#ReparationsRace Resource List
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Support Black researchers with funding and cite their research.
Sponsor writers and content creators through patreon.
When you realize you've been re-posting and commenting on their stuff all week, send venmo, paypal, buymeacoffee, kofi.
Provide pro bono services and reduced community fairs for those with the need. Do NOT assume all Black people have a need. This is about payback and actively contributing to economic justice, not "helping the poor."
Support crowdfunding campaigns for Black startups and creative projects.
Read Black authors. Buy their damn books!
Have a list of speakers and people to refer to...Refuse to participate in an article, panel, conference or research team that is all white. Decline the invite and provide them other options, or say you'll do it if so-and-so joins too.
Make sure they get paid. Advocate for your team to get raises and make sure the Black people on your team are making the same as the white people.
Hire a person from the Global Majority for your next project. What for? Hire them to edit, design, code, do data analysis, marketing, PR, content, video, social media, copywriting...and scientists, doctors, therapists, teachers, tutors, lawyers, coaches) because WTAF that is a ridiculous question. Black people can do anything anyone else can...duh!
Subscribe to their podcasts.
GIVE CREDIT ALWAYS. Cite and quote Black people often––not just when discussing race or racism!!
Share their work and check bylines.
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Here are our the people we are currently supporting with work, money, amplification, services, and general admiration for their brilliance.
AJ Jefferson: Writer. Editor. Solopreneur. Accessibility Expert and Caregiver Activist.
Kara Smith: Writer. Producer. Executive Coaching and Strategic Consultant.
Jupiter Stone:
Lisa Hurley and Elizabeth Leiba: Co-founders of The Great Exhale community launching Juneteenth. Creators, entrepreneurs, experts in marketing and education respectively. Centering the Black experience and Black voices in a new startup community and publishing platform.
Directory of Black and other Global Majority change consultants, coaches, and academics - June 8, 2023
Where can you bank instead of the big banks who won't lend to Black founders? Put your money in Black-owned banks and credit unions.
First and foremost, , the brain child of Erin Corrine Johnson: and .
Madison Butler: . Subscribe to her newsletter. And check out the amazing list of talented people in and other curated lists.
: Writer of Sharon's Anti-racism newsletter. . Buy her book, , too. She's also co-founder of , whose aiming to empower others to lead the way to equality, via a leadership development programme, the . Hire them!
K Matāotama Strohl: They are a creator who does "work in psychological safety, mental health advocacy and boundary strategy for people who share my identities or lived experiences. I am Black, Sāmoan, Queer, Trans and a disabled veteran." Host of the podcast. .
Pharoah Bolding: "The World’s Greatest Comic Drawin’ HR Consultant"...
And 's fantastic curated lists of Black consultants and DEI experts on LinkedIn.
: Look for Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) "MDI is a formal federal designation for banks or credit unions that are either owned or directed primarily by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Native Americans. Minority depository institutions serve their communities by making a greater percentage of their home mortgage and small-business loans to minority and low-income borrowers than other financial institutions do."
#BankBlack
Choose community banks and bank small. It matters not only to communities but to the climate.
From last June: .
For a longer list of ways to support Black women and non-binary people, see the end of our Spring 2022 Writers Hot List and from "" published in The Ascent ahead of the 2020 election.
