It’s never been more important to combat the damaging effects of racism. There are many ways for all of us to educate ourselves to ensure that we increase our awareness about structural racism and implicit biases.
Books:
White Fragility: Why White People Find it So Difficult to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in U.S. History and Life by David Billings
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me and The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear by William J. Barber II
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Films:
- “Brother Outsider” – The life of Bayard Rustin
- “13th” – an Oscar-nominated documentary by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick
Organizations:
- The Anti-Racist Alliance
- Southern Poverty Law Center: “Ten Ways to Fight Hate”
- Project Implicit – Test your own biases
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