Racial Justice
Angel Zimmerman, Wyatt Carter, Kegan Zimmerman
Some thank you letters written by 4th graders at a Kansas school to Deborah Dawkins (writer of Martin, A Boy with a Dream That Changed The World) after having the book read to their class
Thank you to all that have passed their lists to us. This is not an exhaustive list nor is it completely vetted. It is an aggregate from our member organizations and numerous individuals and sources. We are encouraged by the many statements, discussion groups, book clubs, webinars that our member organizations have posted and are sharing with others. We hope our member organizations find this list helpful. Please feel free to pass this information to anyone.
Mental Health
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Black Mental Health Matters Resource
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
SAMHSA: Helpline: 800-662-HELP (4357) –FindTreatment.gov
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255)
Veterans Crisis Line: Call 800-273-8255; Text 838255
Homeless Veterans: 877-4AID-VET
Substance Abuse Helpline: 800-662-HELP
Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
GLBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564
Anti-Violence Programs: 212-714-1141
Donations & Petitions
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People’s City Council Freedom Fund
I Run With Maud // Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Fundraiser
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Activities
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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntonsh)
This Talk Isn’t Cheap: Guided Conversations Project Moves Forward
Podcasts
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NPR episode about Whistling Vivaldi
Side Effects of White Women Podcast Episode with Amanda Seales
Smartest Person in the Room’s episode on Well Meaning White People
NPR's Code Switch
A Decade on Watching Black People Die
Still Processing episode on Kaepernick
At the Square: Both Sides #11: Sophic Solution's Cofounders on Systemic Racism on Apple Podcasts
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast
Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
Fare of the Free Child podcast
Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Reflections on Kansas City’s Weekend of Protests Against Police Violence
NPR: To Be in a Rage Almost All of the Time
NPR: The Trauma of Being Black in America
The Appeal, a podcast on criminal justice reform hosted by Adam Johnson
Justice In America, a podcast by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith on criminal justice reform
Brené Brown with Ibram X. Kendi, a podcast episode on antiracism
Come Through, a WNYC podcast with Rebecca Carroll
Scene on Radio - Seeing White Series
On Point Radio - Oklahoma To Incorporate 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Into Statewide School Curriculum
TED Radio Hour - Mary Bassett: How Does Racism Affect Your Health?
Here & Now - Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power?
NPR Morning Edition - You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration
BBC Radio 5 live - The Sista Collective
Bioneers: Revolution from the heart of nature
Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment
Talking Race With Young Children
First Name Basis
Nice White Parents
The Next Question
The Atlantic’s Floodlines
WaPo’s Other: Mixed Race in America
American Public Media’s Historically Black
American Public Media’s 9066
PBS’s Say It Loud
Lynching in America
BBC World’s Witness Black History
Hear to Slay
Unlocking Us
Amicus
Systemic Racism Explained
The Look
PBS’s History of White People in America
Videos
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Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins with Police
Interview about I’m Still Here
White Fragility - short video summarizing the book by Robin DiAngelo
The Unequal Race for Good Jobs
Our Separate and Unequal Public Colleges
White Flight in America’s Colleges
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
Its Not About You. It’s About Us.
How to overcome Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them.
The Iroquois Influence on the Constitution
Confronting ‘intergroup anxiety’: Can you try too hard to be fair?
CBS News Analysis: 50 states, 50 different ways of teaching America's past
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
New York Times Op-Docs on Race
Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story
What Would You Do: Bicycle Thief Episode?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race
What Being Hispanic and Latinx Means in the United States
Indigenous People React to Indigenous Representation in Film And TV
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
The urgency of intersectionality
What Defunding the Police Really Means
Neil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
4 Black Lives Matter Myths Debunked | Decoded | MTV News
Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment Children Session - Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott's "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" Anti-Racism Exercise | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN
Understanding and supporting others with workplace trauma | Jimi Okubanjo | TEDxMCPHS Salon
Derald Wing Sue - Microaggressions in Everyday Life
How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful
Dismantling Microaggressions Through the Power of Connection | Toya Webb | TEDxRushU
We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it? | Dushaw Hockett | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon
Why Are White People So Bad at Talking About Race?
Bloomberg and The Legacy of Stop-and-Frisk

Articles
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Walking While Black (Garnette Cadogan)
Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle’s When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels
Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case for Reparations
Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important (Kimberley Lawson)
103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
Crimes Against African Americans
The 1619 Project. Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times.
Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites. Robin DiAngelo, 2016.
A Critique of "Our Constitution Is Color-Blind.” Neil Gotanda, 1991.
The Case for Reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Civil Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2017
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist
Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist
Politics. Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989.
Killing Us Softly: Navigating State and State-Sanctioned Violence Against
Black Men’s Humanity. Charles H.F. Davis III, Keon A. McGuire
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black
Feminist Thought. Patricia Hill Collins, 1986.
On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism. Varun Chaudhry, 2020
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Angela P. Harris, 1990.
Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize
Racist Institutional Norms. Shaun Harper, 2012.
Racism Defined. Dismantling Racism.
The Subtle Linguistics of White Supremacy. Yawo Brown, 2015.
Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed. Ijeoma Oluo, 2017.
White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement. Robin Diangelo, 2015.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Peggy McIntosh, 1989.
Whiteness as Property. Cheryl Harris, 1993.
Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?, Derrick A. Bell, 1995.
Who Gets To Be Afraid in America? Ibram X. Kendi
What White People Can do for Racial Justice
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Survey Report
The Top 10 Geographic Markets Where Women and Minorities Succeed in Making Partner
4 Ways Law Firms Can ‘Lean In’
Paulette Brown brings passion for inclusion as the first woman of color to lead the ABA
Diversity Matters: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Legal Education
A Continuous Body: Ongoing Conversations About Women and Legal Education
Diversity Matters: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Legal Education
A Kinder, Gentler Law School? Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Legal Education at King Hall
Mentoring Across Differences: A Guide to Cross-Gender and Cross-Race Mentoring
Setting the Record Straight: Maryland’s First Black Women Law Graduates
The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
Women of the Courts Symposium: Remarks
Transcription: Black and Female in Law
Creating Pathways to Success for All: Advancing and Retaining Women of Color in Today’s Law Firms
Leaving the Law: Occupational and Career Mobility of Law School Graduates
Employment Comparisons and Trends for Men and Women, Minorities and Non-minorities
Lawyers and Their Discontents: Findings from a Survey of the Chicago Bar
Contextualizing the Different Voice: Women, Occupational Goals, and Legal Education
Perspectives on Professional Women
Not All Lawyers are Equal: Difficulties that Plague Women Lawyers and Women of Color
Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It
Supply, Demand, And The Changing Economics Of Large Law Firms
Legal Profession Needs to Evaluate and Overhaul Itself to Retain Women
White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack
21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis
10 Myths White People Believe about Racism
How you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
“This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN.
“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
“Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis in New York Times, T
“I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak
A project from Harvard University about implicit bias
“The Law Isn’t Neutral,” by Boston University School of Law dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig in Slate
Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
What We Want: Black Life Affirmed
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
The Injustice of This Moment Is not an ‘Aberration
Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
White mom to racists: ‘Don’t use my child to further your hate-filled ignorance
From Alt-Right to Groyper, White Nationalists Rebrand For 2020 And Beyond
People of colour have to ‘code-switch’ to fit in with white norms
Bias isn't Just Police Problem, It’s a Preschool Problem
Black Lives Matter Activists Want to End Police Violence. But They Disagree on How to Do It
New Breonna Taylor Law Will Ban No-Knock Warrants in Louisville, Ky.
Colorado reform law ends immunity for police in civil misconduct cases
Special Report: For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
Defund the police? Here’s what that really means.
What Now: Killer Mike Advocates Investing With Black Owned Banks
Netflix will move $100 million into Black-owned banks
How Prison Labor is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support it
Whole Foods Says It Will Stop Selling Foods Made With Prison Labor
'Wow, I'm racist': In time of viral encounters, 'white spaces' are used to confront biases
Six times victims have received reparations — including four in the US
Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard
Who’s in Solitary Confinement?
Solitary confinement should be banned in most cases, UN expert says
What Can We Learn from States That Ban Affirmative Action?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Black People “Loot” Food … White People “Find” Food.
When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims
Photos reveal media’s softer tone on opioid crisis
Black Women Kept Roy Moore Out of Office. Here’s How to Actually Thank Them.
Here Are The Cities That Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day Instead of Columbus Day
The end of the for-profit prison era?
Corporations Divest Nearly $60 Million From Private Prison Industry
On Kara Springer’s A Small Matter of Engineering
How Schools Are ‘Spirit Murdering’ Black and Brown Students
States and cities are banning hair discrimination. Here’s how that’s affecting schools.
Election 2016: Restrictive Voting Laws by the Numbers
Buffalo Cop Loses Job And Pension After She Intervenes With Fellow Officer Choking A Suspect
Philadelphia Police Union President Calls Black Lives Matter Protestors 'Rabid Animals'
40 Famous Black and African American Women Who Are Leaving Their Mark on History
Personal Finance Columnist Michelle Singletary Examines Race, Wealth Gap For Black Americans
Learning How To Code-Switch: Humbling, But Necessary
Being Black—but Not Too Black—in the Workplace
Op-Ed: How the media smears black victims
When a police shooting victim is a white woman
The conversation we need on police shootings
Diverse Companies Out-Deliver on the Bottom Line
It’s Been a Long Time Coming, But I Know a Change Gon’ Come
Diverse and Inclusive Teams: They Simply Work Better Together
Diverse Trial Teams: A Competitive Advantage
Rethinking Diversity in Legal Teams
To White Parents Who Want to Be Allies at This Time
How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour
About the Weary Weaponizing of White Women Tears
Another Day, Another Hashtag. White People, You Gotta Get to Work NOW
The Stages of What Happens When There’s Injustice Against Black People
'It Could Have Been Me': Black Attorneys Reflect on George Floyd's Death and What Comes Next
Black Lawyers Matter: Dismantling Systemic Inequality
Minneapolis Has A Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity. Now It Has To Follow Through
When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart
Race determines home values more today than it did in 1980
Past Housing Discrimination Contributed To Wealth Gap Between Blacks And Whites In Kansas City
America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated
75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
How White Managers Can Respond to Anti-Black Violence
Toward a Racially Just Workplace
Why Women and People of Color in Law Still Hear “You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer”
Walk in My Shoes: A Day in the Life of a Black Woman Attorney
Reflections From a Token Black Friend
How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of Black Employees
“We Were Married on the Second Day of June, and the Police Came After Us the 14th of July.”
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
How to Film the Police in the U.S.
Blogs
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Education, Race, and Jobs in the COVID-19 Crisis
Who’s Working From Home: The Education Divide
Our Higher Education System Is Split into Unequal Tracks Divided by Race
Reports
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SAT-Only Admission: How Would It Change College Campuses?
Women of Color: A Study of Law School Experiences
U.S. Prisons and Racial Profiling: A Covertly Racist Nation Rides a Vicious Cycle
On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations
Op-Eds
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Education Week: ‘Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart’: Education Must Answer for Systemic Inequality
Washington Post: White flight is creating a separate and unequal system of higher education
Children's Book
Black Lives Matter Library is a Google Slides project makes a virtual library of books and videos of the books being read out loud with links to where to purchase the books.
