Racial Equity Resources

• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
• Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
• Mixed A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
• A is for activists by Innosanto Nagara
• Anti racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
• The Power Book: What is it, Who has it, and Why? By Claire Saunders, Hazel Songhurst, George Amson-Bradshaw, Minna Salami, and Milk Scarlet
• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson
• You Matter by Christian Robinson
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barrier, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
• Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
• Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-ins by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
• Buddy Mason Speaks Up by Arisa White, and Laura Atkins
• Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Myers
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
• Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
• Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
• Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner
• A Kid’s Guide to Latino History by Valerie Petrillo

Indigenous Students Guide To College by Study.com | READ

Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions by Robin DiAngelo | READ

What Anti-Racist Teachers Do Differently Pirette McKamey, The Atlantic | READ

How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America by Gillian B. White | READ

The US is Still Not Ready to Look at the Ugly Racism Against Native Americans by Julian Brave Noisecat  by The Guardian | READ

Invisibility is the Modern Form of Racism Against Native Americans: I’ve Never Seen Native People in Media at All by Rebecca Nagle | READ

Native Americans and the Federal Government by Andrew Boxer in History Review | READ

1619 Project New York Times Magazine | READ

The New York Times Magazine Reading Guide for The 1619 Project Essays by the Pulitzer Center | READ

The era of Christopher Columbus is over by James Aloisi | READ

The Trans History You Weren’t Taught in Schools by Catherine Armstrong | READ

• The United States of Anxiety
• Code Switch
• Other: Mixed Race in America
• The Nod
• Pod Save the People
• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt
• Fare of the Free Child podcast
• Integrated Schools podcast episode ‘Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey’
• About Race
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

Do the Right Thing (1989) | On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Malcolm X (1992) | Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

Crooklyn (1994) | Spike Lee’s vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.

4 Little Girls (1997) | A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

When the Levees Broke (2006) | An examination of the U.S. government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

BlacKkKlansman (2018) | African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Gook (2017) | 2 Korean American brothers run a shoe store in LA county. Their friend, black 11 y.o. Kamilla, drops in and helps. This day, the Rodney King verdict ignites the 1992 LA riots.

La Operacion (1982) | Documentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950’s & 1960’s by the USA.

Colonization is Extinction (2019) | Colonization is Extinction a documentary about Puerto Rico and the economic crisis.

The Last Colony (2015) | A close look at Puerto Rico’s unique relationship with the United States.

Millie and the Lords (2015) | Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young, working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto Rican history.

Detroit (2017) | Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) | An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Fruitvale Station (2013) | The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008

Free Meek (2019) | A true-crime docuseries about American rapper Meek Mill’s ongoing battle with the U.S. justice system following a disputed conviction in 2007.

The Last Defense (2018) (visit justiceforjuliusjones.com to watch) | Emotional, in-depth examinations of death row cases expose flaws in the US justice system. Season 1 investigates a housewife convicted for stabbing her sons, and an athlete convicted for shooting a father, as attorneys race for new trials.

Clemency (2019) | Years of carrying out death row executions are taking a toll on Warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares for another one, Williams must confront the psychological and emotional demons that her job creates.

Queen and Slim (2019) | A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.

 Black Panthers  (2015) | This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years.

 The Black Power Mixtape  (2011) |  Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) | Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson’s family, friends and fellow activists.

Netflix:

13th (2016) |  Ava DuVernray Explores the racial inequality in the USA prisons filled disproportionally with Black Americans

When They See Us (2019)  | Ava DuVernray Looks at the racially charged case of the Central Park Five.

Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017) | The USA criminal justice system tragically failed 16 year old Kalief Browder

Dear White People (2015) |  Justin Simien, Campus culture war between blacks & whites at a predominantly white school.

LA 92 (2017) | The tumultuous time after the acquittal of 4 white police officers brutally beating a black motorist.

  Why Rioting Makes Sense | WATCH

Coming to Term with Racism’s Inertia  | WATCH

Telling stories: Allegories of race and racism is foundational | WATCH

Cliff of Good Health analogy | WATCH

A Conversation with Native Americans on Race/ Op-Docs  | WATCH

American Indian Activist Russell Means Testifies at Senate Hearings  | WATCH

Time To Correct The History Books: Elder Russell Means “Columbus Must Die” Speech | WATCH