STAND UP BOSTON

This site was created to aggregate resources for white and NB-PoC allies to support our fellow Black community members of Boston.We are committed to stand up for and stand beside our Black siblings today, tomorrow, and every day.

This site is geared toward Boston residents, but will also include more generalized information and resources. It is evergreen and ever growing.Last update: October 25, 2021

LEGAL RESOURCES

BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES

RESTAURANTS

ALLSTON/BRIGHTON & BROOKLINE

CAMBRIDGE

DORCHESTER

DOWNTOWN & SOUTH END

EAST BOSTON

HYDE PARK

JP & ROSLINDALE

MATTAPAN

ROXBURY

SOMERVILLE

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

FIND THERAPY

ORGANIZATIONS

OTHER RESOURCES

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

TO READ

BOOKS

  • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis [free PDF, free audiobook by lil guillotine]

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Captive Genders by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith [free PDF]

  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

  • The End of Policing [$3 ebook] by Alex S. Vitale

  • Hearing the Other Side by Diana Mutz

  • How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

  • The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

  • Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams [free audiobook by lil guillotine]

  • Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange

  • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 by Manning Marable

  • Racism in America - a selection of writings by antiracism scholars [free PDF]

  • Racism: A Short History by George Fredrickson

  • Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild

  • When Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring

  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

  • Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis [free audiobook by lil guillotine]

ARTICLES/ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

TO WATCH

(Credit to @filmshawty on Twitter)

  • 13th (2016) dir. Ava Duvernay

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) dir. Stanley Nelson Jr.

  • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) dir. David France

  • Disclosure (2020) dir. Sam Feder

  • Do Not Resist (2016) dir. Craig Atkinson

  • Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory (2015) dir. Orlando de Guzman

  • I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016) dir. Raoul Peck

  • Let the Fire Burn (2013) dir. Jason Osder

  • They've Gotta Have Us (2018) dir. Simon Frederick

  • What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) dir. Liz Garbus

  • When They See Us (2019) dir. Ava Duvernay

YOUTUBE CHANNELS

VIDEOS

TO LISTEN

ONLINE TOOLS

FACT CHECKERS

FOR CHILDREN

BOOKS

  • 60 Books for Children to Learn About Diversity - via Kidadl

  • Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

  • Let It Shine by Andrea Davis Pinkney

  • Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford

  • Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport

  • Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

  • My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

  • Race Cars by Jenny Devenny

  • Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier

  • Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

  • Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

  • Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

  • Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford