
It’s dangerous to not listen–that keeps us from learning.
Here is a small resource list of organizations and people educating and fighting for Black Lives.
Thank you to Herban Healing: Shelagh Brown, Almost Consulting & Kim Julie Hansen for your resource lists.
Please take the time to donate money to those you learn from. No More Free Labor!
SHELAGH BROWN (you have heard from Shelagh on “Ask the Herbalist”)
https://www.instagram.com/herbanhealing/
PayPal: Brandi.brown@bastyr.edu
Venmo: Shelagh
Cash app: $herbanhealing
CATRICE M JACKSON
http://www.catriceology.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/catriceology/
5 part Training Series
LINDA BLACK ELK
https://www.instagram.com/linda.black.elk/
MAJ TOURE
https://www.instagram.com/majtoure/
KENDRIANA WASHINGTON
https://www.kendriana.com/
RACHEL CARGLE
https://www.rachelcargle.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle/
ERICK HART
https://www.instagram.com/ihartericka/
Their Courses
Donate to KIMBERLY HANDY JONES (son killed by MN police in 2017, educating people at the protests)
ORGANIZATIONS & RESOURCES
Here is a compiled RESOURCE LIST from INDIGO including legal/bail information: Thank You!
List of BIPOC/LGBTQIA/WOMEN owned Cannabis and CBD Businesses
Cannaclusive Inclusive Base
List of black owned businesses in Humboldt and other resources
Black Humboldt
Bail Black Mamas (and others) out of jail
Shop and support black owned businesses
We Buy Black
The Black Wallet
Official Black Wall Street
Pay an HONOR TAX (Wiyot/Northern California) to the indigenous people for the land you are living on now
Start one if there isn’t one in your area
Donate to your local chapter of Black Lives Matter
Help to end the incarceration of women and girls
Help women re-enter society after prison
Color of Change: do something real about injustice
BOOKS
Me And White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Layla F. Saad’s Reading List
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Ibram X. Kendi’s Books
KIDS BOOKS (thanks to Blunt Blowing Mama)
Hair Love by Matthew A Cherry
Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
Please Baby, Please by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beatty
The Day You Begin by Rafael Lopez
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Maya Angelou’s Children’s Books
OTHER
Vote!
Run for office.
Sign petitions and call your government.
Get involved locally.
Don’t ask for free labor, that includes racial education. Pay people for their labor.
Host a decolonizing workshop for employees.
Talk to your kids about color, read them books about black children.
Credit and Listen to black voices
Don’t post violent videos of black people being harmed or killed. Instead post about ways we can help or make a change.
Use your everyday privilege to help others
Kiskanu:
Kiskanu Dispensary is supporting BIPOC/LGTBQIA/Women owned brands and offering discounts for “We Love Wednesday”.
Offering free tickets for BIPOC to attend Cannabis Workshops and Educational Events.
Donating products for gifting at BIPOC and equity events.
A percentage of our Dispensary ATM withdrawals goes to National Bailout.
Donating money to above organizations and people.
Aligning with BIPOC/LGTBQIA/Women owned brands, contractors and consultants.
Taking the time to hear, read and learn how to best support the Black community.
Follow us on IG to learn more: Kiskanu
Please let us know how we can support you or how we can do better!
