As part of my UCC Sacred Conversations to End Racism (SC2ER) class, I collected these resources from online sources. Although I blatantly lifted them, I have cited the source links. It’s a lot~~so keep scrolling for the hot links!

I will start with resources on the UCC Racial Justice website, compiled by Rev. Dr. Velda Love https://www.ucc.org/racial_justice_resources_2020

Lynching Justice in America

The Cross and the Lynching Tree Webinar Video

READING RESOURCES

1. Van Sertima, Ivan, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, (New York, NY: Random House, 1976).
2. Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2018).
3. Higginbotham, Leon A., Jr., Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process, (New York, NY: Oxford Press, 1996).
4. Morrison, Toni, The Origins of Others, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).
5. Boesak, Allan Aubrey, Curtiss DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Book, 2012).
6. DiAngelo, Robin, What Does It Mean To Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012).
   ________ White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism, (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2018).
7. Resmaa, Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, (Central Recovery Press: Las Vegas, NV, 2017).
8. Mills, Charles, The Racial Contract, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).
9. Baptist, Edward E., The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2014).
10. Cerrotti, Dennis Lyle, Hidden Genocide, Hidden People. (Wellesley, MA: Sea Venture Press, 2014).
11. Villanueva, Edgar, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2018).
12. Newcomb, Steven T., Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2008).
13. Katz, William Loren, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage. (New York, NY: Atheneum Books, 2012).

VIDEO AND READING RESOURCES BELOW

1. Ibram X. Kendi on the History of Racist Ideas in U.S. Stamped from the Beginning

Online Reading Resources

1. Everyday Racial Microaggressions
   https://world-trust.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/7-Racial-Microagressions-in-Everyday-Life.pdf
2. Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014
   http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/.

THEOLOGIES, CHRISTOLOGIES, AND GOD OF CULTURES

Womanist Documentaries

1. Journey to Liberation: The Legacy of Womanist Theology Legacy of Womanist Theology
2. This is My Body: Black Womanist Christology in Perspective Black Womanist Christology in Perspective
3. Eradicating Misogyny, Heterosexism, and Homophobia in Black Churches  Eradicating Misogyn, Heterosexism, and Homophobia in Black Churches
4. Dr. Renita Weems: [Scream] Trayvon Martin Rev. Dr. Renita Weems Sermon “Scream” Trayvon Martin

Womanist Readings

1. Introducing Womanist Theology – Stephanie Y. Mitchem
2. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation – Nyasha Junior
3. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenges to Womanist God-Talk – Delores S. Williams
4. Enfleshing Freedom, body, race, and being, — M. Shawn Copeland
5. Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation & Transformation – Emile M. Townes
6. Women Race and Class – Angela Davis
   Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

The James Cone Collection

1. For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church: Black Theology and the Life of the Church (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black Book
2. Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
3. A Black Theology of Liberation – Fourtieth Anniversary Edition
4. Black Theology and Black Power
5. God of the Oppressed

Latinx and Mujerista Resources

1. Mujerista Theology – A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
2. A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice, Maria Pilar Aquino
3. Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins, A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament, Fernando F. Sergovia
4. Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/A Perspective – Ruben Rosario Rodriguez
5. The Ties That Bind: African American and Hispanic American/Latino/a Theologies in Dialogue – Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamin Valentin
6. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America – Juan Gonzalez

Asian and Asian American Resources

1. Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology, Anne Joh
2. Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology, Mihee Kim-Kort
3. Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, Soong Chan Rah
4. Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology, Rita Brock
5. Postcolonial Bible (Bible and Postcolonial), R.S. Sugirtharajah
6. Voices from the Margins, R.S Sugirtharajah
7. The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind S. Chou and Joe Feagin

For more Racial Justice Resources and information contact Rev. Dr. Velda Love [email protected]

Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi

By: R Rattusnorvegicus Chicago Public Library Community-created list

“This anti-racist syllabus is for people realizing they were never taught how to be anti-racist. How to treat all the racial groups as equals. How to look at the racial inequity all around and look for the racist policies producing it, and the racist ideas veiling it. This list is for people beginning their anti-racist journey ..” Ibram X. Kendi (author of “How to Be an Antiracist”)

“A Reading List for Ralph Northam”. The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/antiracist-syllabus-governor-ralph-northam/582580/

Fatal Invention How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Roberts, Dorothy

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Kendi, Ibram X.

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by DiAngelo, Robin J.

Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by Forman, James

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou, Maya

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by X, Malcolm

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Mock, Janet

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Cooper, Brittney C.

Heavy: An American Memoir by Laymon, Kiese

The Fire Next Time by Baldwin, James

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Lorde, Audre

Between the World and Me by Coates, Ta-Nehisi

The Fire This Time by Kenan, Randall

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of A Nation by Berry, Daina Ramey

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Foner, Eric

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II by Blackmon, Douglas A.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Muhammad, Khalil Gibran

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Rothstein, Richard

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Sugrue, Thomas J.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Wilkerson, Isabel

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Theoharis, Jeanne

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy by Dudziak, Mary L.

Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by White, Deborah G.

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Giddings, Paula

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Hinton, Elizabeth Kai

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Davis, Angela Y.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan

Roots by Haley, Alex

North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 by Litwack, Leon F.

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and A New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Lowery, Wesley

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Berman, Ari

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Anderson, Carol

Antiracism: An Introduction by Zamalin, Alex

How To Be An Antiracist by Kendi, Ibram X.

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing by Singh, Anneliese A.

The Wellbeing Handbook for Overcoming Everyday Racism: How to Be Resilient in the Face of Discrimination and Microagressions by Cousins, Susan

The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Magee, Rhonda V.

The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement by Horace, Matthew

Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Butler, Paul

Citizen: An American Lyric by Rankine, Claudia

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Glaude, Eddie S.

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Cooper, Brittney C.

Fire Shut up in My Bones: A Memoir by Blow, Charles M.

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness by Brown, Austin Channing

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become A Good Ancestor by Saad, Layla F

My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row by Kitchen, Ronald

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Moore, Darnell L.

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by Mckesson, DeRay

Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement : My Storory of Transformation and Hope by Woodfox, Albert

So You Want to Talk About Race by Oluo, Ijeoma

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Dyson, Michael Eric

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Bennett, Michael

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (white) America by Jerkins, Morgan

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Young, Damon

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Khan-Cullors, Patrisse

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Tatum, Beverly Daniel

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Rowe, Sheila Wise

This Book Is Anti-racist by Jewell, Tiffany

I Am Not your Negro: A Major Motion Picture Directed by Raoul Peck by Baldwin, James

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Glaude, Eddie S.

An Antiracist Reading List NY Times, compiled by Ibram X. Kendi

BIOLOGY

FATAL INVENTION: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century By Dorothy Roberts

No book destabilized my fraught notions of racial distinction and hierarchy — the belief that each race had different genes, diseases and natural abilities — more than this vigorous critique of the “biopolitics of race.” Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, shows unequivocally that all people are indeed created equal, despite political and economic special interests that keep trying to persuade us otherwise. New Press, 2011

ETHNICITY

WEST INDIAN IMMIGRANTS: A Black Success Story? By Suzanne Model

Some of the same forces have led Americans to believe that the recent success of black immigrants from the Caribbean proves either that racism does not exist or that the gap between African-Americans and other groups in income and wealth is their own fault. But Model’s meticulous study, emphasizing the self-selecting nature of the West Indians who emigrate to the United States, argues otherwise, showing me, a native of racially diverse New York City, how such notions — the foundation of ethnic racism — are unsupported by the facts. Russell Sage Foundation, 2008

BODY

THE CONDEMNATION OF BLACKNESS: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America By Khalil Gibran Muhammad

“Black” and “criminal” are as wedded in America as “star” and “spangled.” Muhammad’s book traces these ideas to the late 19th century, when racist policies led to the disproportionate arrest and incarceration of blacks, igniting urban whites’ fears and bequeathing tenaciously racist stereotypes. Harvard University, 2010

CULTURE

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD By Zora Neale Hurston

Of course, the black body exists within a wider black culture — one Hurston portrayed with grace and insight in this seminal novel. She defies racist Americans who would standardize the cultures of white people or sanitize, eroticize, erase or assimilate those of blacks. 1937

BEHAVIOR

THE NEGRO ARTIST AND THE RACIAL MOUNTAIN By Langston Hughes

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” Hughes wrote nearly 100 years ago. “We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.” We are all imperfectly human, and these imperfections are also markers of human equality. The Nation, June 23, 1926

COLOR

THE BLUEST EYE By Toni Morrison

THE BLACKER THE BERRY By Wallace Thurman

Beautiful and hard-working black people come in all shades. If dark people have less it is not because they are less, a moral eloquently conveyed in these two classic novels, stirring explorations of colorism. 1970 | 1929

WHITENESS

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X By Malcolm X and Alex Haley

DYING OF WHITENESS: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland By Jonathan M. Metzl

Malcolm X began by adoring whiteness, grew to hate white people and, ultimately, despised the false concept of white superiority — a killer of people of color. And not only them: low- and middle-income white people too, as Metzl’s timely book shows, with its look at Trump-era policies that have unraveled the Affordable Care Act and contributed to rising gun suicide rates and lowered life expectancies. 1965 | Basic Books, 2019

BLACKNESS

LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman Jr.

Just as Metzl explains how seemingly pro-white policies are killing whites, Forman explains how blacks themselves abetted the mass incarceration of other blacks, beginning in the 1970s. Amid rising crime rates, black mayors, judges, prosecutors and police chiefs embraced tough-on-crime policies that they promoted as pro-black with tragic consequences for black America. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017 (Read the review.)

CLASS

BLACK MARXISM: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition By Cedric J. Robinson

Black America has been economically devastated by what Robinson calls racial capitalism. He chastises white Marxists (and black capitalists) for failing to acknowledge capitalism’s racial character, and for embracing as sufficient an interpretation of history founded on a European vision of class struggle. Zed Press, 1983

SPACES

WAITING ’TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A Narrative History of Black Power in America By Peniel E. Joseph

As racial capitalism deprives black communities of resources, assimilationists ignore or gentrify these same spaces in the name of “development” and “integration.” To be antiracist is not only to promote equity among racial groups, but also among their spaces, something the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s understood well, as Joseph’s chronicle makes clear. Holt, 2006

GENDER

HOW WE GET FREE: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

WELL-READ BLACK GIRL: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Edited by Glory Edim

I began my career studying, and too often admiring, activists who demanded black (male) power over black communities, including over black women, whom they placed on pedestals and under their feet. Black feminist literature, including these anthologies, helps us recognize black women “as human, levelly human,” as the Combahee River Collective demanded to be seen in 1977.

SEXUALITY

REDEFINING REALNESS: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

I grew up in a Christian household thinking there was something abnormal and immoral about queer blacks. My racialized transphobia made Mock’s memoir an agonizing read — just as my racialized homophobia made Lorde’s essays and speeches a challenge. But pain often precedes healing.

Atria, 2014 | Crossing Press, 1984

By not running from the books that pain us, we can allow them to transform us. I ran from antiracist books most of my life. But now I can’t stop running after them — scrutinizing myself and my society, and in the process changing both. Ibram X. Kendi

Anti-Racism Resources: Educate Yourself https://www.projecthome.org/anti-racism-resources

Trainings & Courses

• Justice in June
• Institutionalized Racism: A syllabus
• Scaffolding for anti-racist resources
• Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History and Culture

Articles and Essays

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• 5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence, by SURJ
• The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
• A Brief History of Slavery, NY Times
• I’m not White, I’m Jewish: Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel
• Relinquishing the Patriarchy, adrienne maree brown 
• Calling In and Calling Out, by Roxy Manning
• Wear Your Voice Magazine

Resources for Parents and People Who Work with Children

• Talking to Young Children About Race and Racism (PBS Kids Resource Roundup))
• Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids (Center for Racial Justice Education)
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
• Talking to kids about race
• How to talk to kids about race and racism, according to experts
• Talking Race With Young Children
• Are Your Kids Too Young To Talk About Race
• Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Preparing Young Children for the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities into the Classroom (National Association for the Education of Young Children)
• Helping Youth After Community Trauma: Tips for Educators
• Understanding Child Trauma
• Age-related Reactions to a Traumatic Event

Videos and Film

• Clint Smith’s How to Raise A Black Son in America TedTalk
• Roots of Justice Front Porch Conversation
• 13th (Netflix Documentary)
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• I am Not Your Negro
• What Matters: #BLM Documentary series
• The Color of Fear (Documentary by Lee Mun Wah)
• American Son (Netflix)
• Dear White People (Netflix)
• If Beale St Could Talk (Hulu)
• King In The Wilderness (HBO)
• See You Yesterday (Netflix)
• The Hate You Give (Netflix)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• White Like Me

Podcasts and Audio

• 1619 (NY Times Podcast)
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Show About Race (Panopoly)
• Intersectionality Matters! (Kimberlé Crenshaw)
• Momentum: A Race Forward (Color Lines)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Fare of the Free Child (Raising Free People)
• Small Doses (Amanda Seales)
• Therapy for Black Girls (Dr. Bradford)
• Seeing White: Scene on Radio (Podcast series on whiteness)
• Talking about Whiteness (Eula Bliss, On Being)

Social Media

• @theconsciouskid
• @blackhistoryuntold
• @blklivesmatter
• @blmphilly
• @ckyourprivilege

Books

Where to begin (designed for white allies):

• Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nahesi Coates
• Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi  
• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarnation in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel
• Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise
• Witnessing Whiteness, by Shelly Tochluk
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin Diangelo
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, by Andrea Ritchie

Going Deeper

• killing rage: Ending Racism, by bell hooks
• When They Call You a Terrorist, by Patrisse Cullors
• Eloquent Rage, by Brittany Cooper
• Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene A. Carruthers
• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
• Learning to Be White: Money, Race and God in America, by Rev. Thandeka
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
• They Can’t Kill Us All, by Wesley Lower
• Many here Ibram X. Kendi Antiracist reading List

Mental Health Resources

• Therapy for Black Girls 
• Dear Black Women Project – therapy resources, daily affirmations, and more
• Black Men Heal – free therapy for Black men
• Men’s Resource Center of Philadelphia – individual, group counseling
• Where to find Virtual Therapy & Mental Health Resources in the Philly Area
• Black Philly therapists are raising $15K to provide free mental health resources to people of color – scroll to the bottom of the article for a list
• 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country

A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources

Book, movie recommendations, and more

By Katie Couric

JUNETEENTH RESOURCES

“What is Juneteenth?” by Derrick Bryson Taylor for the New York Times

“Juneteenth Is a Reminder That Freedom Wasn’t Just Handed Over,” by Brianna Holt for the New York Times

“No, Trump did not make Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating slavery’s end, ‘very famous,’” by DeNeen L. Brown for the Washington Post

Miss Juneteenth, a new movie about a former beauty queen and single mom preparing her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant in Texas

“Miss Juneteenth Exclusive with Nicole Beharie,” an interview with the star of Miss Juneteenth by Miles Marshall Lewis for Ebony

“Juneteenth by the Numbers,” by Toby Lyles for CNN

“The Johnsons Celebrate Juneteenth,” an episode of black-ish

“Juneteenth,” an episode of Atlanta

“Juneteenth Jamboree,” a PBS series about the holiday

“An American Spring of Reckoning,” by Jelani Cobb in the New Yorker

The 1619 Project in the New York Times

“9 Books To Celebrate The Spirit of Juneteenth,” by Keyaira Boone for Essence

“The Belated National Embrace of Juneteenth,” an episode of Slate’s “What Next?” podcast

Spotify is celebrating Juneteenth by highlighting Black artists

The 2020 Juneteenth Virtual Music Festival is presenting a full-day of programming

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WHAT TO READ

Articles:

• “The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
• “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
• “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN.
• The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• “You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, for the Washington Post
• “It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle
• “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
• “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
• “Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis in New York Times, T
• “I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak
• “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
• “I’m Black. My Mom is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About George Floyd’s Killing,” by Kimberly J. Miller for the Huffington Post
• A project from Harvard University about implicit bias
• “The Law Isn’t Neutral,” by Boston University School of Law dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig in Slate
• Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

Books:

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• Waking Up White by Debby Irving
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
• Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
• They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by
  Austin Channing Brown
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
• Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk
• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania Davis
• Black Food Geographies by Ashanté M. Reese
• Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gapby
  Mehrsa Baradaran
• Stamped From the Beginningby Ibram X. Kendi
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)
• Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond byMarc Lamont Hill
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
• Warriors Don’t CrybyMelba Pattillo Beals
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and Whiteby Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
• When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

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WHAT TO WATCH

• The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
• Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
• The 1965 debatebetween James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
• My hour on the history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’s America Inside Out
• Becoming,a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
• Let It Fall, a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
• When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
• 13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
• I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
• Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
• Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
• Fruitvale Station, a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
• American Son, a film with Kerry Washington about an estranged interracial couple waiting for their missing son
• The Central Park Five, a documentary from Ken Burns
• A Class Divided, a Frontline documentary

WHAT TO FOLLOW

• Rachel Cargle, a writer and lecturer who explores the intersection between race and womanhood
• Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How To Be An Antiracist and Director of the Antiracism Center
• Nikkolas Smith, the artist behind portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others
• Charlene Carruthers, founder of the