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90 Ways to Amplify Black Voices

Silence is not an option. Neither is ignorance. Check out Playboy's tool kit for cultural self-education

Civil Liberties • June 4, 2020
Written by THE PLAYBOY EDITORS


Books:

  1. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  2. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
  3. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  4. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
  5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  6. How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  7. Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
  8. I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi
  9. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore
  10. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Films, Documentaries and Series:

  1. 13th
  2. The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
  3. Dear White People
  4. Grass Is Greener
  5. I Am Not Your Negro
  6. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
  7. When They See Us
  8. Frontline: A Class Divided
  9. Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
  10. Soul Power

Podcasts:

  1. Code Switch: NPR
  2. The Read
  3. Intersectionality Matters With Kimberlé Crenshaw
  4. AfroPunk Solution Sessions
  5. Black Girl In Om
  6. 1619
  7. Hella Black Pod
  8. Bodega Boys
  9. Still Processing
  10. Snap Judgment With Glynn Washington

Leaders in Black Style:

  1. Union Los Angeles
  2. Noah Clothing
  3. APT.4B
  4. Joefreshgoods
  5. Pyer Moss
  6. Brooklyn Circus
  7. Bephie
  8. Burn Rubber Detroit
  9. Total Luxury Spa
  10. Ikiré Jones

Black Joy (Music):

  1. Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Documentary)
  2. Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon (Documentary)
  3. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Documentary)
  4. Quincy (Documentary)
  5. Miles Ahead (Film)
  6. New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), Erykah Badu (Album)
  7. To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar (Album)
  8. Awaken, My Love!, Childish Gambino (Album)
  9. Ghetto Lenny’s Love Songs, SAINt JHN (Album)
  10. Nina Simone In Concert, Nina Simone (Album)

Beautiful Black Art:

  1. Loveis Wise
  2. Kehinde Wiley
  3. Jamel Shabazz
  4. Kerry James Marshall
  5. Nick Cave
  6. Glenn Ligon
  7. Kara Walker
  8. Toyin Ojih Odutola
  9. Nina Chanel Abney
  10. Lorna Simpson

Voices in the Black Art Community:

  1. California African American Museum
  2. The Underground Museum
  3. Shantell Martin
  4. For Freedoms
  5. Hank Willis Thomas
  6. Museum Mammy
  7. Gordon Parks Foundation
  8. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
  9. Carrie Mae Weems
  10. The Studio Museum in Harlem

Articles to Read:

  1. The 1619 Project
  2. The Case for Reparations
  3. The Combahee River Collective Statement
  4. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
  5. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
  6. The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
  7. ‘You Promised You Wouldn’t Kill Me’
  8. Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing
  9. Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee
  10. Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge

Organziations

  1. SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
  2. Antiracist Research & Policy Center (ARPC)
  3. Audre Lorde Project
  4. Color of Change
  5. Colorlines
  6. The Conscious Kid
  7. Equal Justice Initiative
  8. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  9. NAACP
  10. Showing Up for Racial Justice

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