LibGuides: Antiracism: A Resource Guide: Organizations

Be Informed, Make Connections, Find a Cause, Get Involved!

The good news is there are oodles of organizations devoted to antiracism, racial equity and social justice issues, including groups at Skyline College.

While it's impossible to list them all, below are a few places to start--suggestions of organizations and groups that might inspire or assist you with your own journey to be an antiracist.

Skyline College Clubs and Learning Communities

Black Student Union (BSU)
Brothers Achieving Milestones (BAM) Brothers Achieving Milestones (BAM) provides space for men of color at Skyline College to speak freely, engage in a supportive community of men and strive for personal and academic success. BAM enables members to excel academically, make positive change on campus and in their communities, demonstrate their individual and collective strengths and build one another into the leadership of the future. We encourage you to invest in yourself and join BAM Today! BAM offers a series of services to facilitate student success and build a support community. While programming is regularly developed to meet the needs and interest of students. For more information, contact TRiO and BAM Director Michael Stokes at stokesm@smccd.edu or call (650) 738-4161.
Center for Innovative Practices through Hip Hop Education & Research (CIPHER) We make education hyper-relevant. CIPHER is a hip hop and social justice community that seeks to foster leadership development and creativity both in and out of the classroom. CIPHER strives to reach youth and students through hip hop music, tying their education with topics that are relevant and interesting to their generation.
Umoja-African-American Success Through Excellence and Persistence Learning Community (ASTEP) Since 1982, The Skyline College Umoja-ASTEP Learning Community has assisted students of all ethnicities in identifying their abilities, strengths and talents. The program is designed to aid, support and encourage students to fulfill their academic and educational goals of transferring to a four-year college, university, or earning an Associate’s degree or vocational certificate. Umoja-ASTEP courses are taught by an eclectic cohort of wonderfully motivated instructors whose goal is to create an engaging atmosphere where learning is innovative, artistic, and intellectually inspiring.
Women's Mentoring and Leadership Academy (WMLA) WMLA is empowering and transforming women at Skyline College to achieve personal and professional growth. We seek to accomplish this mission by providing women from disproportionately impacted groups with social and academic support via individual, group and peer mentoring, and through leadership development opportunities. WMLA aims to provide contextualized and experiential learning that will foster intellectual, cultural, social, economic and personal fulfillment for women who participate in the academy.

Inspired by Students...

It Gets Better Project The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you are trying to affirm and assert your sexual orientation and/or gender identity. It can be a challenging and isolating process – but, the good news is, no one has to do it alone.
March for Our Lives Our mission is to harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives. We cannot allow one more person to be killed by senseless gun violence, to experience the pain of losing a loved one or to wait for a call or a text that never comes. We cannot allow the normalization of gun violence to continue. We must create a safe and compassionate nation for all of us.

Working for Change...

Black Lives Matter #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Color of Change Color of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America. Color of Change leads campaigns that build real power for Black communities. We challenge injustice, hold corporate and political leaders accountable, commission game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advance solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.
Poor People's Campaign In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up this unfinished work and people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, affect policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor communities.

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