Discovering Justice’s Education Director Laura Brenner compiled this list of resources to support learning and facilitate conversations around race and racism in America.

Books For Students

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
• A Children’s Booklist for Anti-racist Activism
• Race Cars: A children’s book about white privilege, Jenny Devenny
• BLM Instructional Library (online read alouds)
• If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
• NYTimes Anti-Racism Booklist for kids 0-12+

Books by Black authors to for Adults:

General:

• • The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America, Marc Lamont Hill
  • How to be an Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
  • Nobody: Casualties of American’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, Marc Lamont Hill
  • The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
  • The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

• Between The World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi  The Beginning

• Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds *a YA remix (other Jason Reynold’s YA books here)

• This Book is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell *a YA book

• See more books here at “This Book List in Anti-Racist”

Specifically for Educators:

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Zaretta Hamond
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, Bettina L. Love
• Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
• Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Lisa Delpit
• Schooling for Critical Consciousness, Daren Graves & Scott Seider
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom,  Bell Hooks

*Please consider purchasing these titles and others from Frugal Bookstore, a Black-owned community bookstore in Boston that DJ tries to support whenever possible.

Articles

• Tens Steps to Non-Optical Allyship
• 11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘ This Has To Stop’ In The Wake of Police Brutality
• Fredrck Douglass Used Photographs To Force The Nation To Begin Addressing Racism
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Video

• Talks to help you understand racism in America
• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”
• Raising Antiracist Kids: Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers
• “The Danger of a Single Story”

Specifically for Educators:

• Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools
• Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

Podcasts

• RadioLab Presents: More Perfect, (WNYC Studios)
• 1619 (The New York Times)

Netflix Series

• 13th
• When They See Us
• The Racial Wealth Gap, Explained
• The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Teach Us All

Amazon Prime

• I Am Not Your Negro 

HBO

• The Loving Story

Social Media Accounts:

• The Conscious Kid
• ACLU
• Grassroots Law Project
• The King Center
• Ibram X. Kendi
• Austin Channing
• Jumaane Williams
• Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu’s IG or  twitter
• Rachel Cargie