Resources

Our country needs unity now more than ever. The following resources serve as tools to educate ourselves and others to better assist our community in unison.

READ

Articles & Sites

Books

  • Ain’t No Makin It- Jay MacLeod
  • Algorithms of Oppression- Safiya Noble
  • America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis
  • Angela Davis: An Autobiography 
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Becoming- Michelle Obama
  • Fire In Beulah- Rilla Askew
  • How To Be An Anti-Racist- Ibram Kendi
  • How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance- Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
  • Insider Outsider – Bryan Loritts
  • Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America- Jennifer Harvey
  • Right Color, Wrong Culture – Bryan Loritts
  • Some of My Best Friends are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America- Tanner Colby
  • So You Want to Talk About Race- Ijeoma Oluo
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America- Ibram X. Kendi
  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America -Khalil Gibran Muhammad
  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism- Edward Baptist
  • The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness-
  • Michelle Alexander
  • The Water Dancer- Ta-Nehisi Coates 
  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to Be White – Daniel Hill
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism- Robin DiAngelo
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son- Tim Wise
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide- Carol Anderson Ph.D.

WATCH

Netflix

YouTube Documentaries 

TedTalks

Movies 

  • The Hate U Give (2018)
  • The Help (2011)
  • Detroit (2017)
  • Selma (2014)
  • I Am Not Your Negro (2018)
  • Ray (2004)
  • Do The Right Thing (1989)
  • Malcom X (1992)
  • Blindspotting (2018)
  • Fruitvale Station (2013)
  • 12 Years A Slave (2013)