Resources
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READING
Children - 2y+
• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
• Sulwe by Nyong’o LupitaChildren - 4y+
• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers
• I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
• I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
• Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
• M Is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child by Tiffany Rose
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
• The Proudest Color by Sheila Modir and Jeffrey Kashou
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Children - 10y+
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker-Rhodes
• Track Series: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu by Jason Reynolds
• Woke : A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia GatwoodChildren - 13y+
• Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation edited by Maureen Johnson
• March : Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
• Say Her Name by Zetta ElliottAdult Non-Fiction
• Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
• From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtt Taylor
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Wayward Loves, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
• White Fragility : Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• The Yellow House by Sara BroomPoetry
• Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
• Imperial Liquor: Poems by Amaud Johnson -
ARTICLES
• 5 Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts by Katie Anthony
•15 Books About Racial Justice for Kids by Rachel Werner
• The Dehumanizing Condescension of ‘White Fragility’ by John McWhorter
• The Emotional Impact of Watching White People Wake Up to Racism in Real-Time by Natalie Morris
• Fear of a Black President by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How America Fractured Into Four Parts by George Packer
• How Kids Can Be Allies by Nickelodeon Staff
• How to Respond to Racial Microaggressions When They Occur by cmaadmin
• How to Talk to Your Children About Protests and Racism by Sandee LaMotte
• Ta-Nehisi Coates Has an Incredibly Clear Explanation for Why White People Shouldn’t Use the N-Word by German Lopez
• Transformative Justice, Explained by Kim Tran
• What is the Place for African Americans in the ‘New’ Madison? by Blacks for Political and Social Action of Dane County
• What Teachers Need to Know About Restorative Justice by WeAreTeachers Staff
MORE READING
An Activity Book for African American Families: Helping Children Cope with Crisis
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources by Katie Couric
From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: the Life-Long Journey by Tema Okun
How to Talk to Your Kids About Anti-Racism: A List of Resources from PBS SoCal
Madison People’s Budget 2021 Presented by Freedom, Inc.
What White People Need to Hear from Other White People to Act and Bring an End to Racial Injustice
The Most Important Milestones in Black History You Need to Know About
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DOWNLOADS
Checklist for White Allies Against Racism
Community Anti-Racism Worksheets
DOCUMENTARIES & VIDEOS
4 Little Girls
13th
Dark Girls
I Am Not Your Negro
When the Levees Broke
How Can We Win? with Kimberly Latrice Jones
A Kid’s Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Mama Did You Hear the News? by Sanya Whittaker
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Imagining a New America with Krista Tippett