Weekend Round Up

This week was a decade.

At the store:

We muted all of our social media to try to make room for the important voices that need to be heard instead. Please feel free to take another look at our blog post on Black Lives Matter from Monday, and learn more about places we donated to throughout the week:

• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Black Lives Matter
• Campaign Zero
• Color Of Change
• BlackPDX.com
• Don't Shoot PDX
• PDX Protest Bail Fund
• ACLU of Oregon
• Fair Fight
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Coalition of Communities of Color
• Portland African American Leadership Forum
• Urban League of Portland
• Black Aids Institute
• Freedom Fund
• House of GG
• Black Futures Lab
• Black Youth Project 100
• NAACP

Around the web:

• Listen-
• Code Switch from NPR
• "Say It Out Loud Playlist" from The Moth
• 1619 Podcast from the New York Times
• Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
• The Groundlings Podcast
• Watch-
• Ava DuVerrney's documentary 13th Amendment
• Hair Love- the Oscar-winning animated short
• 10 Films to Watch in Support of Black Liberation
• 7 Films About Racial Injustice
• System Racism Explained from act.tv
• Read-
• Good Black News.
• Black Feminist Perspectives on Covid-19 has an extensive reading list generated from their Zoom event.
• Powell's Books has a curated list for Black History Month.
• Lit Hub has a set of books on police violence that you can access for free right now.
• Cup of Joe has a good post on raising race-conscious kids...
• Here's an Anti-Racist Resource Guide...

• Do-
• Donate if you can. There are many, many, many groups doing valuable work in addition to few we listed above.  Also consider a mutual aid fund in your area and, if you are a fan of travel, Rick Steves will match your gift to Sojourners to help make sure every adult has the right to vote this November...
• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
• Seek out and follow people of color on your social media feeds to break the echo chamber of what you are getting from their algorithms. Here are 5 Instagram accounts to follow to get the ball rolling...
• Register and VOTE.

Local:

• Shop black-owned businesses.
• Willamette Week has a list of black-owned restaurants doing take out during the pandemic.
• Racist Sandwich has a similar restaurant list but includes all people of color.

We welcome you to read our Diversity and Inclusivity Statement and contact us.