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.
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Articles & Sites
- Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge
- How to be an ally
- Guide to Allyship: An evolving open-source guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.
- Divided By Design
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
- White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son
- Vox: One reason Why Coronavirus Hits Black People The Hardest
- Vox: The Charleston Shooting…
- Vox: The U.S. Medical System is Haunted By Slavery
- Vox: Why So Many Black People in the U.S. Can’t Swim
- Vox: American Segregation Mapped, Day and Night
TedTalks
- How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing– Phillip Atiba Goff
- An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter– Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi
- Racism has a cost for everyone– Heather C. McGhee
- How racism makes us sick– David R. Williams
- My road trip through the whitest towns in America-Rich Benjamin
- Link to other related TedTalks about racism:
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)