"Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people."
- Ibram X. Kendi
Law enforcement in the age of Black Lives Matter : policing black and brown bodies by
There is a reason why people claim great respect for officers of the law: the job, by description, is hard--if not deadly. It takes a certain kind of person to accept the consequences of the job-- seeing the very worst situations, on a regular basis, and knowing that one's life is on the line every hour of every day. Working in law enforcement is emotionally and psychologically draining. It affects these public servants both on and off the job. Said plainly, shaking an officers' hand when you see them or posting a sign in the front yard that reads "Support the Badge" is lip service. Even going as far as to donate money to a crowdsourcing fundraising site does little to support the long-term professional development needs of officers. These are surface level signs of solidarity, and do little in terms of showing respect for the job and those who do it. For those who want to do more, this text provides reasons and a rationale for doing better by these public servants. Showing respect does not mean that one agrees with whatever another person or institution claims to be the "right" way. Showing respect and admiration means that we charge individuals to live up to their fullest potentials and integrate innovation wherever possible. In the case of policing in the era of Black Lives Matters, policing as usual simply is not an option any longer. It is disrespectful, to both the officers and those who are being policed, to rest on the laurels of past policing tactics. As we enter a time period in which police interactions are recorded (dash cams or body cams, for example) and new populations are being targeted (Latinx people), there is much to learn about what is working and what is not.
Policing the planet : why the policing crisis led to black lives matter by
"A probing collection of essays and interviews addressing police brutality and racial injustice. Policing has become one of the urgent issues of our time, the target of dramatic movements and front-page coverage from coast to coast in the United States and across the world. Now a wide-ranging collection of writers and activists offers a global response, describing ongoing struggles from New York to Ferguson to Los Angeles, as well as London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond. This book, combining first-hand accounts from organizers with the interventions of scholars and contributions by leading artists, traces the global rise of the "broken-windows" strategy of policing, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton, a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power and contributed to the contemporary crisis of policing that has been sparked by notorious incidents of police brutality and killings. With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and St. Louis University law professor Justin Hansford, poet Martín Espada, scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D.G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and many more"-- Provided by publisher.
Suspicion nation : the inside story of the Trayvon Martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it by 
Teaching for Black Lives by
Black Students' Lives Matter : Building the school-to-justice pipeline / the editors of Rethinking Schools -- How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students' Lives Matter / Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian -- Student Athletes Kneel to Level the Playing Field / Jesse Hagopian -- Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow : Teaching the ongoing murders of Black men / Renée Watson -- Space for Young Black Women : An interview with Candice Valenzuela / Jody Sokolower -- Trayvon Martin and My Students : Writing toward justice / Linda Christensen -- Two Sets of Notes / MK Asante -- Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy into Schools / Adam Sanchez -- A Vision for Black Lives : Policy demands for Black power, freedom, and justice / the Movement for Black Lives coalition -- The Color Line : How white elites sought to divide and conquer in the American colonies / Bill Bigelow -- Presidents and Slaves : Helping students find the truth / Bob Peterson -- When Black Lives Mattered : Why teach Reconstruction / Adam Sanchez -- Reconstructing the South : A role play / Bill Bigelow -- Medical Apartheid : Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study / Gretchen Kraig-Turner -- Beyond Just a Cells Unit : What my science students learned from the story of Henrietta Lacks / Gretchen Kraig-Turner -- Teaching SNCC : The organization at the heart of the civil rights revolution / Adam Sanchez -- Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington / Bill Fletcher Jr. -- Reflections of a "Deseg Baby" / Linda Mizell -- What We Don't Learn About the Black Panther Party--but Should / Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian -- COINTELPRO : Teaching the FBI's war on the Black freedom movement / Ursula Wolfe-Rocca -- Burned Out of Homes and History : Unearthing the silenced voices of the Tulsa Race Riot / Linda Christensen -- "The Most Gentrified City of the Century" / Becky HenkleBerry and Jeff Waters -- What Do You Mean When You Say Urban? Speaking honestly about race and students / Dyan Watson -- Vacancies to Fill : Considering desire in the past and future of Chicago's vacant schools / Eve L. Ewing -- Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance / Bridget Brew, Crystal Proctor, and Adam Renner -- Bearing Witness Through Poetry / Renée Watson -- Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti : Neoliberalism off the Richter scale / Jesse Hagopian -- Lead Poisoning : Bringing social justice to chemistry / Karen Zaccor -- Jailing Our Minds / Abbie Cohen -- Schools and the New Jim Crow : An interview with Michelle Alexander / Jody Sokolower -- Racial Justice Is Not a Choice : White supremacy, high-stakes testing, and the punishment of Black and Brown students / Wayne Au -- How K-12 Schools Push Out Black Girls : An interview with Monique W. Morris / Kate Stoltzfus -- Haniyah's Story / Haniyah Muhammad -- Teaching Haniyah / Jody Sokolower -- Teaching the Prison-Industrial Complex / Aparna Lakshmi -- Restorative Justice : What it is and is not / the editors of Rethinking Schools -- Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice / Linea King -- A Talk to Teachers / James Baldwin -- Black Like Me / Renée Watson -- Dear White Teacher / Chrysanthius Lathan -- Black Boys in White Spaces : One mom's reflection / Dyan Watson -- "Raised by Women" : Celebrating our homes / Linda Christensen -- Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class / Clint Smith -- #MeToo and The Color Purple / Linda Christensen -- Queering Black History and Getting Free / Dominique Hazzard -- Rethinking Islamophobia : Combating bigotry by raising the voices of Black Muslims / Alison Kysia -- Rethinking Identity : Afro-Mexican history / Michelle Nicola -- Brown Kids Can't Be in Our Club : Teaching 6-year-olds about skin color, race, culture, and respect / Rita Tenorio -- A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son / Dyan Watson -- Black Is Beautiful / Kara Hinderlie
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir by
Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, the author experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For the author, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. The author asserts that Black Americans have been targeted by a criminal justice system that serves a white privilege agenda, and are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, her outrage led her to co-found the Black Lives Matter movement with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, the women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who have turned a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of black and brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, the author transformed personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality, and forming a movement fueled by strength and love, to tell the country - and the world - that Black Lives Matter.--adapted from dust jacket.
"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser commissioned 16th Street N.W. near the White House to be painted with the words “Black Lives Matter,” and renamed the nearby street, “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” -The Afro American Newspaper Company
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