Change doesn’t start and finish with posting a black square. We can either run away from change or move towards it.

Our first step will be to listen and learn before we take action. To do that we need your help so that we can understand what we can do as a community to create lasting change.

Here are some resources that our team, our community have found helpful inspired by the list put together by Psycle London: 

WEBSITES

Black Lives Matter (Global)

Black Lives Matter - Ways You Can Help (Global) 

Black Lives Matter Switzerland (Switzerland)

Réseau de centres de conseil pour les victimes du racisme (Switzerland)

Consultation Écoute Contre le Racisme (Switzerland)

Colour of Change (US)

Equal Justice Initiative (US)

The Bail Project (US)

BOOKS

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

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Policing the Black Man by Toni Morrison

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society by Kalwant Bhopal

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (ages 1+)

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (ages 1+)

Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung (ages 1+)

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (ages 3+)

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine (ages 5+)

Little People, Big Dreams (various) (ages 5+)

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History & Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison (ages 5+)

Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson (ages 5+)

What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Nikesh Shukla and Claire Heuchan (ages 10+)

DOCUMENTARIES & FILMS 

13th - Netflix

American Son - Netflix

Black Sheep - Youtube

Dear White People - Netflix

Fruitvale Station - Netflix

If Beale Street Could Talk - Youtube, Amazon and Google Play

Little Fires Everywhere - Amazon

Selma - Youtube, Amazon and Google Play

The Hate U Give - Youtube, Amazon and Google Play

Time: The Kalief Browder Story - Netflix

When They See Us - Netflix (Find a learning companion here.)

INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS

@blklivesmatter - Official Black Lives Matter Page

@blm_lausanne - Black Lives Matter Lausanne

@collectifamani - Afro-femisit collective based in Nyon

@cabbak_bielbienne - Afro-femisit collective based in Bienne

@ckyourprivilege - Informative posts and ways to take action

@laylafsaad - Author and teacher

@rachel.cargle - public academic, writer, and lecturer