Trivers stands with the Black Community – our employees, our collaborators, our contractors, our friends, our family, and our neighbors. We stand in solidarity with the Black Community against systemic racism across 400 years of our nation’s history.
We are duty-bound as architects to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Trivers encourages everyone within our network to do what you can to help, whether its donating, protesting, joining organizations, supporting Black-owned businesses, reading books, listening to podcasts on race and diversity, or having difficult conversations. We promise to do the same.
We must consider how the work we do as designers impacts how we live together, as the events of the last few months have only elevated our understanding of how unsafe our Black Community members are in public spaces, and even their own homes. We must marshal creative design strategies to dismantle privilege and power structures that use design as a tool of oppression.
As part of our ongoing commitment to anti-racism work, we have compiled a list of resources for education and activism. There is a lot of work to be done. “Do One Thing” has become our weekly motto – a call to action for our employees and those in our networks to be allies today and always.
This list is a living document, and we welcome new ideas and resources. Email social@trivers.com if you have something to share.
Amplify Black Voices
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
https://www.blackspace.org/manifesto
https://forwardthroughferguson.org/
Design as Protest | bit.ly/dap-action-01
Equity by Design [EQxD] | http://eqxdesign.com/
Social Media Accounts
Expect Us St. Louis (Facebook)
@actionstl (Instagram)
@stlactivist (Instagram)
Best Practices, Voices, and Research of Women, Black People, and White Allies at the Intersection of Placemaking and Race | Keith Benjamin @rkbtwo (Twitter Thread)
Protests
Donate
Action St. Louis | https://actionstl.org/donate
ArchCity Defenders | https://www.archcitydefenders.org/
St. Louis Mutual Aid Fund | https://stlmutualaid.org/ | https://donorbox.org/stl-mutual-aid-fund
The Bail Project | https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project
Rest for Resistance | https://restforresistance.com/donate
The Organization for Black Struggle | https://www.obs-stl.org/
Spend
Black-Owned Restaurants to Support in St. Louis Right Now | FEAST Magazine
Black-Owned Business Directory | STL Black Biz
For the Culture STL | For the Culture STL
Black Woman Owned Bookstore | Elizabeth’s
Read
Websites
Campaign Zero | https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Mapping Police Violence | https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Black History Month Library | https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync
Books
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It | Mindy Thompson Fullilove
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein
A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States | Imani Perry
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and Stokely Carmichel
Freedom Is Not Enough: the Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle Over Black Family Life — From LBJ to Obama | James T Patterson
We’re On: A June Jordan Reader | June Jordan, Christopher Keller, and Jan Heller Levi
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism | Edward E Baptist
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy | Carol Anderson
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement | Angela Y Davis
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty | Dorothy Roberts
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Douglas A. Blackmon
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America | Melissa V. Harris-Perry
A Black Women’s History of the United States | Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? | Martin Luther King
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Counting Descent | Clint Smith
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America | Kiese Laymon
Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing | Multiple Contributors
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou
The Bluest Eye | Tonu Morrison
The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
Children’s Books
A is for Activist | Innosanto Nagara
Let the Children March | Monica Clark-Robinson
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
Muhammad Ali
Sonny’s Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Sisters: Venus & Serena Williams
Mr. George Baker
These Hands
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins
My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream
White Socks Only
The Man who Built A Library
Brown Girl, What Do You See?
The Case for Loving: The Fight fo Interracial Marriage
Steamboat School
Let’s Talk about Race
The Other Side
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis found his sound
Freedom over Me
Ron’s Big Mission
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Freedom Bird
I Am Rosa Parks
The Bell Rang
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Articles
The Pandemic’s Impact on Racial Inequity and Violence Can’t Be Ignored | The Trace
Police brutality is a public health crisis | VOX
Confronting power and privilege for inclusive, equitable, and healthy communities | BMJ Journal
Do All Children Have Places to Be Active? Disparities in Access to Physical Activity Environments in Racial and Ethnic Minority and Lower-Income Communities | Active Living Research
Increasing Diversity in Architecture: Barriers to Entry | Architect Magazine
Listen
1619 | Podcast from The New York Times
George Floyd and the Dominos of Racial Justice | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Youtube)
TED Talks to help you understand racism in America | TED.com
Today, Explained | Podcast from Vox
American Police | npr
Systemic Racism Explained | Act.tv
Code Switch | NPR
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause : From the leadership conference on Civil & Human Rights
Pod Save the People | Crooked Media
Watch
Netflix
The 13th | Ava Duvernay
American Son | Kenny Leon
Dear White People | Justin Simen
See You Yesterday | Stefon Bristol
When They See Us | Ava Duvernay
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Who Killed Malcom X?
Amazon Prime
Just Mercy
Hulu
If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins
The Hate U Give | George Tillman Jr.
Available to Rent:
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu
Fruitvale Station | Ryan Coogler
I Am Note Your Negro | James Baldwin Documentary
Just Mercy | Destin Daniel Cretton
Selma | Ava Duvernay
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Tedx Talks
Let’s get to the root of racial injustice
Black In Bend: Being An Extreme Minority In Suburbia
Additional Resources
Anti-Racism Resources for White People | Google Docs
An Antiracist Reading List | The New York Times
There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus | CityLab
25 Books by Contemporary Black Authors | Penguin Random House
An Essential Anti-Racist Reading List | Vogue
If You Want to Learn About Anti-Racism, These 10 Books Are a Start | Esquire
50 Amazing Books By Black Authors From The Past 5 Years | HuffPost
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race | pretty good design
