anti-racism resources

It’s imperative that anti-racist activists arm themselves with knowledge. This page is for anyone—particularly white people—who wants to begin or deepen their anti-racism work.

Articles

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox

• “The White Space” by Elijah Anderson 

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

Videos

• How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time, tedTalk by Baratunde Thurston

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives, Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

Books

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
  by Grace Lee Boggs

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

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

Films and TV series

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

• King In The Wilderness  — HBO

• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

More resources

• Brave Sis Project: Lifestyle & Learning for BIPOC Women & Their Friends

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

• What is Critical Race Theory (CRT)?

To help white parents raise anti-racist children

• Check out these books for children and young adults from the list of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

• Listen to the Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Read PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

Organizations to follow on social media

• Antiracism Center: Twitter

• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook