Train Your Mind
A list of resources with knowledge to equip your mind in combatting the effects of racism, white supremacy, and anti-blackness.
1. Watch “Sandy Holman: A Discussion about The Cost of Darkness” (interview)
The Culture C.O.-O.P. has created the documentary, The Cost of Darkness, to encourage a variety of entities to envision strategies for interventions and impact from a holistic and systemic perspective. We have partnered with college students, active researchers, educators, activists, and community members across the United States who have been impacted by generational supremacy ideology, race-based historical policies, and oppression.
“In the last half-century, America has become the nation with the highest rate of incarceration in the world, authorized the execution of hundreds of condemned prisoners and continued to struggle to recover from a long history of racial injustice. For more than three decades, Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to
eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. An intimate portrait of this remarkable man, True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality follows his struggle to create greater fairness in the system and shows how racial injustice emerged, evolved and continues to threaten the country, challenging viewers to confront it.”
3. Review “Africa Before Slavery - Jim Crow Museum” (timeline)
4. Explore “The Origins of Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum” (entire website)
5. Read “A History of White Race Riots in America”
6. Watch “From Darwin to Hitler”
“In his book, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (2004), Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics (a movement wanting to control human reproduction to improve the human species), but also on euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles.”
7. Listen to “White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo” (audiobook) a little each week
8. Listen to “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (audiobook)
9. Watch Cheikh Anta Diop: The African Origin
“In this episode Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy guides us into not only ancient Africa but also specifically North Africa and brings up the history of a commonly used and misused term that we constantly see today and that is the term "Sub-Saharan." She not only gives us a history of the term but how it is used to often whitewash or erase black Africans and their presence in North Africa and its history.”
“World leaders are preparing to gather in London for the queen’s funeral on Monday. While glowing tributes continue to pour in, her death has also sparked painful memories and anger among several former British colonies and prompted a wider conversation about the role the British monarchy has had in their oppression. Special correspondent Isabel Nakirya reports from Kenya.”
“The Movement with Kmt and Kofi focuses on critical issues in the Black world. In this episode, Anthony T. Browder discusses critical ideas regarding African/Black history and culture, correcting the historical record and understanding OURstory.”
20. Explore The Portland Baseline Essays
“Human Zoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in the early decades of the twentieth century.”