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Resource Guide
People and Organizations to Follow
This list is a work-in-progress. We'd love to hear any feedback and additional resources we should add. Thanks!
Beginner's Guide (Intro)
Here are resources if you are just beginning your journey.
BOOKS
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
ARTICLES
Easy Read: 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real from Ben & Jerry's
Read The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts
View the Standing United Deck - The Fight Against Inequality
A Guide to Allyship (Amelie LaMont)
How to Begin to Talk about Race in the Workplace
Decentering Whiteness in a Multiracial Society
Read ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Your Kids Aren’t too Young to Talk about Race: a guide
100 Race-Conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice
Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race
"5 Ways to Talk about Criminal Justice Reform at Your Family Gathering"
WATCH
White Fragility talk with Robin DiAngelo (1 hr 23 min)
5 Tips For Being an Ally (Franchesca Ramsey)
ACTION LISTS + TOOLKITS
Anti-Racist Resource Guide compiled by Victoria Alexander
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
READ
BOOKS
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
A People’s History of the United States
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Reclaiming our space: How black feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
So You Want to Talk About Race
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Lovely
We're Different. We're the Same (Sesame Street)
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
My Hair is a Garden
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
I Am Not A Number
Something Happened in Our Town
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Ruth and the Green Book
We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
When We Were Alone
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
ARTICLES
"The 1619 Project" (all the articles)
"Toward a Racially Just Workplace"
"The Day-to-Day Work of Diversity and Inclusion"
"Why So Many Organizations Stay White"
"Success Comes From Affirming Your Potential"
US Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism (June 2020)
"What MBAs Can Do in Defense of Black Lives"
"7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real"
"5 Ways to Talk about Criminal Justice Reform at Your Family Gathering"
"Going Back to Work After Protests"
"Still a Target Still a Leader - Creating Space for Humans"
"Love Letter to the Onlys: Underrepresented People Experiencing Tokenism and Isolation at Work"
"Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death...is a lot."
Standing United Deck - The Fight Against Inequality
How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice
"The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts"
"How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change"
"The Lens of Systemic Oppression" - National Equity Project
"The Difference Between First-degree Racism and Third-degree Racism"
The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Case for Reparations - Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Decentering Whiteness in a Multiracial Society
Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study - NPR
White Women's Tears and the Men Who Love Them (Medium)
"Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?" - The New York Times
PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
"How to Actually Fix America's Police"
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 Combahee River Collective Statement
“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
How Do We Change America? | The New Yorker (June 8, 2020)
America Begins to See More Clearly What Black Citizens Always Knew | National Review (June 11,2020)
Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
Here's How W. Kamau Bell Talks About Race With His Kids
100 Race-Conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice
"Raising Race-Conscious Children"
Anti-Racism For Kids 102: Why Not All Racial Discrimination is ‘Racism’
WATCH
MOVIES
Do the Right Thing
12 Years a Slave
Malcolm X
Dead Presidents
The Learning Tree
Fruitvale Station
VIDEOS
Demonstrating Care for Black Employees (90 minutes)
5 Tips For Being an Ally (4 minutes)
6 Rules for Allies (8 minutes)
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Neil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race (4 minutes)
TED Talk: We Need To Talk About An Injustice (23:23)
The Urgency of Intersectionality (18:49)
How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time (16:43)
The Trauma of Systemic Racism is Killing Black Women (15:25)
How To Overcome Our Biases? Walk Towards Them (17:41)
Racism Has a Cost for Everyone (14:13)
From Reform to Abolition: The Future of the U.S. Prison System (11:31)
Don’t Be A Savior, Be An Ally (9:22)
How to Let Go of Being a Good Person and Becoming a Better Person
White Fragility (baby steps)
LISTEN
Getting White People to Talk About Racism (June 12, 2020)
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Interview about I’m Still Here with author Austin Channing Brown (43 min)
Uncivil by Gimlet Media
The Witness Podcast Network - Pass the Mic
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
TO FOLLOW
Higher Heights Leadership Fund
Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Higher Heights Leadership Fund
Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
National Domestic Workers Alliance
RAICES
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
SisterSong
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Antiracist Research & Policy Center
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
The Marsha P Johnson Institute
The Movement for Black Lives
The Okra Project
United We Dream
Victoria Alexander
Young, Black, & Lit.