Social Justice Resources

KID BOOKS

Book lists:

• Pragmatic mom: White privilege, booklist
  https://www.pragmaticmom.com/2019/05/white-fragility-books-for-kids/
• The Conscious Kid website: Books celebrating black boys
  https://www.theconsciouskid.org/black-books-matter-childrens-books-celebrating-black-boys

Recommended Books:

• All the Colors we Are (this explains where we get our skin color from and gives language about melanin etc.)
• Come on Rain
• I Love my Hair
• Race Cars (a book about White privilege – it’s a great pre-K book)
• Over and Under the Pond

Where to buy books online:

• Black-owned Bookstores
• Bookshop.org – Support Local bookstores

 

ADULT BOOKS

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

 

BOOKS IN THE CO-OP (TO SHARE)

• All Are Welcome – Sashont
• The Girl who has a Mind for Math – Rebecca
• Hair Love – Sashont
• I Am Enough – Sashont
• I Am Perfectly Designed – Sashont/Carrie
• It Takes A Village – Sashont
• Jake Makes A World – Carrie
• King of Kindergarten – Carrie
• Lullaby For A Black Mother – Carrie
• Mae Among the Stars – Rebecca
• Sulwe – Carrie

 

ARTICLES & BLOGS

• Courtney Ahn, Instagram / A guide to white privilege
• Teen Vogue / Beyond the hashtag: How to take anti-racist action in your life
• The Cut / How to help demand justice for George Floyd
• Cup of Jo / On becoming anti-racist
• New Yorker / The Death of George Floyd, in context
• Healthy Children / Talking to Your Children about Racial Bias
• Motherly / How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
• Striving Parent / Blog (I write about my journey exploring the ways I can address and combat systems of oppression within the context of my family)
• HuffPost / Preserving my child’s innocence

 

VIDEOS

Video Book Readings

• A is for Activist
• A Kids Book About Racism
• Chocolate Me
• Not My Idea
• The Colors of Us 
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
• Separate is Never Equal
• Something Happened In Our Town
• What Can A Citizen Do?

IGTV

• Chrissy Ford on anti-racism
• Ijeoma Oluo on the role of violence
• Trevor Noah on the dominoes of racial injustice

Documentaries

• 13th by Ava Duvernay (on Netflix/YouTube)
• I am Not Your Negro (trailer linked, available to rent)

 

PLACES TO DONATE

• Fair Fight
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Reclaim the Block
• Black Visions Collective
• The Bail Project
• Social Justice Learning Institute (grassroots, LA-based)

 

PODCASTS

• NYT / The Daily: The Latest from Minneapolis
• Scene on Radio / Seeing White (series)