Resources

Resources

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.” - Og Mandino

Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) – Netflix

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) – Netflix

• Selma (Ava DuVernay) – Available to rent

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) – Netflix

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) – Available to rent

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) – Hulu

• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) – Available to rent and free across digital platforms

• The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker) – Available to rent

• American Son (Kenny Leon) – Netflix

• King In The Wilderness – HBO

• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) – Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 – Available to rent

• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) – Available to rent

• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) – Available to rent or on Kanopy

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution – Available to rent

• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) – Hulu

Books to read:

• What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• Anything James Baldwin wrote

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  by Michelle Alexander

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
  by Grace Lee Boggs

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Videos to watch:

• 8:46 | Dave Chappelle

  Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

• Black-ish

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

• Seeing White

• About Race

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter

• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Black Lives Matter: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

More resources to check out:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project

• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

  Resources to teach children:

• Books:

  • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

  • 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• Podcasts:

  • Fare of the Free Child podcast

  • Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Articles:

  • Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

  • PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month