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Videos & Podcasts

• ACLU Know Your Rights – https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/
• ACLU At Liberty Podcast – https://www.aclu.org/podcast/podcast-at-liberty
• Chasing Justice Podcast – https://www.chasingjusticepodcast.com/
• Vox Politics & Policy – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5df0hNFQxY_CKa8wrUERh-u
• Kimberle Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality” – https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en
• Intersectionality Matters Podcast – https://aapf.org/podcast
• NPR Code Switch – https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge – https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/
• Yikes! Podcast – https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/
• Momentum: A Race Forward – https://www.raceforward.org/media/podcast/momentum-race-forward-podcast

Online Texts

• The New York Times 1619 Project – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
• Vox, “The systemic racism black Americans face, explained in 9 charts” – https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21284527/systemic-racism-black-americans-9-charts-explained
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, “What Is Owed” – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html?src=longreads
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – https://swap.stanford.edu/20141218230016/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/popular%5Frequests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
• James Baldwin, “Malcolm and Martin” – https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/4/1/malcolm-and-martin
• Reni Eddo-Lodge, “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” – http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/
• Justin Worland, “America’s Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism” – https://time.com/5851855/systemic-racism-america/
• ACLRC “Forms of Racism” – http://www.aclrc.com/forms-of-racism
• Stanford University, Papers of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/publications/king-papers
• Collection of Essays by James Baldwin – https://tetw.org/James_Baldwin

Print Texts

Note: To support the Black community, particularly amidst a pandemic that has disproportionately affected them and other communities of color, we recommend purchasing from independent, Black-owned bookstores. For lists of Black-owned bookstores that process online orders, click here or here.

• Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (2019)
• Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, Jamia Wilson, Road Map for Revolutionaries (2018)
• Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (2013)
• Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudices that Shape Our Lives (2020)
• Dr. Pragya Agarwal, Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias (2020)
• Ruth King, Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm (2018, nonfiction)
• Ijeomo Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race (2018, nonfiction)
• Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018, nonfiction)*
• Ibrahim X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist (2019, nonfiction)
• Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Intervention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century (2012, nonfiction)
• Kalwant Bhopal, White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society (2018, nonfiction)
• Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science (2019, nonfiction)
• Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010, criminal justice)
• Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003, criminal justice)
• Ed Gordon, Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership (2020, leadership)
• Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018, history)
• Paul Butler, Chokehold: Policing Black Men (2017, criminal justice)
• Damon Young, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (2019, memoir)
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969, autobiography)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015, memoir)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power (2017, essays)
• Ibrahim X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016, nonfiction)
• Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist (2020, memoir from the BLM cofounders)
• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984, essays)
• James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963, nonfiction)
• bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman (1981, dissertation): named after Sojourner Truth’s 1851 speech
• Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard (2019, essays)
• Jim Wallis, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (2015)
• Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (2019)
• Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (2017, nonfiction)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (2014, nonfiction)
• Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (2015, history)
• Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir (2018, memoir)
• Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy (2018, essays)
• Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (2017, nonfiction)
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017, history)
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (2017, nonfiction)
• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Greatest Migration (2014, history)
• Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020, nonfiction)
• Carol Anderson, PhD, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017, nonfiction)
• Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, American Lynching (2014, nonfiction)
• Catherine Morris, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 (2017, nonfiction)
• Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave (1853, nonfiction)

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