Donate, Watch, Read: Resources in the Fight Against Racial Injustice

At SXSW we stand with the Black community and will continue to elevate the voices and ideas that lead us to a more equitable world.

Please consider donating to these organizations that are diligently working to effect profound societal reform. It’s time to acknowledge that we need real change, not the veneer of change.

And please take some time to watch some of the leaders in tech, media, healthcare, politics, and culture that we’ve been honored to have speak at SXSW in recent years. Their powerful points of view around their own stories, as well as their bigger picture perspectives, are well worth a listen.

Lastly, we’ve included a list of books and articles we recommend as we all work to become better informed allies and find the next steps toward progress.

Donate

• Austin Justice Coalition

• Black Lives Matter Global Movement

• Black Visions Collective

• Campaign Zero / #8CantWait

• Color of Change

• Girls for a Change

• The Loveland Foundation

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund

• National Bail Out

• Project South

• Reclaim the Block

Watch

• Barack Obama Keynote

• Stacey Abrams | Lead from the Outside: How to Make Real Change

• W. Kamau Bell, Luvvie Ajayi, and April Reign | United-ish

• Kimberly Bryant | Behind the Click: Securing the Future for Black Women and Girls in Tech

• Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Power of the Word

• Ava DuVernay Keynote

• Henry Louis Gates, Ken Burns, and Todd Boyd | Race in America

• Arlan Hamilton | Building Backstage Capital from the Ground Up

• Barry Jenkins Keynote

• Van Jones | The Messy Truth

• Kwame Onwuachi | COVID Activism and Notes from a Young Black Chef

• Bernard Tyson | Reconnecting the Mind to the Body

Read

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston

• The American Nightmare by Ibram X. Kendi in The Atlantic

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward