By Reinesse Wong
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has been a movement that some may find controversial. However, BLM and racial inequality were certainly important issues in the 2020 presidential election, and also for many Irvington high school students, as indicated by The Paw Print Online’s politics poll, which found that 28% of students surveyed listed social inequality as the most important issue to them.
The following are some resources compiled by activist Aliya Huprikar, a junior at IHS, and two other high school students. She is involved in local youth groups, such as Treeage, XR youth, Sunrise Movement, and more. This is the link to her Linktree page: http://www.linktr.ee/liberation
This link will bring you to the compiled guide and resource list. This 43-page resource list contains information on where to donate money, how/where to support black-owned businesses, mutual aid and networks, how to help from home, and general resources for non-BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
The section “how to help from home” contains a plethora of resources including videos, books, movies, articles, and studies. A great intro about BLM is this flyer, which contains general information about the BLM movement. There is also a link to a podcast titled Sawbones: The Black Panthers and Public Health here.
The other section of interest is “For non-BIPOC”, a section containing resources for non-BIPOC, especially anti-racist resources. Exploring this section is important to understand the threat of white supremacy.
The BLM movement is an international social movement, formed in the United States in 2013, dedicated to fighting racism and anti-black violence, especially in the form of police brutality. It is important to understand the motives behind this movement and what they mean.
Educating youths of the new generation about what social equality means is important to understand injustices that have been committed against people of color in history and what we can do to make things right.
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