Resources
Anti-Racism EducationAnti-racism content that empowers our clients to expand
individual and organizational learning on systemic racism.
Understanding Current Topics: Criminal Justice, Systemic Racism, Protests
Police Shootings Database 2015-2020 | Washington Post
Black Americans 2.5x More Likely Than Whites to be Killed by Police | Statista (June 2, 2020)
Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee by Eric Reid | New York Times (September 25, 2017)
Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Los Angeles Times (May 30, 2020)
How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting than Black Lives by Rachel Miller | Vice (June 3, 2020)
What Do Terms Like Systemic Racism, Microaggression and White Fragility Mean? | ABC News (June 14, 2020)
Being an Ally/Co-Conspirator
How to Be A Good White Ally, According to Activists by Emily Stewart | Vox (June 2, 2020)
Independent YouTube Videos/Interviews/TedX Talks
There is No Neutral: Nice White People Can Still Be Complicit in a Racist Society | Ari Shapiro Interviews Robin D’Angelo (June 9, 2020)
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man | Emmanual Acho (June 3, 2020)
What I Am Learning From My White Grandchildren—Truths About Race | Anthony Peterson | TedX Antioch (Nov 4, 2014)
Books to Understand Race and Racism (Non-Fiction)
Talking About Racism
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad (2020)
Study Guide: Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad (2020)
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership | Ed Gordan (2020)
How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeuma Oleo (2019)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide | Crystal Marie Flemming (2018)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi (2017)
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race | Jesmyn Ward (2017)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson (2017)
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2009)
Legal
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America | by Ira Katznelson (2006
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein (2018)
Bias
Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives | by Howard Ross
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do | Jennifer L. by Eberhardt (2019)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) | by Claude M. Steele (2011)
Biological Myth of Racial Differences
Race: Are We So Different? | Alan H. Goodman, Yolanda T. Moses, Joseph L. Jones (2012)
The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America | Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (2004)
Race in American History
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland | Jonathan M. Metzl (2019)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism | Jemar Tisby (2019)
Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning | Richard T. Hughes (2018)
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America | Jim Wallis (2017)
Between the World and Me | by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Books to Understand Race and Racism (Fiction)
Dear Justyce | Nic Stone (2020)
A Burning: A Novel | Megha Majumdar (2020)
Dear Martin | Nic Stone (2017)
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison (1970)
Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins | Mark Twain (1894)
Podcast Series
Nice White Parents | New York Times
Pod Save the People | Crooked Media
Seeing White | Scene on Radio
1619 | New York Times
Code Switch | NPR
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
“Dismantling White Fragility” from The Goop Podcast (Stitcher / Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
“Let’s Talk about Whiteness” from On Being with Krista Tippett (On Being / Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher)
“Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest” from NPR’s Code Switch (NPR / Stitcher / Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
“Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment” Season 2, Episode 3 of Revisionist History (Stitcher / Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
Films/Television/Documentaries
Just Mercy (2020)
When They See Us (2019)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
The Hate U Give (2018)
Dear White People (2017-current)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
13th (2016)
Selma (2015)
Crash (2004)
Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003) *For streaming options, contact people3
Articles
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh (1989)
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
“6 Things White People Say That Highlight Their Privilege” by Kelsey Borreson | HuffPost Life (June 10, 2020)
*Note: This list is updated regularly and continues to be curated. If you have suggestions for accessible resources that help others understand this topic, email us.
Last update: June 28, 2020