WAYS TO HELP
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ (includes petitions and places to donate to)
BOOKS (all links are Amazon for consistency – this is not an endorsement and these are not affiliate links)
Brutal Imagination: Poems by Cornelius Eady
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Biased by Jennifer Eberhart
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Brian Stevenson
The Black and The Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Higginbotham
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life by Elizabeth White
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X., Alex Haley, and Attallah Shabazz
The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph
The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi with illustrations by Ashley Lukashevsky
Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne with illustrations by Theodore Taylor III
The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas with illustrations by Lesley Harker
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
Race Relations: The Struggle for Equality in America (Inquire & Investigate) by Barbara Diggs with illustrations by Richard Chapman
One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
Reading for Action by Ashley Boyd
Wake, Rise, Resist: The Progressive Teen’s Guide to Fighting Tyrants and A*holes by Joanna Spathis and Kerri Kennedy
1968: Today’s Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change edited by Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The 400 Year Head Start: Yet Still Destined for Glory by Nikki Ace
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
SLAY by Brittney Morris
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Piecing Me Together by Reneé Watson
PODCASTS
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
MOVIES, TV & DOCUMENTARIES (not linked because of location and viewing rights)
Dear White People
When They See Us
Selma
The Hate U Give
See You Yesterday
Just Mercy
Blackkklansman
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
King in the Wilderness
I Am Not Your Negro
Get Out
Black Power Mixtape
13th
Sorry to Bother You
If Beale Street Could Talk
Fruitvale Station
Becoming
Let It Fall
America Inside Out
Hidden Figures
Remember the Titans
Clemency
American Son
THIS LIST IS NOT COMPLETE OR DEFINITIVE BY ANY MEANS.
If there are other resources you believe should be on this list, please get in touch.
