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We stand in solidarity with the Black community, as we recognize the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, in history, and in this moment. We all have a responsibility to stand up for the lives of marginalized people in the world, and we need to start right here. Holocaust Museum Houston will begin featuring anti-racist and advocacy materials amplifying Black voices, including places to donate, petitions to sign, books to read, videos to watch, and podcasts to hear. Our institution sees the Black community, supports it, and will never stop fighting for each of your lives.
Organizations to support and follow on social media
Petitions to sign
Books to Read
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Bevely Daniel Tatum
White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Iscenberg
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Have Black LIves Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race Edited by Jesmyn Ward
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Llayla Saad
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Kahn-Cullors and Asha Bandele
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas
Intersectionality between Black Lives Matter movement and honoring Pride Month
Five Trailblazers You Should Know – National Museum of African American History & Culture
New Smithsonian places African American LGBT community in full view – Center for Black Equity
7 black LGBTQ leaders in honor of Juneteenth and Pride month – CNN
Bayard Rustin: The Man Who Organized The March On Washington – NPR’s Codeswitch
Andrea Jenkins, the first black trans woman in the U.S. to hold public office, on what we need to do to stop violence against trans women – NBC News
Honoring Black LGBTQ Icons – GLAD.org
8 Inspiring Queer Black Icons You Should Know About – Pride.com
Film and Television to Watch
The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
The Innocence Files (Netflix)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
13th (Netflix)
Just Mercy
When They See Us (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
The Hate U Give (HULU)
If Beale Street Could Talk (HULU)
Podcasts to Listen to
1619 by the New York Times
About Race
Codeswitch
Pod Save the People
Intersectionality Matters!