Emiline: Knight in Training
Be the Change
Black History In Its Own Words
King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr
Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (audiobook)
he Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Goldie Vance Vol. 1
Neveryona
Jonesy Vol. 1
Kindred: A Graphic Novel
Falling In Love With Hominids
Black Dynamite
Girls Resist
Shaft: A Complicated Man
Upgrade Soul
Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change
Return to Neveryon
Tales of East Africa
Big Ideas for Young Thinkers
Alabaster Shadows
Catboy
Black Fatigue (excerpt)
Incognegro: Renaissance
Shaft: Imitation of Life
This Book is Anti-Racist
Archival Quality
Overground Railroad
Prince of Cats
Feed Your Mind
Step Into Your Power
Your Black Friend
Victor LaValle's Destroyer
Locked contentM.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand Vol. 1: Mobilize
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids
We Can't Talk About This at Work (audiobook)
We Can't Talk About This at Work
The Black Mage
Exquisite
Subtle Acts of Exclusion
Speak Up!
Black History for Beginners
Raising Confident Black Kids
Bitter Root
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
BTTM FDRS
Xena: Warrior Princess: Road Warrior
Quincredible Vol. 1
Twelve Years a Slave
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o (Author) and Vashti Harrison (Illustrator0
Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim (Author) and LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry (Author) and Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (Author) and Rafael López (Illustrator)
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers (Author) and Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)
Little Leaders: Bold Black Women in History by Vashti Harrison
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (Author) and Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
She Persisted: 13 Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton (Author) and Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)
The Barefoot Book of Children by Kate DePalma and Tessa Strickland
Max and the Tag Along Moon
Full, full, full of love
Bippity Bop Barbershop
Daddy Calls Me Man
Please Baby Please
The Snowy Day
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Monster Trouble
Ada Twist, Scientist
Whistle for Willie
Big Hair Don't Care
Hair Love
How to Be an Antiracist
Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
Aaliyah the Brave
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
How High the Moon by Karyn Parsons
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Kid's Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Little People, Big Dreams: Maya Angelou by Lisbeth Kaiser and Leire Salaberria
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
Firebird by Misty Copeland
Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris and Marissa Valdez
Student Material
Black Lives Matter at School, a national coalition, created an anti-racist curriculum guide with English/language arts, math, social studies, and arts materials. The guide has lessons for early childhood through high school students that align with the principles of the Black Lives Matter movement.
D.C. Area Educators For Social Justice, an initiative of Teaching for Change, has a collection of lessons, videos, readings, books, and general teaching guides for students in early childhood through high school.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture launched an online portal called Talking About Race that's designed to help steer conversations about racism, racial identity, and the way these forces shape every aspect of society.
The Pulitzer Center partnered with the New York Times to turn the 1619 Project, a collection of essays and literary works observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery, into a curriculum for teachers of all grade levels. The curriculum includes reading guides, activities, and other resources about the history of race in America.
Teaching Tolerance, a project by the Southern Poverty Law Center, periodically updates its package on teaching about race, racism, and police violence.
Ian Lawrence, a teacher in Toronto, shared on Twitter a Google drive filled with resources for teachers of all grade levels on anti-racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. The resources include relevant articles, discussion questions, coloring pages, and Spanish-language materials.
Zimmerman & Zimmerman P.A. and BCCS put together bingo boards of Children's books to encourage kids to read over the summer and read books about diversity. There is one for
Older and
Younger kids. They also hosted a reading night with some of the books and this could be a good activity for other organizations or classrooms.
