Anti-Bias Resources

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

How Kids Learn About Race

Resources for Accountability and Action for Black Lives (resource for taking action, updated daily)

Teaching about Race

Children Are Not Colorblind

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:

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