Association of African American Museums (AAAM) Oral History Collection explores the work of leaders in the field of Black Museums. How we tell our history matters, and the strategy for how we reshape narratives belongs to leaders we must know, trust, and support to impact historical bias.

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With Pride: Uplifting LGBTQ History is a special section of BlackPast.org, presenting the history of people of African descent who are also Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ). The collection highlights contributions made to both African American history and American history culture.

Abolition 

Abolitionists envision a world without police or prisons, were alternative approaches to address harm manifest as open hearted compliance and cooperation between citizens. Beyond Punishment: The Movement for Transformative Justice is a powerful podcast by Rustbelt Abolition Radio, hosting Mia Mingus of Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Claudia Garcia-Rojas of The Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, and Maya Schenwar of Truthout.

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Black Lives Matter

What is the future for the Black Lives Matter movement? This conversation with Patrisse Cullors in 2021 covers the history of BLM as a global organization and movement. Cullors explains the grass roots activism and training that prepared the trio to be capable activists. Cullors confirms that BLM is a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement that has persisted to liberate perceptions of blackness, queerness, and civic equity.

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Black Lives Matter: No More Happy Talk is a powerful conversation hosted on August 19, 2020, paneled by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, retired judge of the Superior Court of California and former Independent Police Auditor, Robert Luckett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Director of the Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African American Experience at Jackson State University, and

Gender Justice

Ending the War on Black Trans People is a conversation hosted by The Movement for Black Lives, moderated by M Adams of Freedom, Inc., joined by Ash Stephens of Transgender Law Center, Toni-Michelle Williams of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co), Janetta Johnson of TGI Justice Project, Ola Osaze of Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project, and Sean Saifa of Wall of Intersex Justice Project. The panel discussion is a resource for activist mindset and a notable dialogue source for community investments.

Black trans women and gender nonconforming people in particular experience some of the highest levels of killings, violence, poverty, policing, criminalization, and incarceration of any group in the U.S. We uplift this cry for civil protection by The Movement for Black Lives and we stand in solidarity with the resolve to expand access to employment, healthcare, housing, and education for Black trans, intersex, queer, and gender nonconforming (LGBTQ+) people.

Healing Justice

Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives by Prentis Hemphill, Director of Healing Justice at Black Lives Matter, is a brief explanation that encourages real investments in transforming ourselves, our ways of relating to others, and how these personal investments shape our impact in this civil rights movement. “Healing justice is active intervention in which we transform the lived experience of Blackness in our world.” Hemphill uplifts that Healing Justice as envisioned by Cara Page and Kindred Southern creates a path for us to holistically respond to generational trauma and violence by paying attention first to our own bodies, hearts and minds.

Disability Justice

Let's Talk: Ableism provides a brief rationale for accountability partnerships by Meshea L. Poore, Esq., a long-time champion of underrepresented people, serves as vice president and chief diversity officer for the West Virginia University Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Keri Gray, founder and CEO of the Keri Gray Group, is a leader in mentorship for young professionals, businesses, and organizations on issues centering disability, race, gender, and intersectionality. In the PSA: Intersectionality & Disability, Keri illustrates how the framework of intersectionality is essential to true inclusion

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Somatic Abolitionism

Somatic Abolitionism is a practice that requires discernment, self and communal discipline, and racial literacy centered in humility. This practice is best nurtured in community to condition our bodies and minds for difficult conversations about race. Resmaa Menakem explains Cultural Somatics in a Free eCourse and in his book My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

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Many in Somatic Abolitionism believe that self-awareness triggers elevated life satisfaction. One such activist, Adrienne Marie Brown, explains "how" in her book Pleasure activism: The politics of feeling good. It is vital to activism that we understand healing and happiness, that we abolish myths that keep us separated from each other. Brown challenges us to rethink how we care for self as we care for others and she fortifies her perspectives by uplifting insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

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Transformative Justice

Transformative justice is the methods people use to uproot injustice patterns in communities according to Adrienne Maree Brown, author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Brown is also an editor for OCTAVIA’S Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, a collection of short stories written by organizers, activists, and changemakers. In an interview: The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice, Brown and colleges provide a useful explanation of Transformative Justice.

Chris Bridges, an attorney and implicit bias expert through Equal Justice Society, appeared as an expert guest for CNN's Unconscious Bias: Facing the Realities of Racism series. Bridges speaks to the impact of implicit biases in workplaces, schools and communities. In a different episode of the same CNN series, Dr. David Pilgrim, curator of Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice, explains the impact of advertising on Black perception across American history.

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Have you heard the term “implicit bias” but not sure what it means?  University of California Los Angeles, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is invested in raising awareness and they invite the community at large to lean in. Implicit Bias Video Series and self-tests are intended for public use and can easily resource community conversations.