Books
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota by Sun Yung Shin and Shannon Gibney
A People’s History of the United States. by Howard Zinn
A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. by Bell Hooks
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson
An American By Marriage by Tayari Jones
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Anything by Angie Thomas
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by Barbara Applebaum
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice by Kristin J. Anderson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Feminits Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses by Lawrence Ross
Born a Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Breathe: A letter to my sons by Imani Perry
But Some of Us Are Brave by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
Caught by Marie Gottschalk
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Disrupting White Supremacy by Jennifer Harvey, Karin A. Case, Robin Hawley Gorsline
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson, Kathy Russell
Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzel
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories by Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Ali Michael
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education (Cultural Pluralism #2) by Cheryl E. Matias
Fix It by Kenneth Imo
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) by Christopher Emdin
For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood… And the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times by Amy Sonnie, James Tracy, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin
How the South Wont the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker
IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson
Invisble No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Killing Rage Ending Racism by Bell Hooks
LaToya Council by Carolyn Choi
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong by James Loewen
Living Into God's Dream: Dismantling Racism in America by Catherine Meeks and Jim Wallis
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Malcolm X by Alex Haley
March. (Graphic Novel) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Native Son by Richard Wright
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
Passing by Nella Larsen
Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz
Promise And A Way Of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson
Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understabdubg abd Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
Race Traitor by Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey
Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Skin Again by Bell Hooks
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education by Demetri L. Morgan, Charles H.F. Davis III
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions. by Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran
Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) by Catherine Fosl
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haleu and Malcom X
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bridge Called My Back by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America and Anders Walker
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
The Colors Of Us by Karen Katz
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gilbran Muhammad
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know by Tema Jon Okun
The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick-Parks
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
The Injustice of This Moment Is not an 'Aberration' by Michelle Alexander
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America by Anthony Patrick Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, and Peter Schmidt
The Miner's Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerold Torres
The Myth Of Race by Robert Sussman
The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twnety-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
The Poaaesive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity, Polotics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipitz
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Street by Ann Oetry
The Summer We Got Free. by Mia Mckenzie
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga
This Promise of Change by Jo Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
Toawards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass
Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances Kendall
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Waiting 'til The Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
We were Eight by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
West Indian Immigrants by Suzanne Model
What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints #398) by Robin Diangelo
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America by Ira Katznelson
Whistling Vivaldi Claude Steel by Claude Steel
White Awake Daniel Hill by Daniel Hill
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Whiteness of a Different Color by Mathew Frye Jacobson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria Beverly Tatum by Beverly Tatum
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Zami by Audre Lorde
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore and Erica L. Greene
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts
On Being a Black American Biglaw Associate by Lauren E. Skerrett
You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism by Tsedale M. Melaku
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
Copycat by Kimberla Lawson
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Thick and Other Essays by Tressia McMillan Cottom
Dear White Peacemakers by Osheta Moore
White Supremacy and Me By Layla Saad
Defiant by Wade Hudson
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
The Cross and The Lynching Tree by James Cone
Resurrection Hope by Kelly Brown Douglas
Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter
Religion of a Different Color by Paul Reeve
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Loge
Scholarships
ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Grants 20 incoming diverse law students with $15,000 of financial assistance over the course of their three years in law school.
Programming includes law student scholarship funding, such as the Special Counsel Hispanic Scholarship Fund and scholarships presented through its joint venture with the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) for the annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition.
Lloyd M. Johnson Jr. Scholarship Program
Provides scholarship support for newly entering first-year law students pursuing a Juris Doctor (non-LLM) degree. The Scholarship Program will provide scholarships at $10,000 per year for up to three years.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Supports law students who seek to further MALDEF’s mission of advancing the civil rights of the Latino community in the United States through the legal profession. In recent years, MALDEF has annually awarded 5–10 law school scholarships of $5,000 each to deserving law students from throughout the nation.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Has provided over $19 million in financial support to undergraduates and law students, making it possible for hundreds of highly qualified students to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, universities, and law schools.
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Scholarships
Awarded each fall to law students who demonstrate a commitment to serve or contribute to the Asian Pacific American community as future leaders.
The Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Scholarships
The goal of these scholarships is to increase the number of underrepresented minority groups serving as intellectual property law practitioners in law firms and the intellectual property law departments in corporations.
The Snell & Wilmer Fellowship for Advancement and Resources (FAR)
Annually, Snell & Wilmer will name up to two FAR Fellows to receive an LSAT preparation course of the Fellow’s choosing, a stipend equal to the most current cost to both sit for the LSAT and register for the Credential Assembly Service, a 1L law school prep course, money for books for all three years of law school, a technology stipend (if needed), and mentorship from an assigned Snell & Wilmer attorney over the course of the fellowship.
