• The Psychosis of Whiteness

"The Psychosis of Whiteness is a documentary film that sheds light on society's perceptions of race and racism by exploring cinematic representations of the slave trade... Rather than blaming the powerful institutions that are responsible for slavery, these films rewrite history by praising those same institutions for abolishing the slave trade."

• A Conversation About Black Trauma

• ‘I had to submit to being exoticised by white women. If I didn’t, I was punished’ | Courttia Newland

• The Perils of Travelling as a Young Black Woman | Ashley Butterfield

• Shades of Black (includes descriptions of racial slurs & stereotypes)

• Colorism and Global Standards of Beauty | Chika Okoro

• 'Being a Black child with Asperger's in a predominantly White school was difficult'

• Elephants (A Story of Black Motherhood) | Remi Sade

• Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice

• Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence? | Brittney Cooper
• Invisible No More | Andrea Ritchie
• Black Women and the Fight for Reproductive Justice
• "A Black Woman's Body Was Never Hers Alone..." (contains accounts of rape and sexual assault)

"Another thing also remains true: Black girls and women have always resisted and continue to do so today"

• Miss Major on why the Fight to end State Violence must be Inclusive of the Black Trans Community
• Black Queer People Demand Inclusion In Nashville’s Conversations About Reform
• Black Trans Women Are Solving The Epidemic Of Violence, Support Us

Read this

• Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi

• Go to the Taking Up Space website for more

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith

How does Africa interact with the rest of the world?

• Map: African History and the World

• Africa’s Influence on the Civil Rights Movement | Dwayne Wong (Omowale)

• An African Woman’s Standpoint in Black Feminist Thought | B. Belaineh

• The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
• Patrice Lumumba, Independence Day Speech 30 June 1960

• Neocolonialism: How Western Corporations Are Exploiting Africa

The USA - Civil Rights, not Human Rights

• The Hidden History of the Quest for Civil Rights
• The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it possible
• A More Beautiful and Terrible History

"By expanding our understanding of who the courageous were, it suggests who will lead us today: welfare moms, high school students, and church ladies, rural and urban, men and women, teenagers to octogenarians. This more beautiful and terrible history asks us to see our past differently and our future anew — a history for a better world."

Anansi stories - tales from the Caribbean

• Sister Farika's Maroon Story
• The Haitian Revolution
• Indigenous history of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• The 7 Most Common Caribbean Myths and Stereotypes

The UK - 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack'

• Why has Britain's civil rights movement been forgotten?
• The Mangrove Nine Trial: When Black Power took on the British Establishment
• 1981 Brixton Riots - Documentary
• A Timeline of Stephen Lawrence's Life and Death
• The Global Politics of British Black Power

Read this:

• Above the Colonial Subconscious, Africa Moves by Michel Ngue-Awane
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• West Indian Folk-Tales by Philip Sherlock
• No Win Race: A Memoir of Belonging, Britishness and Sport by Derek A. Bardowell

• The Free Black Uni has a library of literature from Africa, the Caribbean and the diasporas

Artistry

• Hair Love - short film
• Newham Talks with Kano
• There is rice at home
• How We Fight For Our Lives | Saeed Jones
• Baba Ali on the Music Meetup
• Artist In Focus: Kahlil Joseph
• Create On My Own Terms - An Interview with Javanie Stephens
• The Black Experience: Mirror on Ourselves

• Check out Shades of Noir's Creative Database

Read this:

• Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.

Liberation

• How to Stay Radical within an Institution
• Melz Owusu and the Free Black University
• Simply Deez and the Black Book Case
• Solutions to Youth Violence from People Who Have Lived It
• Welcome to the 4Front

"Our ethos is 'think global, act local'"

• Black Mama’s Bail Out tackles criminal justice reform in Tennessee
• Black Mama's Bail Out Action + Reflection
• Why We Need Data For Black Lives
• How One Activist Created the Immigrant Community He Needed
• The Black Feminist Archival Projects You Need to Know About

Read this:

• Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
• As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson & Zoé Samudzi
• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
• Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman & Nick Montgomery

Say It Louder: Spoken Word, Activism and Liberation

A showcase of Black performers and activists who are tackling the issues - from the personal to the global - in their own way.

We ask that all donations for this month's event are sent directly to Sistah Space - read about their fundraiser, show some love and support their work.

• Go to the Fundraiser
• Sistah Space Website

Our Next Event: Oct 10th 2020

Say It Louder USA: Time To Change

• Event Page

Past Events

Our event from 12th September 2020

Videos from our past events will be uploaded to our YouTube channel, featuring:~C. A. Williams
~Sommer Jade
~Rohan Samuel
~Mark 'Mr T' Williams
~Mr Milise
~Veronica E. Poet
~Tré Ventour
~Zed Regal
~Norva MacIntosh
and more

• Go to Channel

The Say It Louder Community

• Instagram

• YouTube

• RealTalk with Simply Deez

• Facebook Page (public)

• Facebook Group (private)

• The Say It Louder Handbook

UK

• List of Racial Justice & Community Orgs
• Black Cultural Archives
• Organisation of Black Unity
• The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network