Resources

Books:

  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

  • The Sum of Us by Heather Mcghee

  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Ressma Menakem 

  • How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

  • The Politics of Trauma by Staci K. Hines

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Disconnect by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis

  • Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y Davis

  • Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

  • All The White Friends I Couldn’t Keep by Andre Henry

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • All About Love by bell hooks

  • Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Articles:

podcasts:

  • Code Switch from NPR

  • Ear Hustle with Earlonne Woods

  • Hear to Slay with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMIllan Cottom

  • About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

  • Strange Fruit with Jaison Gardner and Dr. Kaila Story

  • Yo, Is this Racist? with Tawny Newsome and Andrew Ti

documentaries:

  • 13th dir. Ava DuVernay (Netflix)

  • Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS)


Resources for Children & Families

Books:

5 years old & under

  • Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs

  • The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Kleats 

  • Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Kleats 

  • Let’s Talk About Race by Julias Lester

  • The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

  • Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli

6-11 years old

  • IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson

  • The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy 

  • Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass

  • Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hammer by Carole Boston Weatherton

  • Freedom River by Dorren Rappaport

  • Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram x. Kendi and Jason Renyolds

12 years old & up

  • How To Be a Young Antiractist by Ibram X. Kendi (with The Young Antiract’s Workbook)

  • Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphing History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi and Joel Christian Gill

  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

  • Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed

  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

  • A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee

podcasts:

  • Listen To My Skin from PBS

  • But Why? Special Live episode with Carolyn Helsel and Y. Joy Harris-Smith

  • Activist You! with Lindz Amer

Videos: