University of California
UC statement on protests, violence following George Floyd’s death
UCLA
UCLA Leaders express solidarity with the protest against racial injustice
Resources for Racial Trauma
Nation Organizations
AAMC AAMC Statement on Police Brutality and Racism in America and Their Impact on Health
American Academy of Family Physicians Institutional Racism in the Health Care System
American Medical Association Police brutality must stop
American Psychiatric Association (APA) Condemns APAPolice Brutality, Calls for Dialogue to Ease Civil Unrest
Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/
California Medical Association Response to death of George Floyd and institutionalized racism in America
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Statement Surrounding the Events of Protest in Minneapolis
National Medical Association (NMA) NMA Calls for Comprehensive Reform in Response to Police Use of Excessive Force
Articles of Interest
How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
Physiological & Psychological Impact of Racism and Discrimination for African-Americans
Teaching about Race, Racism, and Police Violence A herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”
Reframing ‘Blake Lives Matter’
White Privilege – Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack- essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege:A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies"
Unequal Treatment Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2003) Consensus Study Report
Books
How to be an antiracist author Iram X. Kendi
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Ted Talks
The problem with race-based medicine-Dorothy Roberts
50 years of racism – why silence isn’t the answer – James A. White Sr.
The power of privilege: Tiffany Jana TEDxRVAWomen
Understanding My Privilege-Sue Borrego
Additional resources poste by UCLA School of Law Resources 06/18/2020
Juneteenth Events in and around Los Angeles (You can find more information about other events all over the United States and the world at Six-Nineteen.)
• http://nationaljuneteenth.com/History.html • https://www.juneteenth.com/ • http://www.nationaljuneteenth.com/ • https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/juneteenth-birth-african-american-holiday-2/ • https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/historical-legacy-juneteenth • https://www.hellajuneteenth.com/juneteenth-history
Organizations with Opportunities for Engagement • African American Policy Forum • Black and Pink • Black Futures Lab • Black Lives Matter Los Angeles • Black Lives Matter National • Black Visions Collective • Dignity and Power Now • Equal Justice Initiative • Justice LA • Law for Black Lives • List of Local Bail Funds • Los Angeles Community Action Network • Movement for Black Lives • National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles • People's Budget LA • Reclaim the Block • Youth Justice Coalition Memorial Funds
• Tony McDade Memorial Fund • George Floyd Memorial Fund • Ahmaud Arbery Memorial Fund • Breonna Taylor Memorial Fund Read • The Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project
On June 11, the Association of American Law Schools launched the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project, curated by Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Rutgers Law School Dean Kimberly Mutcherson, Washburn University School of Law Carla D. Pratt, Howard University School of Law Dean Danielle Holley-Walker and Penn State Dickinson Law Dean Danielle M. Conway. The project’s goal is to establish a commitment to “a sustained Antiracist agenda,” in the legal community. The site includes a suggested list of readings, including the following by UCLA Law faculty:
o Devon Carbado, Blue-on-Black Violence o Kimberlé Crenshaw, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex o Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property
• Suggested reading from UCLA Law’s Black Law Students Association
o The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander o How To Be Anti-Racist and Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi o So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo o White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Suggested reading from UCLA Law Review
o Arturo Peña Miranda, Redress for Police Violence Under the Equal Protection Clause o Alice Ristroph, The Constitution of Police Violence o Sandy Hudson, Defunding the Police Will Save Black and Indigenous Lives in Canada o V. Noah Gimbel & Craig Muhammad, Are Police Obsolete? Breaking Cycles of Violence Through Abolition Democracy
• Suggested resources in non-English languages
o Letters for Black Lives, explanations and background to aid non- or limited-English speakers, translated into 26+ languages (not just Asian) o Black Lives Matters Translated, BLM and anti-Blackness materials in Asian and Pacific Islander language o Recursos antirracistas en español, anti-racist resources in Spanish
Watch
• Under the Blacklight, a series hosted by the African American Policy Forum, co-founded and led by UCLA faculty member Kimberlé Crenshaw. Past episodes are available to listen at the Intersectionality Matters! podcast or watch here on YouTube. • National Conference of Black Lawyers webinar, Resisting Police Violence: The Ongoing Racial Pandemic. Features UCLA Law Professor Cheryl Harris and UCLA Law alum Nana Gyamfi. • Eighth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race and Resistance: Against Police Violence. • Seventh Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, Whiteness as Property: A 20-Year Appraisal