How do we go about teaching our children (and ourselves!) about this complicated topic? Look through the resources below to find what will best help you and your family.
Resources for Parents:
ARTICLES:
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?
Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk About Race (article with suggestions for children’s books)
Addressing Racial Injustice with Young Children
Resources for Accountability and Action for Black Lives (resource for taking action, updated daily)
The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law – the history of segregation and how a Chinese immigrant family initiated the fight against it in Jim Crow south, from The New Yorker
The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S. – PBS News Hour
FILMS:
Just Mercy (justmercy.com)
13th (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu)
Kind in the Wilderness (HBO)
See You Yesterday (Netflix)
The Hate You Give (Cinemax)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Roots (Hulu)
OTHER:
Frugal Bookstore – the only black-owned bookstore in Boston. They take online orders.
Anna Stamborski, M. Div Candidate (2022), Nikki Zimmermann, M. Div candidate (2021), and Bailie Gregory, M. Div, M.S. Ed. created this wonderful, comprehesive Google doc of resources.
The Danger Of a Single Story, TED Talk by writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
PODCASTS:
20 Minute NPR podcast-Talking Race with Young Children
1619 by NY Times
About Rac
Code Switch by NPR
Intersectionality Matters! by Kim Crenshaw
Momentum: A Rae Forward Podcast
Pod For the Cause (Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Seeing White
Parenting Forward Podcast – Episode 5: ‘Five Pandemic Parent Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt
Fare of the Free Child
BOOKS:
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Any book by Jesmyn Ward
Books for Children:
These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids (link to NY Times article which requires logging in)
31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Organizations to follow on social media:
Antiracism Center: Twitter
Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook