If you have 5-15 minutes, watch this:
- The President Sang Amazing Grace: Kronos Quartet and Meklit
- CBS News Analysis: 50 states, 50 different ways of teaching America’s past, Ibram X. Kendi reviews current history curriculum production and use across the U.S.
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Didn’t It Rain?” Live 1964 (Reelin’ In The Years Archive). She influenced Elvis Presley.
If you have 15-30 minutes, take a look at these:
- Racism in the Jewish Community: The Uncomfortable Truth
- A Beautiful Resistance, Jenee Osterheldt
- Whitewashing the Great Depression, Sara Boxer, December 2020,
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation, Richard Frishman, November 30, 2020
- Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than Us? David Berreby, November 22, 2020,
If you have 30-60 minutes you could listen to:
- Code Switch, NPR, Conversations about Race, podcasts
- The Nocturnist, Black Voices in Health Care, podcasts, July 28, 2020, Episodes through September 8, 2020
OTHER RESOURCES:
Movies
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix, Documentary about the link between mass incarceration and slavery
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — YouTube/Google Play, Apple, Amazon Prime
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) – Prime Video | Kanopy |
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Get Out
- The Hate You Give, Based on the YA book by Angie Thomas (See trailer)
- Moonlight (See trailer)
Books
- How to Be an Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
- A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley
- One Person, No Vote, Carol Anderson, History of Voter Suppression and the Fight for Voting Rights
- Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, History of the Great Migration
- Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
- Sing Unburied, Sing, Jessmyn Ward
- The Fire This Time, Jessmyn Ward
- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nahesi Coates
- Color of Love, Mara Gad
- There There, Tommy Orange
- Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- American Prison, Shane Bauer
- Girl Woman Other, Bernadine Evaristo
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
- Deacon King Kong, James McBride
- Let’s Talk Race: A Guide for White People, Fern L Johnson and Marlene Gail Fine
Websites to explore
- The Brennan Center for Justice, Voting rights organization- extensive information on voter suppression and policy initiatives
- Equal Justice Initiative, Extensive resources on history, current issues (criminal justice)
- Freedom Riders, Based on Ray Arsenault’s book , Freedom Riders
- 21 Day Challenge
Have an idea for a racial justice resource to add to our list? Please email .