop Lecturing Black People,” ZORA, May 31, 2020.
Will Bunch, “From Minneapolis to Broken Streets of Philly, the ‘Human Capital Stock’ Has Finally Had Enough,” The Inquirer, May 31, 2020.
Hannah Hagemann and Lynsey Jeffery, “George Floyd Reverberates Globally: Thousands Protest in Germany, U.K., and New Zealand,” NPR, May 31, 2020.
Ibram X. Kendi, “The American Nightmare,” The Atlantic, June 1, 2020.
Jamil Smith, “American Plague,” Rolling Stone, June 1, 2020,
Treva Lindsey, “The Lack of Mobilized Outrage for Police Killing Black Women in An Injurious Erasure,” Bustle, June 3, 2020.
Melanye Price, “Please Stop Showing the Video of George Floyd’s Death, “ New York Times, June 3, 2020,
Michael Harriot, “Where’d All These Woke White People Come From?” The Root, June 4, 2020, https://www.theroot.com/whered-all-these-woke-white-people-come-from-1843908710
LaShawn Harris, “Everyday Harm: Black Women and A History of Police Violence,” ABWH.org, June 5, 2020
SELECT VIDEOS
Excerpt of Video created by George Floyd
“Moment of Reckoning”: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Cornel West, and Bakari Sellers on Nationwide Uprising,” Democracy Now, June 1, 2020.
Bryan Stevenson on MSNBC, June 2, 2020
Trevor Noah on Amy Cooper, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and protests, May 29, 2020, https://youtu.be/v4amCfVbA_c
In Case You’re Still Confused post/tweet
Nick Cannon, “I Can’t Breathe Again,” May 31, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMTzu-T37I
LL Cool J Raps About George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, June 1, 2020.
RELATED ITEMS
G. Brown, "A Letter To White Women Who Keep Asking What They Can Do To Combat Racism From A Black Woman."
Cathy J. Cohen 2015 Lecture "Whose Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Black Love and Violence.”
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, on Radio Boston, “How America’s History with Race and Policing Holds Us Back From Reform.”
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