Anti-Racism Resources
Over the past few days I’ve had a lot of information containing shows, movies, podcasts and books that people should read in their fight to end racism sent my way. I decided to gather all of these resources and compile them in one place. In my research I found that some of the listed items we’re taken from USA Today articles and I added several of my own suggestions to the list as well. We’ve got to start somewhere. Happy reading!
To Watch:
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- 13th (Netflix)
- I Am Not Your Negro (Amazon Prime Video)
- 16 Shots (Showtime)
- Whose Streets (Hulu)
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Amazon Prime Video)
- Strong Island (Netflix)
- Teach Us All (Netflix)
- Just Mercy (Amazon Prime Video)
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Amazon Prime Video)
- Do the Right Thing (Amazon, Hulu, iTunes)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Amazon, iTunes)
- Loving (Amazon, iTunes)
- Selma (Amazon, iTunes)
- Crime + Punishment (Hulu)
To Listen:
- 1619 Podcast (New York Times)
- Code Switch Podcast (NPR)
- There Goes the Neighborhood (WNYC Studios)
- Caught (WNYC Studios)
- 70 Million (Listen online here)
- Uncivil (Gimlet)
- 74 Second (Listen online here)
- Floodlines (The Atlantic)
- All My Relations (Listen online here)
- Lynching in America (Apple Podcasts)
- Intersectionality Matters (Listen online here)
- The Groundlings (Apple Podcasts)
- Brookings Cafeteria (Spotify, Apple Podcasts)
- Justice in America (Apple Podcasts)
- Beyond Prisons (Listen online here)
- Ear Hustle (Listen online here)
- Radical Imagination (Listen online here)
To Read:
- “This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work” by Tiffany Jewell
- “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- “A is for Activist” by Innosanto Nagara
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership” by Ed Gordon
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do” by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- “Raising White Kids” by Jennifer Harvey
- “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
- “The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement” by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris
- “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by Bryan Stevenson
- “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
- “The Fire This Time” by Jesmyn Ward
- “Men We Reaped” by Jesmyn Ward
- “Conversations in Black” by Ed Gordon
- “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein
- “White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation” by Lauren Michele Jackson
- “Assata” by Assata Shakur
- “Eloquent Rage” by Brittany Cooper
- “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad
- “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A. Washington
- “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabelle Wilkerson
- “They Were Her Property” by Stephanie E. Jones Rogers
- “She Came to Slay” by Erika Armstrong Dunbar
- “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement” by Wesley Lowery
- “Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That The Movement Forgot” by Mikki Kendall
- “Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” by bell hooks
- “Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People” by Ben Crump
- “From Slavery To Freedom: A History of African Americans” by John Hope Franklin
- “The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear” by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and William Barber II
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
- “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
Impactful Fiction From Black Authors:
- “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange
- “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
- “Passing” by Nella Larsen
- “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
- “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
- “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith
- “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
- “The Mothers” by Brit Bennett
- “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
Children’ Books:
- “The Colors of Us” by Karen Katz
- “Let’s Talk About Race” by Julius Lester
- “The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism” by Pat Thomas
- Sesame Street’s “We’re Different, We’re the Same” by Bobbi Jane Kates
- “Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice” by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
- “I Am Enough” by Grace Byers
- “Happy in Our Skin” by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia
- “Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement” by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
- “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” by Jennifer Harvey
- “Daddy Why Am I Brown?: A healthy conversation about skin color and family” by Bedford F. Palmer
- “A Terrible Thing Happened” by Margaret Holmes
- “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi
For Teens:
- “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
- “Harbor Me” by Jacqueline Woodson
- “This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work” by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
- “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson
- “Dear White People” by Justin Simien
Also linking to a few other great resources for children’s books:
