TAKE ACTION.

We have used this blog to provide some levity, cheer and contact to our friends and colleagues during our Work From Home situation. The events of the past few days have encouraged all of us on team MAA to reflect, learn and take action. We are still trying to make sense of it all, but we found these words from President Obama on How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change to be helpful and grounding:

So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots to make sure that we elect candidates who will act on reform. - President Barack Obama

You may have seen many of these websites flash on your social media, but we thought it would be helpful to compile links for you here.

Be well, be safe, and please consider taking a stand.

Resources for Conversations About Race with Children:

Bail Funds by State/City.

Useful, comprehensive list of ways to help right now.

Resources from the Obama Foundation.

Media to Consume:

  • Music. I Just Wanna Live.

  • Books

    • The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

    • So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

    • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nahisi Coates

    • How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

  • TV

    • When They See Us (Netflix)

    • Dear White People (Netflix)

  • Movies

    • 13th (Netflix)

    • BlackKkKlansman (HBO, Hulu)

    • If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu)

    • Detroit (Hulu)

  • Podcasts

    • Pod Save the People

    • Code Switch

    • 1619

Black-owned restaurants open for takeout in DC:

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