After the senseless targeted terrorist attack in the Tops market on Buffalo's East Side on Saturday, May 14th, we are all grieving and our hearts are broken.
The links on this page lead to organizations that can assist victims' families and the community, and indicate places accepting donations and looking for volunteers.
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"In the wake of Buffalo's recent tragedy on the east side, WBFO has launched a new daily program, "Buffalo, What's Next?," that unapologetically confronts what led to the shooting.
Beginning Thursday, May 26, each weekday morning at 10 am, WBFO News Director Dave Debo, WBFO Managing Editor Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza, and WBFO Morning Edition Host Jay Moran, will amplify voices that have historically been marginalized.
The hour-long program will provide a forum for open, honest, and candid conversations about what happened, what’s next, and what role each of us can play in solving the problems that caused it."
The program airs again at 9pm on WBFO. It is also available digitally through WBFO’s website, apps and as a podcast.
In the wake of the tragedy that occurred at Tops on Jefferson Ave. on May 14th, the United Way has put together a list of local resources for those affected to immediately receive assistance, ways to help, and online resources that can be used in the weeks and months to come.
1.Local Resources
Resources for Food
Resources for Transportation
Resources for Mental Health
Victim Assistance
2.Ways to Help
Immediate Community Needs
Giving Opportunities
3.Online/Virtual Resources
Mental Health Resources
Resources for Children
Resources for Teens
Resources for Parents & Adults
General Resources
Resources for Teachers/Education Professionals
4.Helplines
An opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how inequity and racism affect our lives and our community.
CHALLENGE TOPICS:
Day 1: Race and Equity
Day 2: Exploring Bias
Day 3: The Meaning Of Privilege
Day 4: Talking About Race
Day 5: Levels of Racism
Day 6: Trauma to Healing
Day 7: White Fragility
Day 8: Opportunity and Segregation in Western New York
Day 9: Housing Inequity
Day 10: The Racial Wealth Gap
Day 11: How Race Affects Your Health
Day 12: Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes
Day 13: Early Childhood
Day 14: Education and School-Aged Children
Day 15: Immigrants and Refugees
Day 16: Equity and The LGBTQI+ Community
Day 17: Building a Race Equity Culture
Day 18: Being an Ally
Day 19: Tools for the Racial Equity Change Process
Day 20: Final Reflections
Day 21: Take Action in WNY
More News resources are located in our Legal Databases by Subject - News guide.
Poet laureate searches for words to comfort Buffalo
Gary Craig, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 16, 2022
What We Get Wrong About Food Insecurity in Places Like Buffalo’s East Side
Jeremy Stahl, Slate, May 19, 2022
Unpacking America’s history with “replacement theory” is complicated (audio, 46 min.)
1A from WAMU May 19, 2022
Buffalo’s Black community is reeling after being targeted by a mass shooting (audio, 47 min.)
1A from WAMU, May 17, 2022
The nauseating familiarity of the Buffalo shooting (audio, 12 min.)
1A from WAMU, May 16, 2022
The rise of the radical right in WNY
Jim Heaney, Investigative Post, May 18, 2022
Buffalo, the Tulsa Massacre, and Legacy of Anti-Black Violence
Jason Johnson, Slate, May 21, 2022
Reparations for Racist Violence? A Word … with Jason Johnson (audio, 37 min.)
May 20, 2022
Jason Johnson is joined by Damario Solomon-Simmons, a civil rights lawyer who is leading an effort to win reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre survivors....
How decades of racism have shaped Buffalo
Charlotte Hsu, UB Research News, May 20, 2022
Henry-Louis Taylor Jr.'s report “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present” is receiving renewed attention following Saturday’s mass shooting at the Tops market on Jefferson Avenue.
THE HARDER WE RUN: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present (2021)
By Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr., Jin-Kyu Jung, and Evan Dash
The Other Kind of Racism in Buffalo (audio, 35 min.)
The NewYorker - Politics and More
May 19, 2022 · by Evan Osnos
".... Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a professor of African American Studies at Princeton. She joins the guest host Evan Osnos to discuss the politics of housing, policing, and education in Buffalo, and how these structural forces relate to the rise of violent right-wing extremism. “We are so enamored with the idea of racism as explicit, as you most certainly know it when you see it,” Taylor says. “But these other manifestations—that mean that forty per cent of Black children in Buffalo live under the poverty line, that thirty-eight per cent of Black adults live under the poverty line, that the quality of housing on the East Side of Buffalo is wood-based and deteriorating compared to the brick houses of the West Side of the city—these kinds of insidious forms of racism are allowed to continue unaddressed for decades.”"
Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership .
by Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, The University of North Carolina Press, 2021
E-book available online at UB
Readings on Racism and Segregation in Buffalo
Compiled by the Buffalo History Museum, June 2022
Everything cited (with links!) is online for free, can be borrowed as a short-term e-book loan, or is available in hard copy through the Buffalo History Museum Library and other libraries.
With All Due Respect (blog authored by attorney Arthur J. Giacalone)
Commentary on land use and development issues – and the legal system
Guest blog post reprints Dr. Lorna I. Peterson's message sent on May 15 to her colleagues at the Black Caucus American Library Association (BCALA): The Neighborhood Surrounding Buffalo NY’s Racially-Motivated Mass Shooting Site.
Collecting Archives in a Crisis- See: EDIAr Committee LibGuide: Current Issues (from the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Committee (EDIAr) of the Western New York Library Resources Council)
Links possibly useful for those who will be working with the local community to preserve and archive records created in response to the May 14 tragedy in Buffalo were shared by Dr. Lorna I. Peterson on the electronic listserv of the WNY Library Resources Council, in an exchange with Cynthia Van Ness. The links Dr. Peterson recommended, among others, are included here.
Buffalo’s East Side was a food desert. The shooting made things worse.
Residents grapple with trauma after a hate crime, and the loss of a vital grocery store
Story by Jacob Bogage; Videos by Zoeann Murphy; Photos by Libby March
Washington Post, June 1, 2022
