COVID/Uprisings

Black Midwest Initiative's statement on the death of George Floyd.

On Rebellion & COVID-19

GENERAL

Piper Anderson et al., "26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets"
Maneesh Arora, “How the coronavirus pandemic helped the Floyd protests become the biggest in U.S. history.”
Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox, "Many Tulsa Massacres: How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence"
Jelani Cobb, "The Death of George Floyd, in Context"
Natalie Escobar, "One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting'"
Robert Greene II, "We Are Living in a Red Spring"
Connor Goodwin, "The Long Shadow of Racism -and Protest- In the Midwest"
Ashley Howard, "A Watched Pot Never Boils"
Kellie Carter Jackson, "The Double Standard of the American Riot"
Reggie Jackson, "Stop Accusing the Black Lives Matter Movement of Ignoring So-Called ‘Black-on-Black’ Crime"
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
German Lopez, "Why You Should Stop Saying ‘All Lives Matter,’ Explained in 9 Different Ways"
Lorgia García-Peña, "Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together"
Allissa V. Richardson, "Why cellphone videos of black people’s deaths should be considered sacred, like lynching photographs"
Corinne Shutack, "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice"
Carol A. Stabile, “During Floyd Protests, media industry reckons with long history of collaboration with law enforcement.”
Katy Steinmetz, "'A War of Words': Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as 'Riots' Is So Loaded"
Thomas J. Sugrue, "2020 Is Not 1968: To Understand Today's Protests You Must Look Further Back"
Mahader Tamene, Elleni M. Hailu, Rachel L. Berkowitz, and Xing Gao, "COVID-19, Police Violence, and the Historical Thread that Binds Them: Structural Racism as a Public Health Issue"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "How Do We Change America?"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People"
Dr. Nicole Truesdell (Dr. Tea), "Prayer As Recovery"
Olivia Waxman, "10 Experts on How the George Floyd Protests Fit Into American History"
Kidada E. Williams, “Centuries of Violence”
Scholars for Social Justice, "The Fire This Time"
Stephen Wilson, Toussaint Lossier, Casey Coonan et. al. “The Complexities of the ‘Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition”
Celeste Winston, "The Everyday Black Life of Abolition", Black Perspectives

Other Resources

#8toAbolition
Anti-Racist Design Resources
Barbershop Books
Belt Magazine, Mutual Aid in the Rust Belt
How to Survive the End of the World
Dark Matter University
Money Power Land Solidarity Podcast
Video: How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi at the Aspen Ideas Festival)
COVID-19 Homeschooling
Data 4 Black Lives (COVID Disparities Tracker-Black Cases and Deaths by State)
Groundbreakers Network, COVID-19-Community Resource Map
Training Series: Trauma Response & Crisis Care (TRACC) Introduction to Movement Trauma for Healers
Webinar: Trauma Response & Crisis Care (TRACC) COVID-19 Community Care

ILLINOIS

Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future? (Ep. 49)
Keisha Blain, "Echoes of the 1917 East St. Louis “Race Riot” in Today’s Uprisings"
Maya Zazhil Fernandez, "Unpacking the Chicago race war during the George Floyd protests"
Mikki Kendall, “How to Love a City That Doesn’t Love You Back”
Mikki Kendall, "Why the Unrest in Chicago Has Been Decades in the Making"
Lauren Leazenby and Milan Polk, “What you need to know about Black Lives Matter in 10 questions”
Elvia Malagón, “In Evanston, Jacob Blake’s grandfather was at the forefront of civil rights battles, envisioning a ‘blended community”
Jack Wang, "Why current protests are about more than George Floyd's death"

IOWA

Isabella Murray, "How The George Floyd Protests Are Playing Out In Waterloo"

KENOSHA

Anna Purna Kambhampaty, "Tensions Over Race and Policing in Kenosha , Wis., Began Long Before Shooting of Jacob Blake"
Kristen Leer, “Imagine Being a Child: How Trauma Impacts the Youngest Members of Kenosha’s Black Community”
Lee Matz, “Raysean White Reflects On Recording the Latest Example of Police Brutality Against a Black Man”

