Sign These Petitions:

#DefundThePolice

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Tony McDade

Justice For Big Floyd

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery

Hands Up Act

Murder Charges for all 4 Officers

More Petitions to Sign

Text or Call:

Text “JUSTICE” to 668366

Text “FLOYD” to 55156 - demand justice for Floyd

Text “ENOUGH” to 55156 - demand justice for Breonna Taylor

Get in contact with the Minneapolis District Attorney to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd.

Contact your local Representative to make sure your local police department is taking the necessary preventative measures to ensure that incidents like this will not occur in the future. Commit to calling your rep today.

Prosecutor Directory

Simple Action Steps:

  1. Make sure you are registered to vote and request an absentee ballot if necessary.
  2. Examine who you follow on social media, and diversify the voices that are present.
  3. If you are feeling overwhelmed, find one cause to donate to today. Tomorrow, choose one resource to read and digest. Make a commitment to educate yourself daily.
  4. LISTEN.

Show Up and Protest:

Protesting Safely

White People: Create a Physical Barrier

If you cannot show up physically, you can still show support by donating to the National Bail Out Fund, or your local Bail Out Fund and by sharing these resources on social media.

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Black Lives Matter

National Bail Out Fund

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Showing Up for Racial Justice

Campaign Zero

The Loveland Foundation

The Marshall Project

Color of Change

Bail Out Fund Google Doc

The Pinky Cole Foundation

Follow, Listen and Amplify Black Voices:

Kimberly Renee

Tabitha Brown

Rachel Cargle

Ava Duvernay

Akilah Hughes

Clint Smith

Erika Hart

Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Layla F. Saad

Kendriana Washington

Charlene Carruthers

Ibram X. Kendi

Candace Reels

Ashley Ford

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Myisha T. Hill

Deray McKesson

*Do not DM or email these people looking for further help. Instead, read and learn from the resources they’ve provided. Give them credit and amplify their voices!

Food and Racism:

What is vegan racism? Vegan Race Wars: how the mainstream ignores vegans of color.

Food Love by Might Be Vegan

“COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting the health of Black and Latino communities largely due to underlying, diet-related health issues. These poor diets are the result of generations of racially-biased systemic issues that have led to disproportionate access to healthy, fresh food, and quality healthcare. Thankfully, not only have diets rich in plant-based foods been proven to improve immune systems, but they also have been shown to reverse many of these diet-related illnesses over time.” - Kimberly Renee, Food Love

Donate to Food Love by Might Be Vegan. Splendid Spoon is choosing to donate to this organization to help people (especially Black, Brown, and those living in low-income communities) who are experiencing food insecurity, gain direct-to-door access to fresh, healthy plant-based food.

Local (NYC and Brooklyn) resources about community gardens, food deserts, etc can be found at Urban Harvest and Central Brooklyn’s Food Coop.

Central Brooklyn Food Coop (CBFC) is one of the only urban Black-led food cooperatives in the nation – and the only one in New York City. After six years of surveying and planning, they are ready to take root and open our doors in Summer 2020. Help them take the critical step of raising funds for their inaugural down payment so they can secure their home.

Organizations to Follow:

Audre Lorde Project

Color of Change

The Conscious Kid

Equal Justice Initiative

Showing Up For Racial Justice

No White Saviors

Communities United for Police Reform

Antiracism Center: Twitter

Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Reading Assignments:

End Police Violence in America

White Homework

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist

Rachel Cargle: The Great Unlearn

Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”

America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us

Books and Articles:

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Black Feminist Thought

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Heavy: An American Memoir

How To Be An Antiracist

Me and White Supremacy

Raising Our Hands

Sister Outsider

So You Want to Talk About Race

The Fire Next Time

Layla Saad: Me & My White Supremacy

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

The Combahee River Collective Statement

The Intersectionality Wars

Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

News Resources, Podcasts, and Videos to Consume:

Loud and Clear with Eugene Puryear on Sputnik News

Breakthrough News

Hear to Slay

What a day

The Nod

It’s been a minute

Small Doses

Code Switch

Still Processing

Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

About Race

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

Seeing White

Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

Movies to Watch:

13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

King In The Wilderness  — HBO

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Resources for Talking to Children:

Police and Protests

Talking About Race

Resources That Can Help

Social Awareness

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

Fare of the Free Child podcast

PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

More Anti-Racism Resources to Check Out:

Anti-Racism Articles, Books, Films, Podcasts

An Antiracist Reading List

Black Lives Matter Resources

How To Be An Antiracist

Anti-Racism Resources

75 Things White People Can Do

Anti-Racism Project

Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

“Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

See our Instagram post for Splendid Spoon's statement of solidarity and action.