Zelle Diversity In Law Scholarship
Created for law students who either (1) are a member of a diverse group (broadly defined to include race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, physical disability or economic/educational disadvantage) that is historically underrepresented in the private practice of law; or (2) demonstrate a long-standing commitment to diversity that will be furthered by award of the scholarship.
AAJ Richard D. Hailey Scholarship
AAJ's Minority Caucus will award a $5,000 scholarship to a minority Law Student Member who is entering his or her first, second, or third year of law school. Additionally, the winner will be provided the opportunity to attend the AAJ Annual Convention.
Corporation Counsel of Women of Color: My Life as a Lawyer Scholarship
1L and 2L students who are enrolled in an accredited law school in any state of the United States of America are eligible for the Corporate Counsel Women of Color My Life As a Lawyer Scholarship.
Pipeline to Practice Scholarship
Founded in 2016 with a mission to provide academic enrichment and career development opportunities to talented young people from underserved and underrepresented communities
Media
13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
King In The Wilderness — HBO
The Loving Story — HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Amazon Prime
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson — Netflix
LA 92 — Netflix
Mudbound — Netflix
High on the Hog — Netflix
When They See Us — Netflix
Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History — Netflix
What Happened to Miss Simone? — Netflix
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap (Season 1, Episode 20) — Netflix
Teach Us All — Netflix
Whose Streets? — Hulu and Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
Detroit — Hulu
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise — PBS
Reconstruction: America after the Civil War — PBS
The Talk — PBS
Slavery By Another Name — PBS
Freedom Riders — PBS
Rosedale: The Way It Is — Bill Moyers Journal
I Am Not Your Negro — Amazon Prime and Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
Just Mercy — Amazon Prime
Selma — Amazon Prime
Salute — Amazon Prime
Dark Girls — Amazon Prime
Birth of a Movement — Amazon Prime
John L. Walker: Striving for Equality — Amazon Prime
The Black Power Mixtape — Amazon Prime
The Central Park Five (Ken Burns) — Amazon Prime
Harriet Tubman: They Called Her Moses — Amazon Prime
Major — Amazon Prime
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand — Amazon Prime
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till — Amazon Prime
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed — Amazon Prime
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power — Amazon Prime
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four — Amazon Prime
Freedom Summer — Amazon Prime
Spies of Mississippi — Amazon Prime
Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall — Amazon Prime
Two Black Men A Week — Amazon Prime
The Hate U Give — Amazon Prime
Broken on All Sides — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
Cruel and Unusual — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
Law & Order: An Examination of Police Practices and Behavior — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
Profiled: The Mothers of Murdered Black and Latino Youth — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
We All We Got: An Elegy of Urban America — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
White Like Me — Kanopy (via DC Public Library)
A Life Well Spent — Criterion Channel
Black Mother — Criterion Channel
Black Panthers — Criterion Channel
Cane River — Criterion Channel
Daughters of the Dust — Criterion Channel
Down in the Delta — Criterion Channel
Losing Ground — Criterion Channel
My Brother’s Wedding — Criterion Channel
The Watermelon Woman — Criterion Channel
Hair Love — YouTube
They've Gotta Have Us — Apple TV
Websites
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Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
Next Church: The Sarasota Statement
Hashtags
#BLM
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackoutTuesday
#NoRacism
#AllColorsAreBeautiful
#8cantwait
Organizations' 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
Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): 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
Social Media
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Expungements Project Western Kansas
Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession
National Lawyers Guild – DC Chapter Legal Observer Program
National Lawyers Guild – MD Chapter Legal Observer Program
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law Legal Mobilization Project
We The Action: Election Protection
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Laws and Cases
Buchanan v Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) (finding exclusionary zoning unconstitutional)
Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) (finding judicial enforcement of racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional)
Pigford v. Glickman, 206 F.3d 1212 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (affirming the district court's order of approval in USDA class action litigation)
Texas Dep't of Hous. & Cmty. Affs. v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015) (holding that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act)
