RESOURCES
BOOKS FOR ADULTS
How to Be An Anti-Racist By Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want To Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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 Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
CHILDREN’S BOOKS THAT EDUCATE
This Book is Anti Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (TWEEN & Teen)
Racism and Intolerance (Children in Our World Series) (6-8 years old)
Let’s Talk About Race (4-8 years old)
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Teen & Young Adult)
All American Boys (Teen & Young Adult)
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Teen & Young Adult)
Anti Racist Baby (2-3 years old)
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (8-12 years old)
PARENTING RESOURCES ABOUT RACE
How to Talk to Your Kids About Anti-Racism: A List of Resources PBS.org
Life Kit Podcast – How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race (June 4, 2020)
Life Kit: Parenting Podcast – Talking Race With Young Children (Feb 25, 2019)
A White Families’ Guide for Talking about Racism
How to Talk to Honestly With Young Children About Race PBS.org
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America book by Jennifer Harvey
How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids Common Sense Media
13 Children’s Books on Race and Diversity PBS.org
The Conscious Kid website dedicated to equity and promoting positive racial identity development in youth
Nick News Presents: Kids, Race, and Unity 44 minute video special
CNN/Sesame Street racism town hall 3 part video special
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right by Lisa Sharon Harper
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Dr. Esau McCaulley
Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice by Dr. Eric Mason
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
“Justice Too Long Delayed” Christianity Today 6/12/2020
“Letter From a Quarantined Home: Expressing Disappointment with Some of My White Brothers and Sisters in Christ” Christianity Today 5/30/2020
“Race, Gospel, and Justice: An Interview with Esau McCaulley, Part 1” Christianity Today 6/1/2020
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Be The Bridge Facebook Learning Group
PODCASTS
Pod Save The People (Crooked Media)
1619 (New York Times)
Code Switch (NPR)
MOVIES/TV
13th (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro (Amazon Prime)
Moonlight (Netflix)
Do The Right Thing
The Hate U Give
When They See Us (Netflix)
Just Mercy
Dear White People (Netflix)
SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWS
Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram (and follow any of the authors or content creators listed above)
Brittany Packnett Cunningham @MsPackyetti
The Conscious Kid @consciouskidlib
Bree Newsome Bass @BreeNewsome
Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org
Marie Beecham @wastefreemarie
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle @rachel.cargle
Bernice King @berniceking
Danielle Coke @ohhappydani
Dr. Yusef Salaam @dr_yusefsalaam
Equality Labs @equalitylabs
No White Saviors @nowhitesaviors
ARTICLES
“White people, here's how we can try to be better allies and proactively anti-racist”
“How to Be An Ally If You Are a Person with Privilege”
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
TEEN BOYS & WHITE NATIONALISM
“Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons: Parents need to understand how white supremacists prey on teen boys, so they can intervene.” NY Times 10/12/19
“Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up.’ How white supremacists are recruiting boys online” Washington Post 9/17/19
“What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right” Washingtonian 5/55/19
“A new guide for schools to stop white supremacists from recruiting kids to their cause” Washington Post 3/15/19