By Leah Collins

I’ve read that phrase a lot this week, as social media was blotted out by dark boxes. What does it mean to listen and learn? What does acting on it look like? (And I don’t mean regramming a meme.) This analysis of the #blackouttuesday movement takes a hard look at “performative allyship” and how social media plays a role in activism, and it ends with a helpful quote from author Feminista Jones: “I want people to keep their heads up, keep focused, really start educating themselves, listen to the organizers who have been doing this for a long time, stop with the performances, and focus on the tangible and direct actions that will help the people out here doing the work.”

So because education never stops: An antiracist reading list from the New York Times. For a Black Canadian point of view, CBC Books recommends these 25 titles. Also from around the CBC, this master list of podcasts, interviews, documentaries and books. Everything included highlights the Black experience in Canada. CBC Music prepared this resource on how to support Black Canadian musicians right now. Beyond the docs you can watch on CBC Gem (including The Skin We’re In, Deeply Rooted, HERstory in Black), Canadian production company Mongrel Media made two of their feature documentaries available for free streaming: I Am Not Your Negro and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. (Here’s Amanda Parris’s review of the latter.) There’s truth in fiction, too. (Stream these Canadian movies by Black filmmakers.)

Source: CBC Arts