Books (a list of Black-owned bookstores can be found here)
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Renni Eddo-Lodge
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lord
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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
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Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
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How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
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Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
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Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
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West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Children’s Books
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Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
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Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano PhD, Marietta Collins PhD, Ann Hazzard PhD and Jennifer Zivoin
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The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and Auréila Durand
Articles
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Fuck Lena Dunham and the White Feminist Horse She Rode In On by Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt
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The Most Dangerous Person in America is the White Woman by Danielle S
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The Culture of Whiteness by James Mulholland
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The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy by Yawo Brown
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This Racist Sh*t Won’t Change Until White People Put In Work by Rachel Ricketts
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Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me! by Real Talk: WOC & Allies
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Racism Defined by Dismantling Racism Works
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Dear White People, Your “Dictionary Definition” of Racism is Wrong by Sebastian Whitaker
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White Spaces Missing Faces by Catrice Jackson
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The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to My White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn by Rachel Ricketts
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How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century by Vivien Chou
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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
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Whiteness is Disembodiment: Notes on White Cultural Loss by Bear Hebert
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White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement by Dr. Robin Diangelo
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Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement - Here’s What You’ve Missed by Ijeoma Oluo
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How to Decolonize Your Yoga Practice by Susanna Barkataki
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When Spiritual Bypassing Meets Racism Meets Gaslighting by Camille Williams
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Converting Hidden Spiritual Racism Into Sacred Activism: An Open Letter to Spiritual White Folks by Virginia Rosenberg
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Why White Lady Sisterhood Needs to Evolve by Rachael Rice
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Surviving Oppression; Healing Oppression article by Vanissar Tarakali
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This is What Black Burnout Feels Like article by Tiana Clark
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Why Mixed-Race Americans Will Not Save The Country by Alexandros Orphanides
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100 Ways to Support—Not Appropriate From—Native People by Simon Moya-Smith
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1619 Project by The New York Times
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The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Becoming a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Matter by Clint Smith
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Why We Need to Stop Saying 'People of Color' When We Mean 'Black People by
Joshua Adams
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When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs by Tre Johnson
Podcasts
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Seeing White (Scene On Radio Podcast)
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1619 (New York Times)
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Code Switch (NPR)
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Intersectionality Matters! (hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw)
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Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast (Race Forward)
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Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
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Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
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Doing Anti-Racism Work with Rachel Ricketts (RECLAIM episode)
Things to Watch
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13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
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3 1/2 Minutes. Ten Bullets - Available to rent
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American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
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Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
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Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
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Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
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Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
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Do Not Resist - Available to rent
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First Australians - Available to rent
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Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
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I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
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If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
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Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
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King In The Wilderness — HBO
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Putaparri And The Rainmakers - Available to rent
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Quest - Available to rent
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See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
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Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
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The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
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The House I Live In - Available to rent
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When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Miscellaneous
- Expressive Writing Prompts to Use If You’ve Been Accused of White Fragility, Spiritual Bypass or White Privilege by Leesa Renee Hall
- 135 Racial Equity Resources For Education, Professional & Community Development, Health, And Civil Rights by College Consensus
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