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.

Want to help connect others to the services they need? Share your resources with us!

Mental Health

Black Voices in Mental Health

  • Mental Health for Black Women: instagram

  • Therapist directory for black men: website

  • Therapist directory and podcast for black women and girls: website

  • Melanin and mental health: podcast and therapy directory, website

COVID-19

Medical Care

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

Substance Use Support

  • Bicycle Health: medication assisted opioid dependency treatment for all

Black Lives Matter: Films

Legal Resources

Census

Voting

Health Equity

Substance Harm Reduction

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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatna Gandhi