This is an incredible list from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation via their email series Sunday Short Reads, including suggestions for how we can do better and make our society more just, equitable, empathetic, and inclusive. There’s so much information being shared, I appreciate this list of key articles, organizations, and links. Follow the links below to read more and take action if you are able.

“The Creative Nonfiction Foundation pursues educational and publishing initiatives in the genre of literary nonfiction. Its objectives are to provide a venue, through the magazine Creative Nonfiction, as well as through the In Fact Books imprint, for high quality nonfiction prose (memoir, literary journalism, personal essay); to serve as the singular strongest voice of the genre, defining the ethics and parameters of the field; and to broaden the genre’s impact in the literary arena by providing an array of educational services and publishing activities.”

LEARN

• A timeline of events that led us here (via The Root)
• The 1619 Project (via New York Times Magazine)
• Read up on specific issues (via blacklivesmatter.carrd.co)
• Anti-racism resources (Google Doc)
• Anti-racist books for kids and their caretakers (via White Whale Bookstore)
• A nonfiction anti-racist reading list (via Publishers Weekly)
• Ibram X. Kendi’s anti-racist reading list (via New York Times)
• Black Pittsburgh writers (via Pittsburgh City Paper)
• Films by black filmmakers (via Criterion Collection)
• Articles, books, podcasts, teacher resources & more (Google Doc)

ACT

• Protesting? Know your rights (via ACLU)
• Planning to protest? Stay safe. (via Vice)
• Filming police? Stay safe. (via WITNESS.org)
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (via Medium)
• Commit to Justice in June (Google Doc)
• 20 actions white people and non-black POCs can take to show up for black people right now (via Medium)
• Contact your representatives (via My Reps)
• *** Vote ***

SUPPORT

• Black-owned bookstores (via Publishers Weekly)
• Another list of black-owned bookstores (via Lit Hub)
• Black Lives Matter (Donations)
• Movement for Black Lives (Donations)
• Bail Funds (Donations)
• Other suggestions (Donations)
• Even more suggestions (via The Cut)

FOLLOW 

• Black Lives Matter  |  @Blklivesmatter
• ACLU  |  @ACLU
• NAACP  |  @NAACP
• Legal Defense Fund  |  @NAACP_LDF
• Color of Change  |  @ColorOfChange
• Equal Justice Initiative  |  @eji_org

The SUNDAY SHORT READS is a weekly email series that features short works from the archives of Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Sweet Lit, River Teeth, and Brain, Child, as well as occasional original works. You can read the past issues here.