RESOURCES

Mental Health

The following are some of the organizations and their contact details for those suffering any other kind of mental illness across the USA.

Mental Health Hotline: 866-677-5924

National Alliance on Mental illness: 800-950-6264
https://www.nami.org/Home

Support line for stress, depression, anxiety, or drug and alcohol use:
https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en

Suicide Prevention: 800-273-8255
Depression and bipolar support Alliance:
https://www.dbsalliance.org/

Crisis Text Line text HOME to 741741

Trans Lifeline - 1-888-843-4564

LGBT National Hotline 1- 888-843-4564

The Trevor Lifeline 1-800-565-8860 *Spanish

Immigrants Rising Mental Health Connector - Provides free 1:1 sessions for undocumented young adults (18-30)

Therapy Den - access to a range of therapist support

Mental Health Match - match with a therapist - search is like a dating matching site

Open Path Collective - affordable therapy - sessions between $30-60

Mental Health Support for Black, Asian, Latine and LGBTQAI+ folks:

Ayana Therapy - Online therapy for marginalized and intersectional communities. Free therapy for frontline workers.

The Loveland Foundation - Offers free therapy funding for Black women & girlsBOOKS

Therapy for Black Girls - Find trusted, culturally competent therapists that know our feelings and can help navigate being a strong, black woman.

Inclusive Therapists - Great clinicians for BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled and Neurodivergent folks

Therapy for Latine - Easy to navigate and a strong pool of clinicians for the Latinx community

Latinx Therapy - a bilingual podcast and national directory to find a Latine Therapist

Asian Mental Health - AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide

TransWIN - Gender affirming care. Providers have been endorsed by a trans/nonbinary person

We Glimmer - A digital wellness platform for LGBTQIA+ folks

“When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media is Enough” 

Psychiatrist Dr. Imani J. Walker outlines a number of measures that people of color can take to promote their well being in the wake of police violence happening in our own communities and elsewhere.

How to Raise a Black Son in America 

This acclaimed TED talk by writer and academic Clint Smith explores the unique challenges inherent in black parenting, as well as some of the broader implications of being black in the United States.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The mission of this organization is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Parenting for liberation

Parenting for Liberation is a virtual community that connects, inspires, and uplifts Black folks as they navigate and negotiate raising Black children within the social and political context of the US.

The Nap Ministry

We believe rest is a form of resistance and reparations

BOOKS

Restorative Yoga for ethnic and race-based stress and trauma by Dr. Parker.

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Shelia Wise Rowe

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin and Robert Bonazzi

How we fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

All About Love by Bell Hooks

The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

My Grandmother’s Hands - Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

MEDITATION EXERCISES

Black Lives Matters Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma by Dr. Candice Nicole

Soulfullness4life - uses a culturally congruent approach to mindfulness

APPS

Liberate app: Liberate is the no1 meditation app for the Black and Brown, Indigenous community. Listen to dozens of guided meditations to ease anxiety, find gratitude, heal internalized racism and micro-aggressions and celebrate Blackness.

The Safe Place: a Minority Mental Health App geared towards the Black Community to bring awareness, education and hope.

PODCASTS

Brown girl safe-care

Homecoming with Dr. Thema

Let’s Talk Bruh

Free Your Energy

Beginning and continuing the work

Understanding Privilege

We all hold elements of privilege. Understanding how and in what ways you hold privilege is key to not only being an advocate and ally, yet also fundamental in building a more equitable society.

The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops

This piece from The Conversation explores the oft-neglected origins of modern American policing in antebellum-era slave patrols. 

MappingPoliceViolence.com

This resource addresses gaps in city-reported data to provide what is thought to be one of the most complete accounts of police killings in the United States.

Racial Equity Tools

is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

A list of actions that white people can take to counter anti-black racism as it manifests in contexts ranging from city governments to one’s own interpersonal practices and approaches to childrearing.

The Conversation We Must Have with Our White Children 

Courtney E. Martin, author of The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream, offers concrete suggestions to parents about how to raise white children with an awareness of racism, and cultivate their sense of responsibility for challenging it within themselves and the world around them

When White Women Cry

This article focuses on the tension that arises as the result of the intersection of social identities, namely gender and race.

Native Land Map

Learn what land you reside on that was stolen from Indigenous people.

Native Land Acknowledgment

Understand more about how you can acknowledge, honor and learn about the land you now reside on.

ANTI-RACIST EDUCATORS

Monique Melton Anti-Racist Educator, Author, Podcast Host, Speaker

Sincerely Lettie Historian, Anti-Racist Educator, Podcast Host, Racial Justice Advocate

According to Weeze Trauma informed guide to liberation via decolonization & anti-racism

Check Your Privilege Guiding folx on their journey to dismantle their relationship with power, privilege & racism

The Great Unlearn by Rachel Cargle

YK Hong Anti-oppression culture shifter + Tech justice

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS & SOCIAL JUSTICE SUPPORT

Until Freedom a social justice organization rooted in the leadership of diverse people of color to address systemic and racial injustice. Currently leading the fight for justice for Breonna Taylor.

The Bail Project provides free bail assistance to low-income individuals who are legally presumed innocent, and whom a judge has deemed eligible for release before trial contingent on paying bail. We enable our clients to return home to their families and communities while awaiting their court dates. We call this model Community Release with Support. 

Blackwomensblueprint Engage in progressive research, historical documentation, policy advocacy and organizing steeped in the struggles of Black women within their diverse communities and within dominant culture

Liberty Fund The Liberty Fund is dedicated to reducing the number of New Yorkers subjected to unnecessary pretrial detention while simultaneously providing much needed social services to this population.

joincampaignzero Working to end police violence in America. Calling on local, state, and federal lawmakers to take immediate action to adopt data-driven policy solutions to end this violence and hold police accountable.

Move to End Violence Move to End Violence supports leaders in the U.S. movement to end violence against girls and women to step back from their daily work to envision the change they want to see, imagine new strategies, and build the capacity needed to realize this change.

The Thrive Agenda a plan for economic renewal to address the inequality and racism the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare.

Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice by Megan Ming Francis

BOOKS

Anti-Racist Reading List

Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. 

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods.

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by Bell Hooks

These twenty-three essays are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. They address a spectrum of topics having to do with race and racism in the United States: psychological trauma among African Americans; friendship between black women and white women; anti-Semitism and racism; and internalized racism in movies and the media. 

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”

Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

Your Silence will not Protect You by Audre Lorde

A beautiful new collection of Audre Lorde's essays, speeches and poems gathered together 

I’m Still Here; Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

A powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations. 

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire by Akala

Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Nativesspeaks directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire.

Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusogo

Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.

The Other Slavery - The Uncovered story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez

A landmark history — the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century

African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights. Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists revealing the radically different ways that brown and black people of the diaspora addressed issues plaguing the United States today.