Black Lives Matter

We celebrate diversity and support our friends, clients, and neighbors of color. It is our honor to provide and hold safe space as we all stand together to demand justice and equity for black lives.

​In times of unrest and moving forward, we encourage ourselves and those around us to continue to take actionable steps to help support our community and fight ongoing racial injustice.

Below, you'll find local (Tallahassee, FL), national, and global resources; click to show/hide each section. We'll continue updating this list; let us know in the comments if there's a business we should add. Sharing is encouraged.

​Piercers of Color has organized an All Inclusive National Resource List & Businesses to Support, so check that out for further ongoing information.

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Local Resources & Black-owned Businesses

Below are a few local favorites, but there are so many more in Tallahassee. Branch out to find additional locally black owned businesses; we encourage everyone to check out these directories:

• Support Black Owned - Business Listings in Florida
• Black Owned Business Network - Business Listings for Tallahassee
• Tallahassee Black Owned Business Facebook group
• Black Owned Restaurants in Tallahassee list from Cassie Nicolace
• Restaurants in Tallahassee - google map
• EatOkra - Food directory app available for Apple and Android devices

Restaurants, bakeries, and eateries

• Bagel Market & Bistro - Breakfast/Cafe
• Barb's Brittle & Gourmet Ice Cream - Sweet treats
• Caribbean Crossroads - Foodtruck
• Earley’s Kitchen - Southern
• Frenchtown Farmers Market - Produce, Farm goods
• Great Plates - Southern
• Leola's Crabshack - Seafood
• Milk Me Lactation Treats - Postpartum Sweet treats
• Mo-Betta BBQ - Barbeque
• Nefetari's - Fine Dining
• O’Leans Cafe - Southern/Breakfast
• Q-Ti Cakes - Sweet treats, personalized cupcakes, baking classes
• SneauxBall Catering Co. - Sweet treats
• Soul Veg - Vegan
• The Spotted Dick Foodery - Bakery/Guyanese
• Toni's Kitchen​ - Soul food, Seafood

PRoFessional Services

• 21st Century Research and Evaluation, Inc - Research designs, program planning, systems management, policy analysis
• Abelita LLC - Consulting, advisory, coaching, staff augmentation services
• Alpha & Omega Welding LLC - Construction, metalsmith services
• Angel 36 Apparel LLC
  
• Ann & Abe Nicholson Cleaning Service - Janitorial services
• Attention to Details Janitorial Services, Inc
• Black News Channel​​ - Tallahassee-based national news source
• Djuan Tucker Concrete LLC
• ESP Media Production Company - Full-range public relations services
• Gentle Hands Tallahassee Playspace - Indoor playground, rental event space
• Mandisa Ngozi Braiding Gallery
• Naturally "U" Braid Studio
• Sheffield’s Body Shop - Automotive collision repair
• Small Business Development Center at FAMU - Entrepenuer resources
• Teaching Tree Academy​ - Child care

CALLS TO ACTION & HOW TO GET INVOLVED

• Justice for Mychael Johnson - killed by TPD officer in March 2020
• Project Annie - providing resources and food for people of need in Frenchtown
• Actions for Solidarity: #BlackTransLivesMatter Google doc

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(Inter)national Shopping — Black-owned Products & Retailers

Support black entrepreneurs, makers, producers, growers, and retailers around the world..

Guides & Directories

• Shoppe Black
• Support Black Owned
• Black Owned Business Network
• Black Nation - Website and iOS app directory
• I Am Black Business - Website and mobile app (Apple and Android) directory
• Official Black Wall Street - The largest platform for Black businesses
• Buy From a Black Woman
• WeBuyBlack
• Banks, hotels, colleges and universities - Blackout Coalition
• Directory of Canadian businesses and entrepenuers from Afrobiz
• How to Find and Support Black-Owned Businesses Locally and Online from lifehacker

Bookstores

• Bookstores in the US from African American Literature Book Club

Fashion

• Kawaii Brands from Stephano
• 35+ Beauty Brands from lifeshehas.com
• 10 Fashion Brands to Support Instead of Dolls Kill from Altpress
• Plus sized clothing brands from Stylish Curves

Artisan & Home Decor

• 100+ Etsy Shops by themadmommy.com

Food

• 11 Vegan Businesses that Ship Nationwide from VegOut Magazine
• The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms and Food Gardens from Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association

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#BLM Resources

Get involved with the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Calls to Action & Organizations

• The Movement for Black Lives - Providing a space for Black organizations across the country to debate, discuss, and convene to co-create a shared movement wide strategy: the fundamental idea being that we can achieve more together than we can separately.
• BlackOUT Collective - Providing personalized direct action trainings and on the ground action support.
• Blackout Day - July 7, 2020
• Ways You Can Help Ways - blacklivesmatters.carrd.co
• Protesters’ Rights from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• The Okra Project - Seeking to address the hunger crisis that Black trans people experience worldwide, providing food and companionship, training, the International Grocery Fund, and more.
• How to Financially Help BLM With No Money/Leaving Your House - YouTube channel featuring black artists and musicians. Ad revenue is donated to several reputable racial justice charities.
• Take Action with Amnesty International

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The following organizations have received overwhelming support during the last few weeks and have requested that other organization receive priority in donations. We still encourage watching these organizations for ongoing action and future needs.

