BLACK LIVES MATTER

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Anahata's strongly stands with the black lives matter movement.

As a platform for wellness and well being, there is not doubt that the message, meaning and movement of black lives matter is ensuring that the black community feels loved, well, cared for & safe.

Something everyone should feel.

 

We will not have a single facilitator teach a class on wellness if they do not believe in the BLM movement. It is of our opinion that if you can not get on board and see how this movement is to bring peace and wellness to those who need it, that they still have some work to do and are not welcome to use our platform.

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We have attached below a list of resources for you for learning and educating yourself so that we can all do our part in making our community and country a safe place for the black community, as well as speak out again injustice and racism.

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Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

               How this affects your colleagues:

• “Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not” by Danielle Cadet | Refinery29

• “Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot” by Shenequa Golding | Medium

• “Toward a Racially Just Workplace” by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo | Harvard Business Review

 Videos to watch:

• “Color blind or color brave?” | TED Talk by former ELC board member Mellody Hobson

• Daily Show Discussion on Recent Protests – Trevor Noah

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

 

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• SceneOnRadio’s “Seeing White” season | The Podcast by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies

 

Books to read:

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

 

Resources for discussions with children:

• Books:

  • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

  • A Kids Book About – a children’s book company that has a specialized book per topic on racism, belonging, empathy, and more.

• Podcasts:

  • Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

  • Fare of the Free Child podcast

• Articles:

  • PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

  • Becoming a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Matter | Op-Ed by Clint Smith, The Atlantic

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

• Showing Up for Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

• @TheConsciousKid on Instagram

 

 Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• Just Mercy

• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• The Wire - HBO

• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

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