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Articles on White Accountability

• 11 Things White People Can Do to Be Anti-Racist
• 97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne shutack | Medium 
• Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One by Stephanie Long | Refinery29 
• Getting Rid of the word "Caucasian" | Carol C. Mukhopadhyay
• How White Fragility Supports Racism and How Whites Can Stop It | Robin DiAngelo
• How You Can Be Ally to the Black Lives Matter Movement | Great Big Story 
• I, Racist: Why I Don't Talk to White People About Race | John Metta
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism | Fractured Atlas
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups by Craig Elliott PhD
• The Case for Capitalizing the B in Black | Corinne Shutack
• There's No Such Thing as a White Ally | Medium
• White Ally Toolkit | David Campt
• White Anti-racism: Living the Legacy | Tolerance.org
• White Dominant Culture & Something Different 
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Why the Audacity of White Feminism is the Core of White Supremacy | Ezine Ukoha
• Why We Need to Stop Saying 'People of Color' whe we mean 'Black People'
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They're Ok, They're not

Articles

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | Atlantic 
• Being Black and LGBTQ | Human Rights Campaign
• Black Americans still are victims of hate crimes more than any other group | The Center for Public Integrity
• COVID-19 in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups | CDC and Prevention
• Culturally Responsive Teaching: What's Culture Got to Do with it?
• Culturally Responsive Teaching: Climbing Out of the Gap
• Don't Say Nothing | Tolerance.org
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement | Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• Leading for Racial Equity Glossary | KIPP Foundation
• Learn about Black history and activism | *compilation of resources
• LGBT workers of color among the most disadvantaged in the U.S. Workforce | Movement Advancement Project
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag
• Talking About Race | National Museum of African American History and Culture
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox 
• What the World Could Teach America About Policing
• What to a Slave is the Fourth of July | Frederick Douglass
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic 
• Why is this happening? — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

Books

• 7 Books for building an anti-racist workplace
• From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Books: how to be actively antiracist
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Caught by Marie Gottschalk
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Learn about Black history and activism
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
• The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor
• 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
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matters Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Film & TV

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• BlackkKlansman -- HBO
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Prime video or available to rent
• Belle -- Prime video or available to rent
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• Do the Right Thing -- Spike Lee -- Prime video or available to rent
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Prime video or available to rent
• Get Out -- Prime video or 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) — Prime video or available to rent
• King In The Wilderness — HBO
• LA 92 (Documentary about ‘92 riots) -- Netflix
• Loving -- HBO
• Malcolm X (Spike Lee) -- Netflix
• Panther (Mario Van Peebles)
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — PBS or available to rent
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Podcast

• 1619 | 1619 Lesson Plans for Children | New York Times
• About Race
• Body Trauma | A Storytelling Podcast
• Code Switch | NPR
• Fare of the Free Child podcast
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw | The African American Policy Forum
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Nice White Parents Podcast
• Office Hours with Allen, Noguera, Howard and Harper
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People | Crooked Media
• Seeing White
• Side Effects of a White Woman | Amanda Seales
• Silence is Not an Option | Don Lemon
• Talking Race with Young Children
• Terrible, Thanks for Asking: Policing and Racial Trauma with Angela Davis
• The Michelle Obama Podcast
• The Witness Podcast Network | Pass the Mic
• Uncivil | Gimlet Media

• White Lies | NPR

• W.O.C. at Work

Videos

• 8M46S.com: sit quietly and reflect for the same length of time George Floyd fought for his life. (8:46)
• An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter | TedX Talk 
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• Black Lives Matter: Now We Transform
• Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism: Sesame Street hosts a town hall addressing racism.
• How Racial Bias Works and How to Disrupt it | Jennifer Eberhardt Ted Talk
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• How We Can Make Racism a Solvable Problem and Improve Policing | TedX Talk (12:13)
• Racism has a cost for everyone | TedX Talk (14:21)
• Teaching Tolerance Interviews with Robin D'Angelo
• The Path to Ending Racism in the US | TEDX Talk (1:06:23)
• The Urgency of Intersectionality | TedX Talk (18:49)

National Geographic for Kids: Black History Month

Ways to Center the Black LGBTQ Experience

Resources for Kindergarten - 8th Grade

Books for Parents 

Newborn to Age 2

• Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
• Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
• Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke
• Peekaboo Morning and Peekaboo Bedtime by Rachel Isadora
• De Colores by Patti Rodriguez

3 & up

• Sesame Street's We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Jane Kates
• Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renee Watson
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
• I am Enough by Grace Byers
• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Cole
• Chocolate Me by Taye Diggs
• Little Leaders Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

4 & up

• Let's Talk about Race by Julius Lester
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• Something Happened in our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard 
• Malcolm Little The Boy who Grew up to Become Malcome X by Ilyasah Shabazz 
• Schomburg The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
• When I was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton
• My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A Cabrera
• Crown an Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
• Let it Shine by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

Age 9-12 (4th-6th grade)

• We've got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March - by Cynthia Y. Levinson
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
• Fighting for Justice  - Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
• Young Water Protectors... A Story about Standing Rock by Aslan and Kelly Tudor

Teen & Young Adult

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• This is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew
• March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
• The Rock and The River by Kekla Magoon
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely 

Additional Book Lists

• Book list from Common Sense Media 
• Book list from Here we Read
• Books that can help you explain racism to your kids
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• 31 children's books to support conversations on race, racism, resistance, and activism to empower youth in the ongoing movement for racial justice.
• Book list from Los Angeles Public Library

Articles and Resources for Parents

Articles 

• Black Lives Matter Meditations
• LGBTQ+ People of Color Healing from Hatred | Psychology Today
• Racial Healing and Racial Equity | W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Self Care Tips for Black People Who are Struggling with this Very Painful Week
• Tips for Self-Care When Talking About Race

Women's History Month

Insist on Persistent Women: Women's History in the K-8 Classroom via Learning for Juctice

Black History Always

Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History via Learning for Juctice

National Poetry Month

Celebrate Maya Angelou via Learning for Justice

Deaf History Month

Access for All via Learning for Justice

General

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