Black Owned Restaurants in Chicago This is not an exhaustive list. List taken from @get..chicago Instagram. South Side Brown Sugar Bakery Lem’s Evanston BBQ The Loop Hecky’s BBQ Doughboy’s Chicago Eleven I Eleven Good to Go Deli King Taste 222 Badou Senegalese Haire’s Gulf Shrimp Coco’s Lobster Caribbean American Bakery The Woodlawn Grail Café Da Jerk Pit Original Soul Vegetarian 14 Parish Restaurant and Rhum Jennifer’s Edibles Flaming Restaurant Bar Kingston Grill Mabes Deli Powerhouse Restaurant Taste of Jamaica 5 Loaves Eater Teapot Brew Bakery YaMon Jerk Grill The Wrap Bar Sweet Maple Café YoFresh Café Lexington Betty Smokehouse Mr. Brown’s Lounge J Kizin Creole Restaurant Home of The Hoagie Cuisine Jamaica Jerk Old Fashioned Donuts FruVe xPress Juicery I’m Soul Hungry Any Sunflower Café Life’s Sweet Flippin Flavors Hyde Park Evanston Chicken Shack Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat Redz North Side Soul Shack Safari Lounge Bettie Lou’s Litehouse Whole Grill Denden Eritrean Restaurant Ras Dashen Mikkey’s Retro Grill & Berries B’Gabs Vegan West Town/ Wicker Park Ms. T’s Chicken Sir and Madame Soulé Irie Jerk Bar and Grill Sip and Savor Mr. Brown’s Luella’s Southern Kitchen Exquisite Ina Mae Tavern Lizzy J Café Jerk 48 Frontier Demera Norman’s Bistro Crazy Bird Chicken Tesfa Virtue Restaurant The Delta Urban Grill Flippin Flavors Caribella De-Jred Fine Lottie’s Pub Vee Vee’s African Restaurant Bronzeville Turkey Chop Ethiopian Diamond Uncle Remus Caribella The long room Cleo’s southern Cuisine Harold’s Chicken Shack Nigerian Kitchen Ain’t She Sweet Café Humboldt Park Lizzy J’s Dock’s Fish Turkey Chop Mogadishu Pearl’s Place Macarthur’s Restaurant Iyanze Bar and Café Friistyle The Licking Grace’s African Restaurant Some Like It Black Flavors Southern Kitchen Kyoto Black Coffee Truth Italian Restaurant Justice of the Pies Frances’ Brunchery Shawn Michelle’s Bro-in-Laws Bar-B-Que

Other Black Owned Businesses in Chicago For a extensive search engine of all black owned businesses in Chicago you can visit this website and search for any service you might need: https://blackownedchicago.com/ The main categories include Clothing, Coffee, Entertainment, Hair & Beauty, Professional Services, Restaurants, Health & Spa.

You can also download the app called Official Black Wall Street or OBWS which will show you all Black owned businesses near you and is a large search engine for Black owned Businesses.

Organizations to support and follow for advocacy Based on a list by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein. This is not an exhaustive list.

NAACP Color of Change Black Lives Matter The American Civil Liberties Union Therapy For Black Grils Fair Fight Know Your Rights Camp Anitracist Research & Policy Center Audre Lorde Project Black Women’s Blueprint Colorlines The Conscious Kids Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Families Belong Together The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights Muslim Girl MPowerChange National Domestic Woerkers Alliances RAICES Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) United We Dream

Activities Here is an online resource filled with art and music activities to help process and respond to protests taking place. https://docs.google.com/document/d/192tzSqJuI0A95IaDHiSn1hYQNt0AFFQnnIUKKOcML0/edit

Furthering education and understanding resources discussing racism past and present, racial equity and justice, and race in America. This is not an exhaustive list Based on a list by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein

Films and Shows Podcasts 13th -Ava Duvernay Therapy For Black Girls American Son – Kenny Leon 1619 By the New York Times Dear White People – Justin Simien About Race See You Yesterday – Stefon Bristol Code Switch by NPR When They See Us – Ava Duvernay If The Diversity Gap Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins Intersectionality Matters Hosted by Kimberlé The Hate you give – Geroge Tillman Jr. Crenshaw Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Momentum: A race Forward Podcast Pod Clemency-Chinonye Chukwu For the Cause from the leadership Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler conference on civil and human rights I Am Not Your Negro -James Baldwin Documentary Just Mercy -Destin Daniel Cretton Selma – Ava Duvernay The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Books

The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America - Carole Boston Weatherford Something Happened in Our Town - Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard Black Feminist Thought – Patricia Hill Collins Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower -Dr. Brittney Cooper Heavy: An American Memoir -Kiese Laymon How to be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson Redefining Realness – Janet Mock The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison The Fire Next Time – James Badwin The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander The Next American Revolution : Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century – Grace Lee Boggs The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color – Cherrie Moraga Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde So You Want to talk about Race – Ijeoma Oluo White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism – Robin Diangelo, PHD