MICHIGAN

Cassandra Spratling, "Detroit's Winning Spirit Helps It Fight Back Against COVID-19"
Patti Waldmeir, "Four generations of black Detroiters on the legacy of George Floyd"
COVID-19 compounds Flint woes after contaminated water crisis
Metro Detroit COVID-19 Support

MILWAUKEE

Corrinne Hess, "COVID-19 Deaths Concentrated in Milwaukee’s African American Community"
Isiah Holmes, “Evictions are up during the pandemic and residents have had enough.”
Isiah Holmes, "Milwaukee protestors and residents feel they’re under surveillance"
Reggie Jackson, “The Hypocrisy of American Rights: What Constitutional Entitlement Means In a National Created Unequal”
Reggie Jackson, “Now That You Are Woke: Will White Allies Actually Be Willing to Get Out of Bed?”
Jodi Melamed and Lisa Cacho, "Targeted By Police: How Law Enforcement Tries to Criminalize Milwaukee’s Black Activists"
Teran Powell, "Milwaukee’s COVID-19 Spread Highlights the Disparities Between White and Black"
Lilly Workneh and Michael McLaughlin, "'Milwaukee Uprisings' Reflect Wisconsin’s Terrible Treatment Of Black Lives"
Coalition of BIPOC Artists in Milwaukee Writes Letter to Milwaukee Theater Community

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL

Julian Agyeman, “Urban Planning as a Tool of White Supremacy - The Other Lesson from Minneapolis”
Aren Aizura, "A Mask and a Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots"
Keisha Blain, "Violence in Minneapolis is Rooted in the History of Racist Policing in America"
Alleen Brown, "We Don’t Have Time to Wait"
Justin Ellis, "Minneapolis Had This Coming"
Safy-Hallan Farah, "George Floyd Was Killed in My Neighborhood"
Elizabeth Hinton, "The Minneapolis Uprising in Context"
Liaisons, "Warning"
Luke Mogelson, The Heart of the Uprising in Minneapolis
Liz Navratil, "Minneapolis to name stretch of Chicago Avenue for George Floyd"
August H. Nimtz, "It's a big deal that the outrage expressed over George Floyd’s death was massive and multiracial"
Katrina Phillips, "'Where Two Waters Come Together': The Confluence of Black and Indigenous History at Bdote"
Vanessa Taylor, "What Happened--and is Happening--in Minneapolis"
Vanessa Taylor, "'Why Minneapolis?': How Deep Surveillance of Black Muslims Paved the Way for George Floyd’s Murder"
Chioma Uwagwu, Tiaryn Daniels, and David Todd Lawrence, "Art and Uprising: The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Database"
Olivia Waxman, "George Floyd's Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis"
Terrion L. Williamson, "Remembering David Cornelius Smith"
Soo Youn, "The University of Minnesota Has Reduced Ties With Minneapolis Police. Meet the Student Behind the Movement

Other Resources

MiSSOURI

Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala Rogers, "COVID-19 and the Color Line"

OHIO

Rachael Beardsley, "Behind Cleveland’s Black Lives Matter Street Mural"

Open Access Scholarly Resources on Racial Justice, Anti-Racism, and Anti-Blackness

Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Reed, Antiracism Inc .: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, The F-Word, For Fred and Fannie Lou
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, three reminders from the birth and blood chorus
Caitlin Gunn, Black Feminist Futurity: From Survival Rhetoric to Radical Speculation
Dorothy E. Roberts, Killing the Black Body: A Twenty-Year Retrospective
Jared Sexton, Afropessimism: The Unclear Word
Black Holes: Afropessimism, blackness, and the discourses of Modernity
Duke University Press Police Violence Syllabus (all journal articles free until September 30th, 2020)
State Killing: Queer and Women of Color Manifestas against U.S. Violence and Oppression