• Black Visions Collective - Aiming to center our work in healing and transformative justice principles to develop Minnesota's emerging Black leadership to lead powerful campaigns.
• Reclaim the Block - Minneapolis community and city council organization, reclaiming funds from the police department into other areas of the city's budget to promote community health and safety. Reclaim the Block created a guide to funding our broader movement.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - Focused on federal advocacy, education, economic opportunities, criminal justice, health, and environmental and climate justice.

BAIL FUNDS FOR BLM PROTESTORS

Local

• Florida Bail Fund
• IWOC Statewide Bail Fund

​National

• National Bailout
• The Bail Project

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Media Library

Introspection, examination of bias, and intentional self-improvement is a lifelong process. It's important to view diverse stories, listen to a wide array of voices, and read words written by marginalized people.

THINGS TO WATCH

Netflix

• 13th - Documentary about the US Prison Boom.
• When They See Us - True crime docuseries following five young people charged with, and later exonerated for, the assault and rape of a jogger in Central Park.
• Black Earth Rising - Story of a Rwandan genocide survivor, adopted as a child by a British international criminal law prosecutor.
• Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap - Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination, and centuries of inequality have compounded.
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story - True crime docuseries about a Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite never being convicted of a crime.
• Who Killed Malcolm X? - Documentary miniseries reveals new findings and raising new questions about his 1965 murder and the involvement of the three men arrested for the crime.
• Dear White People (Netflix) - Comedy drama series following a group of black college students at an Ivy League college.

Criterion Collection (currently offering free streaming for content focused on Black Americans)

• Black Mother documentary directed by Khalik Allah
• The Watermelon Woman directed by Cheryl Dunye
• Body and Soul directed by Oscar Micheaux
• Down in the Delta directed by Maya Angelou
• Daughters of the Dust directed by Julie Dash
• Portrait of Jason directed by Shirley Clarke
• Black Panthers directed by Agnès Varda
• Losing Ground directed by Kathleen Collins

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TedTalks

• 3 Ways to Speak English - TedTalk from Jamila Lyiscott
• An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter - TedTalk from Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
• The Path to Ending Systemic Racism in the US - TedTalk from Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, and Anthony D. Romero
• Color Blind or Color Brave? - TedTalk with Mellody Hobson explaining the importance of open discussion of race for better business society.
• Talks to Help You Understand Racism in America - TedTalk playlist

Other media outlets

• 3 Brothers-Radio Raheem, Eric Garner, and George Floyd (Twitter) - Short film from Spike Lee released 5/31/2020 as part of the BLM Protests.

Resources & Lists

• 10 Documentaries about Race from DOCPLAY
• Black Table Arts - Providing access to quality, art-based programs that center education, social justice, and artistic development to uplift black lives.
• Black Theatre Matters - Comprehensive list of equity and non-equity theatres across America.

THINGS TO LISTEN TO

• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - A podcast that features key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism.
• Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers - A podcast exploring how we live in fullness f our queer Black lives.
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? George the Poet. - Delivers a fresh take on inner city life.
• 1619 - Spotify podcast telling the story of 20 enslaved Africans arriving in the English colony of Virginia.

Resources & Lists

• Black Lives Matter - Spotify playlist dedicated to black empowerment and pride.
• 20 Black ​Punk Bands from okayafrica

CHILDREN'S READING LIST & RESOURCES

Books

• This Is The Dream by Diane Z. Shore and Jessica Alexander, illustrated by James Ransome
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester and Karen Barbour
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo
• I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow
• The Code Switch by Ramona T. Nickens and Yvetta Doll Franklin, illustrated by Tammy Artis
• Skin Like Mine by LaTashia M. Perry, illustrated by Brittany Jackson
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
• B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings by Dr. Melissa Munro Boyd
• Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America by Emily Eason, illustrated by Ziyue Chen

Resource lists

• Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race from BooksforLittles.com
• Anti-Racism 102: Why Not All Racial Discrimination is “Racism” book collection from BooksforLittles.com
• Ending Police Brutality: At-Home Family Action Toolkit from the Student Ignition Society: Raising Luminaries
• 37 Children’s Books to Help Talk About Racism & Discrimination from Colours of Use
• Social Justice Resources from The Children’s Community School
• ​Are Your Kids Too Young to Talk About Race? resource list from PrettyGoodDesign.org
• The Racist Children's Songs You Might Not Have Known Were Racist from Vox
• The Very Best Code Switch Podcast Episodes for Kids from NPR

Adult Reading List

Books

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
• The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn, Susuan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Tallahassee born)
• Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• How to Be An Antiracist by Ibra X. Kendi
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo, PhD
• How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
• West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model
• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
• Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph

​Resource lists

• Anti-Racism list from BookShop.org
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk about Race & Racism from Fractured Atlas
• Black Lives Matter from the Associated Press
• Anti-Racism Beginner Guide (Open) - regularly updated public GoogleDoc