We're All In This Together: #BlackLivesMatter Resources From OFSA

Please keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list and will continue to be updated as additional resources are identified.

OFSA recognizes that improvements are essential to ensuring education, understanding and accountability occurs surrounding racism within the Fraternity and Sorority community at Lehigh. It is our goal to create a space where voices are heard. OFSA is in the process of auditing our curriculum, programming and staff training as we collectively work towards a better community together. It is on all of us to ensure we are properly educating ourselves and each other during this time. Our hope is that these resources will serve as a starting point if you have not already begun. OFSA will continue to serve all students and advocate for a socially and equally just experience and environment both in the Fraternity and Sorority Community and Lehigh University Community..

Here are some resources we have found helpful as we work to become an anti-racist community. 

Media

• Netflix Launches Black Lives Matter Collection

• Movies that are streaming free in June 

How to Help

• How To Help Fight For Racial Justice and Equality Right Now

• Take Action: A List of Ways You Can Stand In Solidarity with the Black Community 

• Black Lives Matter - Ways to Help (Donate, Sign Petitions, Call/Text)

• Ways to Help the Black LGBTQ+ Community

Articles

• Anti-Racism Resources for White People

• Fighting For An Anti-Racist Future Together

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

• What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo

• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not

• How Higher Ed Can Stop Racism: 'Speak Up When It's Hard'

• How Racism Lives in Modern Fraternity/Sorority Joining Processes 

• Anti-Racism resources from AFLV 

• Lawrence Ross Expert on Campus Racism

• Why White Silence is Deafening - And Deadly

Lehigh Resources

• Office of Multicultural Affairs 

• The Council for Equity and Community 

• Lehigh Black Student Union 

• MLK Speaker Ibram Kendi

• Black Live Matter online Library Resource

Mental Health

• Headspace

• 7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Supporting Black People Right Now

• Black Lives Matter: Mental Health Resources For and By People of Color

 

Books

• Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses by Lawrence Ross

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum