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Books, Movies, Articles, Podcasts, and More

Books

  • How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
  • So You Want To Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
  • The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
  • Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Me And White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward
  • Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde
  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton
  • A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind, by Harriet A. Washington
  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
  • They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement, by Wesley Lowery
  • Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
  • The Color Of Law, by Richard Rothstein
  • Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America, by Jennifer Harvey

Movies

  • White Like Me, Scott Morris, 2013, 69 minutes
  • The Central Park Five, Ken Burns, 2012, 119 minutes
  • Whose Streets?, Sabaah Folayan, 2017, 102 minutes
  • The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr, 2018, 133 minutes
  • 1965 Debate Between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, 58 minutes
  • Skin Deep, Frances Reid, 1995, 53 minutes
  • 13th, Ava DuVernay, 2016, 100 minutes
  • I Am Not Your Negro, 2017, 93 minutes
  • Just Mercy, 2019, 137 minutes

Articles

  • “Message to White Allies from a Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing it Wrong”
  • “Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay—Chances Are, They’re Not”

Curricula & Syllabi

  • “Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus”
  • Talking About Race (hosted by The National Museum of African American History & Culture)

TED Talks & more

  • “The difference between being ‘not racist’ and antiracist”—Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi defines antiracism, and advocates for actively rejecting prejudice in our public policies and institutions.
  • “Talks to Help You Understand Racism in America”—A curated list of TED Talks including an interview with the founders of #BlackLivesMatter
  • The 1619 Project—Multimedia published by The New York Times
  • Intersectionality Matters!—Podcast by the African American Policy Forum with host Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Code Switch—Podcast by National Public Radio (NPR) about racism in America

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