This list is only just one evolving document and is in no way exhaustive of the vast range of resources you can discover. Let this be a supplement to your own investigation, introspection, and action planning.
If you have recommendations, criticisms, etc, please email info@CinemaArtsCentre.org
Organizations to Donate to:
- The Bail Project
- Black Visions Collective
- Minnesota Freedom Fund
- National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Donate with No Money
Black LGBTQ Organizations:
Supporting Local Black-owned Business and Organizations:
- Find your local NAACP
- Black-owned Long Island
- List of Black owned LI Businesses
Education:
- blacklivesmatter.carrd.co
- Anti-Racism Project
- The Anti-Racism Project offers participants ways to examine the crucial and persistent issue of racism. Working with facilitators and a well- designed curriculum, drawn from a variety of sources, participants engage in interactive experiences to examine the realities of institutionalized racism, internalized racism, white privilege, and the myths of immigration in order to understand how they feed ongoing racial injustice.
- Erase Racism
- Long Island’s segregation
- Newsday report
- NYtimes report
- Thirteen MetroFocus
- Riverhead Local
- How Long Island Remains Segregated
- School segregation
- Why ‘All Lives Matter’ is wrong
- Anti-Racism
- Where do you fit on the racism scale?
- Being Anti- Racist
- The Racial Disparity in our Judicial Systems
- For Business Owners:
Organize & Protest:
- Protests
- Be sure to double check who is organizing the protest
- JusticeforGeorgeLI
- JusticeforGeorge_Longisland
MEDIA
Watch List:
- Watch the short film Department of Injustice
- What happens if you call the Department of Justice to report an incident of violence? Who picks up the phone? DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, from filmmakers Travis Wood and Chloe Gbai, fictionalizes that premise with a comment on the state of justice and accountability regarding police violence in America, in the wake of George Floyds death.
- It is recommended to not only watch films by Black directors, but read Black critics such as:
- ARRAY – Ava DuVernay’s Film Festival
- Problematic Films to avoid; if not for analysis
- The Blind Side
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Green Book
- Instead, see Green Book: Guide to Freedom
- The Help
- Netflix
- Films (not on Netflix) Recommended and/or Recently or Previously Shown at the Cinema Arts Centre
- Clemency (Cinema had to cancel screening due to COVID-10)
- Do the Right Thing
- Get Out
- Green Book: Guide to Freedom
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- I Am Not Your Negro
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Queen & Slim
- Sorry to Bother You
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
- Us
Reading List:
- Free eBooks:
- James Baldwin
- Notes of a Native Son (1955)
- Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes from a Native Son (1961)
- The Fire Next Time (1963)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
- Toni Morrison
- Michelle Alexander
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Social Media:
- Do not use the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter if you are not posting Action Items;
- Black Lives Matter
- Ava DuVernay
