Resources
Part of the mission of You Are Important Project is to be a platform to connect you to resources of all kinds.
This is an ever evolving page.
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Mental Health
Brooklyn, New York: Well Williamsburg offers a free 50 minute session to BIPOC NYS residents
New York City: COVID-19 mental health digital resources (free)
Telehealth therapy: accepts over 50 insurances, website
COVID-19
Jon Hopkins -one of the leaders in public health. Access to a live tracker
Elsevier - open access to research published around the world about COVID-19
Medical Care
Easy scheduling, speciality search, and physician reviews: Zocdoc
Free clinics for the uninsured: The Institute
NYC Free clinic search: https://www.freeclinics.com/cit/ny-new_york
Black Lives Matter: Books, Articles, and Blogs
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Biewen, John. Seeing White. Podcast bibliography. Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2015. http://podcast.cdsporch.org/seeing-white/seeing-white-bibliography.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. First published 2003.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Open Road Media, 2012.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
DiAngelo, R. J. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. 2018
“The Case for Reparations.” Atlantic, June 2014. Dyson, Michael Eric. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to a White America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017.
Feagin, Joe R. The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo, ed. What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1999.
Irving, Debby. Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Boston: Elephant Room Press, 2014.
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. New York: New Press, 20018.
Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press, 2017.
Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Moore, Eddie, Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick-Parks. The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2017.
Raising Race Conscious Children. Home page. Website
Sensoy, Özlem, and Robin DiAngelo. Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education, 2nd ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 2017.
Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, Twentieth anniv. rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
Van Ausdale, Debra, and Joe R. Feagin. The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint, 2010.
Employment
Night life workers: NYC gov
Substance Use Support
Bicycle Health: medication assisted opioid dependency treatment for all
Black Lives Matter: Films
Chisholm ′72: Unbought and Unbossed. Shola Lynch, dir. and prod. REAL-side, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/pov/chisholm
A Class Divided. William Peters, dir. and prod. Yale University Films for Frontline, PBS. WGBH Education Foundation, 1985. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided
The Color of Fear. Stirfry Seminars, 1994. http://www.stirfryseminars.com/store/products/cof_bundle.php
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. World Trust, 2013. https://world-trust.org
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965. Season 1. DVD. Produced by Blackside for PBS, 2009. https://shop.pbs.org/eyes-on-the-prize-america-s-civil-rights-years-1954-1965-season-1-dvd/product/EYES600
In Whose Honor? Jay Rosenstein, dir. On POV (PBS), premiered July 15, 1997. http://www.pbs.org/pov/inwhosehonor
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. World Trust, 2007. https://world-trust.org
Legal Resources
Free legal help: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_services/flh-home/flh-free-legal-help/
Volunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates: https://www.probono.net
Census
Voting
NYS: info
Health Equity
Substance Harm Reduction
DanceSafe - harm reduction in the electronic music space
NextDistro - free naloxone training & kits, other harm reduction resources
NYC Health - free naloxone in NYC, resources
Zendo Project - psychedlic peer support