Black Lives Matter

In this episode, Bushra and Raida talk about how to be actively anti-racist and urge their South Asian community to challenge existing problematic mindsets and take action.

Helpful resources below:

Arizona Organizations to Donate to:

Black People’s Justice Fund - Metro Phoenix 
Phoenix Mutual Aid Network
Puente Human Rights Network

National Organizations to Donate to: 

George Floyd Memorial Fund
Justice for Breonna
Minnesota Freedom Fund
Black Visions Collective
Reclaim the Block
Campaign Zero
Unicorn Riot
The Bail Project
National Bail Out
National Bail Fund Network
Run With Maud
The Innocent Project
Anti Police-Terror Project

Essential Reading for Anti-Racism Work:

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can We Talk about Race? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Shows and Films to Watch:

13th 
American Son 
See You Yesterday
If Beale Street Could Talk
When They See Us
Dear White People
Little Fires Everywhere
THe Hate U Give
Black Power Mixtape
Clemency
Fruitvale Station
Just Mercy
Selma