Anti-Racism
Resources compiled by Julie Lythcott-Haims, August 2020
(updated January 2021)
For Authors, Editors, & Publishers
Talking to Kids about the News
For those of you who need resources here are a few:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/explaining-the-news-to-our-kids
Health
Mental health resources for the Black community
Kid Books
to teach race and acceptance to young children
Books
about the Black experience in America
Jennifer Eberhardt’s Biased (on implicit bias baked into the minds of all)
Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning (history of racist mindset)
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Anti-Racist (self-explanatory)
Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy (on the criminalization of Blackness)
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (on the rise of mass incarceration)
Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race (addressing common questions)
Julie Lythcott-Haims’s Real American: A Memoir (on growing up in white spaces)
Books
about race written by and for white people
Debby Irving’s Waking Up White
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility
Films
to learn more about 20th Century Black history
Glory (Black union soldiers in the Civil War)
Red Tails (Black pilots in WW2)
Hidden Figures (Black women who worked for Nasa)
Anything by Ava DuVernay, including Selma (Civil Rights Movement), 13th (Link between end of slavery and rise of mass incarceration; When They See Us (The falsely accused and exonerated ‘Central Park Five’)
Films
that do not relegate POC to a caricature
Black Panther
Crazy Rich Asians
News
from a Black perspective
The Root https://www.theroot.com/
Blavity https://blavity.com/
Podcasts
that share a Black perspective
Code Switch https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
Engage
in social justice activism
Color of Change https://colorofchange.org/