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    Black Lives Matter. Period.

    I don't have a monologue to start this off with. I would like to take some time to post resources for folks, that want to learn about the movement. Please feel free to post your own links to resources, articles, news and discuss what this means to you.

    Resources:
    https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/ - "#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives."

    https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/ - "The American Immigration Council works to strengthen America by shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration and by working toward a more fair and just immigration system that opens its doors to those in need of protection and unleashes the energy and skills that immigrants bring."
    https://www.sentencingproject.org/ - "Founded in 1986, The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration."
    https://www.blackgirlscode.com/ - "Our Vision: To increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040."
    https://www.tmcf.org/ - "Established in 1987, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the Black College Community. TMCF member-schools include the publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs)."

    Articles:
    Racism. It Stops With Me is a national campaign that provides tools and resources to help people and organisations learn about racism and take action to create change. The campaign invites us to ask ourselves important questions about the role of racism in shaping society, the way we see ourselves and how we interact with one another. To explore these questions and find out more information, visit the About the campaign section of this website.


    Podcasts:
    Armchair Expert - Heather McGhee - Heather McGhee is an American political commentator, political strategist, currently a distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos, a non-profit progressive U.S. think tank.
    Armchair Expert - Ibram X Kendi - Ibram X. Kendi is an American author and historian who teaches at American University. From July 2020, Kendi will join Boston University to launch the BU Center for Antiracist Research.
    Code Switch -*NPR's multi-racial, multi-generational journalistic podcast focused on race, ethnicity, and culture in the 21st century.
    1619 -*The podcast component of the New York Times series about the ways slavery built and transformed America.
    About Race -*The now-ended Panoply podcast starring Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby, "about the ways we can't talk, don't talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege."
    Seeing White -*A 14-part podcast documentary series from Scene on Radio that seeks to answer the question of where "whiteness" even comes from, and what it's for.
    Pod Save the People -*Activist and organizer DeRay McKesson's popular social justice and politics podcast on the Crooked Media network, with co-hosts Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Sam Sinyangwe, and Dr. Clint Smith.

    I'm sure this doesn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway. This is a very hot button topic. Please keep conversation relevant, constructive and level headed.
    Bigotry will not be tolerated, regardless of what side you're on, so please think before you post.
    �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Short Videos

    Be Brave, Speak Up by North Melbourne Football Club
    StandUp to Racism - Rugby by Australian Human Rights Commission ("AHRC")
    StandUp to Racism - AFL by AHRC
    Elevator by AHRC
    Taxi by AHRC
    Racism. It Stops With Me. AFL Adelaid announcement by AHRC
    What you say matters. Racism. It Stops With Me. Featuring Brothablack -AHRC
    The Invisible Discriminator by Beyond Blue
    Missing Chapter by Vox (revisits under-reported moments from the past to give context to the present)
    Speaks Volumes Anti Racism Activist & Educator Jane Elliot Speaks To White Citizens On Receiving by Alyssa Foster

    Uncensored video below:


    Tik Tok:
    https://vm.tiktok.com/JJ97R79/ - Rynn on Tik Tok
    �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    Sneak Attack
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      Books

      Book List (per Medium):
      Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
      When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
      Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
      How to be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming

      Book List (per Portland Mercury):
      So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
      White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
      How to Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X Kendl
      They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
      The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
      Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
      Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
      The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
      Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940-2000 by Karen J. Gibson

      Children's Books

      Antiracist Baby by Ibram X Kendi
      Book List of 20 Children's Books about the Civil Rights Movement by Feminist Books for Kids
      �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
      ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
      Sneak Attack
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        Movies / Film

        13th
        Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

        Just Mercy
        We believe in the power of story. Our film just mercy, based on the life work of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, is one resource we can humbly offer to those who are interested in learning more about the systemic racism that plagues our society. For the month of June, just mercy will be available to rent for free across digital platforms in the us.

        Movie List (per Portland Mercury)

        The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975DAVE SEGAL

        Selma
        Director Ava DuVernay's willingness to engage with this particularly American history of violence sets Selma apart—portraying a movement on film is an impossible task, but if DuVernay has succeeded, it's in the way Selma forces a kind of reckoning for its viewer. MEGAN BURBANK

        I Am Not Your Negro
        In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project—a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

        Fruitvale Station
        Oscar Grant was the unarmed 22-year-old black man who was shot to death by a transit cop in an Oakland train station—Fruitvale Station—on January 1, 2009. At trial, the officer convinced the jury that he mistook his gun for a Taser. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, he served 11 months and was home before the year was out. In a way, Grant himself is on trial in Fruitvale Station, humanized compassionately yet unflinchingly on the big screen. But ultimately, you need only ask yourself: Why does this man have to prove he doesn't deserve to be killed? In our culture, who has to prove themselves and who doesn't? JEN GRAVES

        Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon? A Hidden History
        A filmed 2014 presentation at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art by PSU adjunct professor and writer Walidah Imarisha, covering aspects of Oregon history not taught in local schools, a history steeped in Black exclusion and discrimination, answering the question "Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?"

        If Beale Street Could Talk
        Moonlight director Barry Jenkins' masterful adaptation of James Baldwin's novel perfectly captures how macro issues—particularly the rigged systems that work against Black people in America—affect one family like shuddering, foundation-shaking aftershocks. ROBERT HAM

        Queen & Slim
        Queen & Slim may be the best—and is almost certainly the Blackest—film of 2019, and is perhaps most poignant for its gorgeous, complex, and multifaceted portrayal of the Black experience, where sparks of joy and love exist alongside pain, struggle, and oppression; a new American romance/drama written in the Black American language, told via a fully Black lens, and including a diverse array of characters who show that Black people are not a monolith. JENNI MOORE

        Arresting Power
        Making good use of rare (and expensive) archival footage from the Oregon Historical Society, the local documentary Arresting Power is at its strongest when telling the origin story of Portland’s police accountability movement—providing potent evidence that the marches and demands for change that erupted post-Ferguson are part of a decades-long tradition started by our city’s African American community. Many of those leaders also appear on camera, sharing their wisdom alongside testimonials from community members like Shirley Isadore, whose daughter Kendra James was killed by Portland police in 2003. It’s a good primer for anyone who cares about accountability. DENIS C. THERIAULT

        When They See Us
        Ava DuVernay's award-winning Netflix miniseries about the injustices visited upon Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana Jr., Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, and their eventual exoneration. DuVernay's media company and arts collective ARRAY has released a learning guide for families and educators to use when watching the miniseries with children.

        Blindspotting
        In rapidly gentrifying Oakland, Collin (Daveed Diggs) is trying to survive his last three days of probation when the slightest infraction will send him back to jail. However, his best friend Miles (Rafael Casal) is white, wild, and reckless. Collin should avoid Miles, but he doesn’t. While trying to get home before curfew late one night, he witnesses a rogue cop pursue and shoot a fleeing black man. CARL SPENCE

        Priced Out
        Cornelius Swart’s Priced Out assembles a wealth of information about the history of gentrification in the Black neighborhoods of North and Northeast Portland. This film is a follow-up to NorthEast Passage, a documentary Swart, a longtime reporter, co-produced in 2002; that film's central figure, Nikki Williams, spoke in favor of gentrification. Priced Out juxtaposes Williams’ current perspective with the recent developments that have turned several Portland neighborhoods into playgrounds for white newcomers. It’s as fascinating to watch as it is devastating to comprehend. SUZETTE SMITH

        The Murder of Fred Hampton
        In the late '60s, Fred Hampton became one of the most powerful voices in the Black activist movement, rising to the ranks of deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party and helping found the Rainbow Coalition, a multicultural group that united a disparate batch of Chicago community groups all fighting on behalf of civil rights and racial equality. So powerful that he was deemed a radical and was killed in a raid of his apartment by the Chicago police and the FBI. Director Howard Alk's 1971 documentary, offered up for streaming via Portland's Church of Film, is a damning expose into Hampton's death and an unforgettable portrait of his short but deeply impactful life. ROBERT HAM
        �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
        ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
        Sneak Attack
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          Black Lives Matter
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          We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. -Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

          I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
          It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
          Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
          -Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse

          Service to your fellows is the root of peace.

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            #6
            Re: Black Lives Matter. Period.

            Thank you!
            "If you want to know what a man is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." -- Sirius Black

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