BLACK LIVES MATTER
Resources for action and change
We are using our platform to spotlight Black Deaf-owned businesses, organizations, and anti-racism resources to amplify the voices of Black members in our community. The goal is to provide resources to encourage education and dismantle racism and bias in our country by championing active organizations and small businesses.
As a company, we will make a conscious effort to continually educate ourselves and support the Black community. We won’t always get it right but we are committed to doing the work of allyship.
Have something to add?
This list is a collection of resources in different categories: ACT, DONATE, SUPPORT, READ, & WATCH. If you have resource recommendations for us to add, please send them to marketing@convorelay.com.
Act
Call / E-mail
Contact your congresspeople and ask them to support Representatives Pressley and Omar’s resolution condemning police brutality
Sign Petitions
Donate
There are many wonderful organizations that can use your donations, here are some options to get you started!
Support
Black Deaf Organizations
Black Organizations
Black Deaf Business
Read
Articles
Deaf-related
General
More Trainings Are Not the Answer to Police Violence Against Disabled People
Teachers Must Hold Themselves Accountable for Dismantling Racial Oppression
THE GEORGE FLOYD KILLING IN MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSES THE FAILURES OF POLICE REFORM
Talking about Race | Includes free resources from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Books
Where we spend our money matters. Because of that, we encourage purchasing books from Black Owned bookstores in your area. Here are two links to help you find bookstores you can support: Conde Nast Traveler | Literary Hub
Deaf-related
Black and Deaf in America | by Ernest Halston & Linwood Smith
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South | by Mary Herring Wright
God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 | by Dave Bakke
Deaf, Dumb and Black | by Mary Miller – Hall
Unspeakable: The Story of Junis Wilson | by Susan Burch
The Segregated Georgia School for the Deaf: 1882-1975 | by Ron Knorr & Clemmie Whatley
General
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle | by Angela Davis
How to Be an Antiracist | by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race | by Ijeoma Oluo
The Fire Next Time | by James Baldwin
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement | by Wesley Lowery
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness | by Michelle Alexander
Between The World And Me | by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Your Silence Will Not Protect You | by Audre Lorde
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | by Robin DiAngelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Race, Work and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience | Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, David A. Thomas
The Person You Mean to Be | Dolly Chugh
Watch
Articles
Deaf-related
General
13th | Netflix
American Son | Netflix
Dear White People | Netflix
If Beale St. Could Talk | Hulu
Just Mercy | Prime
King in the Wilderness | HBO
See You Yesterday | Netflix
The Hate You Give | Cinemax
When They See Us | Netflix
