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Take Action
- REGISTER TO VOTE!
Visit I Am a Voter to register to vote, check your registration status, and get local election reminders - Sign petitions
- Reach out to your local government officials
- Donate
- Support Black owned businesses: several listed here, here, here, & here
- Take action with Stop AAPI Hate
- Visit #HATEISAVIRUS to see how you can help combat xenophobia and racism agains Asian Americans
- Offer your resources to the AAPI Community Resources Offering
- Send letter to your Member of Congress to take action against the targeting and racial profiling of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants, and call for an end to the Justice Department’s “China Initiative”
- Donate to the Hate Is a Virus CommUNITY Action Fund
- Donate to In Our Hands which is committed to helping recruit, train and support AAPI and minority candidates of color to run for office
- Support Chinatown with Send Chinatown Love
Books
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad
- The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
- Algorithms of Oppression - Safiya Noble
- How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
- Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
- Do the work: an anti-racist reading list - Layla F. Saad
- Check out the African American Literature Book Club, an online bookstore dedicated to books written by, or about, people of African descent in the United States and around the world.
- Black Owned Bookstores in NYC: Sisters Uptown Bookstore & The Lit. Bar
The Lit. Bar Reading List (includes recommendations for adults and children) - The Making of Asian America: A History - Erika Lee
- All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
- Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee
- China Men - Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority - Ellen D. Wu
- Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown - Nayan Shah
- From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement - Paula Yoo
Articles
- The 1619 Project (also a podcast linked below)
- Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness
- I Don’t Need ‘Love’ Texts From My White Friends
- A Guide to Allyship
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism
- The History of Anti-Asian-American Violence
- NextShark
- The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence
- Asian Americans reported 3,800 hate-related incidents during the pandemic, report finds
- The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings
- The Atlanta Shootings Fit Into a Long Legacy of Anti-Asian Violence in America
- Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide
- Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety
- Study shows that Asian Americans have been verbally and physically attacked, shunned during pandemic
- Anti-Racism Groups Lead Calls For Urgent Action Against Anti-Asian Attacks Following Atlanta Shootings
- America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens
Watch
- 13th
- When They See Us
- Teach Us All
- Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
- LA ‘92
- Whose Streets?
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Just Mercy
- How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
- How to Recognize Your White Privilege - and use it to fight inequality
- PBS: The history of identity, contributions, and challenges experienced by Asian Americans
- Who Killed Vincent Chin?
- American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- NBC Asian America Presents: Deported
- Rabbit in the Moon
- Halmoni
- Saving Face
Listen
- The 1619 Project
- Floodlines
- The Anxious Achiever: Discomfort, Anxiety, and Grief: Confronting Racism with Colleague
- Code Switch
- The Diversity Gap
- Intersectionality Matters
- Groundings
- Good Ancestor Podcast
- Ibram X. Kendi: Building an Anti-Racist Society
- Dear Asian Americans
- Asian Voices Radio
- Asian American History 101
- Rock the Boat
- Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AARI) - CUNY
More
- For members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community: 14 Black funds and 23 creative ecosystems to support, from Annika Hansteen-Izora.
- #DoTheWork 30 Day Course by Rachel Cargle
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Professional Development Offering of the eXtension Foundation Impact Collaborative
- Good Ancestor Academy by Layla F Saad: Personal Leadership and Anti-Racism Classes for becoming a Good Ancestor
- Real: In light of the ongoing fight for justice Real is offering free therapy services to the public.
- The Loveland Therapy Fund: provides financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy. (also accepting donations)
- A twitter thread of licensed therapists offering free services for Black community members: https://twitter.com/ajscribes/status/1267142268571410433
- This post from @yourbuddymeg includes several organizations and resources for the collective trauma in the Black community. (organizations are also accepting donations)
- A comprehensive resource from Girls’ Night In
- This anti-racism document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein provides articles, books, films, and videos, podcasts and organizations to follow.
- National Resource and Education Tool includes books, articles, media, podcasts and resources for actions to take.
- 7 courses that teach anti-racism.
- A comprehensive Anti-Asian Violence Resources list to help individuals educate others, take action, donate, and more
- Buzzfeed’s list of resources and tools to help Asian communities
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice resources in response to hate
- Hollaback! has published a Guide to Bystander Intervention and also offers virtual trainings
- The Asian Mental Health Collective has compiled a directory of APISAA therapists
- Mindful Sights hosts a free monthly Asian American Healing Space of “guided meditation, reflective reading, and community healing”
- Check out the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus