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Books
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Democracy in Black by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility by Robin J. Diangelo
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverley Daniel Tatum
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Burning House by Anders Walker
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
- The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
- White Awake by Daniel Hill
- Check Your Privilege by Myisha Hill
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery
Podcasts
- 1619, New York Times
- Code Switch, NPR
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- What a Day, Crooked Media
- Pod Save the People hosted by DeRay Mckesson, Crooked Media
- #TellBlackStories, Color of Change
- Momentum, Race Forward
- Black History for White People
- Hope & Hard Pills
- White Lies, NPR
- The Diversity Gap, Bethaney Wilkinson
- About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Mixed Company, Kai and Simeon
Movies + Documentaries
- Just Mercy (Amazon Prime)
- 13th (Netflix)
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- Selma (Amazon Prime)
- Fruitvale Station (tubi)
- Dear White People (TV show on Netflix)
- See You Yesterday (Netflix)
- American Son (Netflix)
- Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea. (Netflix)
- Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (HBO)
- I am Not Your Negro (Amazon Prime)
- The Help (Netflix)
- The Hate U Give (Hulu)
- Owned: A Tale Of Two Americas (Tubi)
- LA 92 (Netflix)
- Baltimore Rising (HBO)
- Whose Streets? (Hulu)
- True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (HBO)
- Teach Us All (Netflix)
- Strong Island (Netflix)
More Resources
- https://www.citylab.com/equity/
- https://www.joincampaignzero.org/ –Campaign Zero: a platform with policy strategies to end police brutality
- https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ –a project by Campaign Zero
- https://policescorecard.org/ –a project by Campaign Zero that specifically looks at California
- http://useofforceproject.org/ –a project by Campaign Zero that addresses their proposed policy solution #3
- https://www.checkthepolice.org/ –a project by Campaign Zero that addresses their proposed policy solution #10
- https://8cantwait.org/ –a project by Campaign Zero that outlines 8 policies that can be implemented to decrease police violence by 72%
- Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org
- Be the Bridge: https://bethebridge.com
- Black Lives Matter: /blacklivesmatter.com/
- Equality Labs: https://www.equalitylabs.org/
- Black Trans Advocacy Coalition: https://blacktrans.org/
- Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
- National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About Race: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
- NAACP: https://www.naacp.org/
- Data for Black Lives: http://d4bl.org/
- We Are Done Dying campaign: https://www.naacp.org/campaigns/we-are-done-dying/
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/
- Energy Justice Network (resources and helpful definitions for environmental justice and environmental racism): http://www.ejnet.org/ej/
- The Innocence Project: https://www.innocenceproject.org/
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: https://ellabakercenter.org/
- Kindred: https://kindredcommunities.org/
Black-Owned Bookstores
- Cafe con Libros
- Harriett’s Bookshop
- Frugal Bookshop
- The Lit. Bar
- Mahogany Books
- Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery
- Sister’s Uptown Bookstore
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