Promoting racial unity and equity

Promoting Racial Unity and Equity and Fighting Racial Prejudice, Discrimination, and Violence

Some suggested resources

Compilations

An Antiracist Reading List (NYTimes) 

 If You Want to Learn About Anti-Racism, These 10 Books Are a Start (Esquire)

10 books about Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You

A compilation of resources for white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now.

Anti-Racism Resources

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Collection of poems from LitHub

Let the World Be a Black Poem: Poetry at a Time of Protest 

Books

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

So You Want to Talk About Race – Oluo, Ijeoma

How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi

Police Brutality: An Anthology – Jill Nelson

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States – Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-la itn Price, Foreword by Alicia Garza (currently a free ebook from Haymarket Books)

They can’t kill us all – Wesley Lowery

Between the World and Me – Ta’Nehisi Coates

What truth sounds like…our unfinished conversation about race in America – Michael Eric Dyson

When they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter memoir – Patriss Kahn-Cullors and Asha Bandele

Twelve million Black Voices – Richard Wright

The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America – Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness – Michelle Alexander

The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin

Superior: The Return of Race Science – Angela Saini

Racism: A very short introduction – Ali Rattansi

Articles

The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic

The 1619 Project – New York Times

Poems

• By Hanif Abdurraqib:
  • “I Don’t Remember the Whole Summer When “Do The Right Thing” Dropped”
  • “my wife says it’s a good thing humans don’t hold fear”
  • “I Don’t Know Any Longer Why the Flags Are At Half-Staff”
  • “In Defense of ‘Moist’”
• “Let America Be America Again” – Langston Hughes
• “won’t you celebrate with me” – Lucille Clifton
• “A Small Needful Fact” – Ross Gay
• Citizen – Claudia Rankine
• Can’t unsee – Evie Shockley

Podcasts/TED talks

Let’s get to the root of racial injustice (TED Talk) – Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington

A decade of watching black people die (NPR/Code Switch)

Health disparities by race (The Ezra Klein Show)