Research Guides: Anti-Racist Resource List (Haverford College): Philadelphia Resources

Black Lives and Abolition Organizations

Black Lives Matter Philly
This is a link for the Philadelphia Chapter of Black Lives Matter Twitter account, which is more active than their website.
Black and Brown Workers Co-op
The Black and Brown Workers Cooperative’s mission is to actively challenge, resist and dismantle systems of oppression that adversely impact the Black and Brown worker. Thus, we push for the social and economic liberation of the Black and Brown worker.
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund
The mission of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is to end cash bail in our city. Until that day, we post bail for our neighbors who cannot afford to pay.
Philadelphia Bail Fund
The Philadelphia Bail Fund is a revolving fund that posts bail for people who cannot afford it. Our goal is to keep families together and end money bail.
Reclaim Philadelphia
Reclaim Philadelphia has been reclaiming and restoring political power back to people since 2016. Reclaim Philadelphia endorses and supports progressive candidates and policies that fight for a vision of putting working people before the profits of corporations and the super rich.

COLOURS
Mission: To positively affect the decision making process of LGBTQ+ people of color through the development of activities, trainings, programs, and reading materials aimed at attacking the underpinnings of disempowerment in our community. These mechanisms will improve communication and information sharing, enhance self esteem, and support devices, while developing the talents, beauty, strength, and courage of the community in the greater Philadelphia area.
Morris Home
Morris Home supports trans- and gender-nonconforming individuals as they develop the knowledge, skills and supports necessary to promote sobriety, manage emotional and behavioral difficulties, choose and maintain safe and healthy lifestyles, and develop healthy relationships with peers, family and the community. Morris Home, the only residential recovery program in the country to offer comprehensive services specifically for the transgender community, provides a safe, recovery-oriented environment in which people are treated with respect and dignity.
Mazzoni Center
Mission: To provide quality comprehensive health and wellness services in an LGBTQ-focused environment, while preserving the dignity and improving the quality of life of the individuals we serve.

Black-owned bookstores in Philadelphia
A list of Black-owned Philadelphia bookstores compiled in June 2020 by Philadelphia Magazine.

Race and exclusion in Philadelphia: Snapshots from the past 100 years -- Part I
First part of a two-part series by CPGC's Eric Hartman and Stephanie Keene. They share a non-exhaustive list of regional exclusion and racism, during the past 100 years, frequently backed by corporate and/or government authorities. That history helps explain how Philadelphia has developed considerable entrenched poverty, segregation, and related life expectancy gaps.
Race and exclusion in Philadelphia: Snapshots from the last 100 years – Part II
The second part of the series by CPGC's Stephanie Keene and Eric Hartman.
How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia
Decades after civil rights laws overruled racist policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, new analysis shows that deep disparities linger.
The Enduring Impact of Historical and Structural Racism On Urban Violence In Philadelphia
Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the physical places and environments where violence is concentrated. This study is aimed to explore the association between historic place-based racial discrimination captured in the 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) map of Philadelphia and present-day violent crime and firearm injuries. This analysis extends historic perspective to the relationship between emplaced structural racism and violence, and situates the socio-ecological context in which people live at the forefront of this association.

The Philadelphia Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois; Elijah Anderson (Introduction by Elijah Anderson)
ISBN: 9780812215731
Publication Date: 1995-12-29
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship--the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published. EBOOK AVAILABLE

Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations
Established in 1951 under the City’s Home Rule Charter, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations is the local agency that enforces the civil rights laws and deals with matters of intergroup conflict within the City of Philadelphia.