Books:

• Michelle Alexander. (2020). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.
• Carol Anderson. (2016). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
• Maya Angelou. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (autobiography 1 of 6). An American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America and this book was nominated for a National Book Award and called her magnum opus. Her poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") allows her to be free instead of imprisoned.
• Daine Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross. (2021). A Black Women's History of the United States. A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country.
• Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, & Morenike Giwa Onaiwu. (2017). All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism. Delve into poetry, essays, short fiction, photography, paintings, and drawings in the first-ever anthology entirely by autistic people of color, featuring 61 writers and artists from seven countries. The work here represents the lives, politics, and artistic expressions of Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, Mixed-Race, and other racialized and people of color from many autistic communities, often speaking out sharply on issues of marginality, intersectionality, and liberation.
• Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige. (2012). The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer’s vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism.
• Austin Channing Brown. (2018). I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. I'm Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy... and discover how blackness - if we let it - can save us all.
• Dee Brown. (2007). Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.
• Shakil Choudhury. (2015). Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs Them. Reframing the debate regarding racism and discrimination.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates. (2015). Between the World and Me. A profound work that pivots from the biggest question about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Powerfully written in the form of a letter to his adolescent son.
• Beverly Daniel Tatum. (2017). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America.
• Angela Y. Davis. (1981). Women, Race, & Class. A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
• Robin DiAngelo. (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of white people’s emotional responses to racism which she terms “white fragility.” White fragility is the result of socialized beliefs about race, racism, and white supremacy. When white people’s racial comfort is challenged, they feel a range of defensive emotions, which they externalize through negative actions and behaviors.
• Joy DeGruy. (2017). Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: American's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery? Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. (2015). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples.
• Michael Eric Dyson. (2020). Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters—each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney—Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life—and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson’s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.
• Reni Eddo-Lodge. (2017). Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, from whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge, and counter racism. This book is an essential handbook for anyone looking to understand how structural racism works.
• Laura Gomez. (2020). Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity--because it impacts everything we think we know about race in America.
• Annette Gordon-Reed. (2021). On Juneteenth. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Texas native.
• Nikole Hanna-Hones. (2021). The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself.
• Janet Helms. (2020, 3rd Ed.) A Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life. This book is designed to help White people fully recognize and accept their racial identity, assume the proper responsibility for ending racism, and develop an understanding of how racism impacts their own racial group. This powerful text encourages positive racial adjustment and deeper levels of self-understanding. The book explores the meaning of race in society, the “color-blindness” movement, the problem of ignorance about Whiteness, the various phases of internalized racism, and other critical topics. Evocative and meaningful activities throughout the text foster reflection and increased levels of self-awareness and acceptance.
• Damaris B. Hill. (2019). A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, Hill presents a bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled African-American women. Hill's passionate odes to Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate the modern-day inheritors of their load and light, binding history, author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle.
• Damaris B. Hill. (2022). Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood. Paying homage to prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Whitney Houston and Toni Morrison, Breath Better Spent invites you to walk through this landscape, too, exploring the spaces-both visible and invisible-that Black girls occupy in the national imagination, taking in the communal breath of girlhood, and asking yourself: In a country like America, what does active love and protection of Black girls look like?
• Nell Irvin Painter. (2010). The History of White People. Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends.
• Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-Gooden. (2003). Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America. With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.
• Ibram X. Kendi. (2016). Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
• Ibram X. Kendi. (2019). How to be an Anti-Racist. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
• Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele. (2017). When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.
• Ruth King. (2018). Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. Drawing on her expertise as a meditation teacher and diversity consultant, King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion.
• Bettina L. Love. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist.
• Wesley Lowery. (2017). "They Can't Kill Us All" The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives. Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of one year of reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today.
• Ijeoma Oluo. (2018). So You Want to Talk About Race. A New York Times bestseller that offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America. This book guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. According to the National Book Review, it gives both white people and people of color the language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases. It is  described as generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action.
• Paul Ortiz. (2018). An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.
• Imani Perry. (2022). South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America
• Andres Resendez. (2017). The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see.
• Richard Rothstein. (2018). The Color of Law. Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
• Sheila Wise Rowe. (2020). Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience. As a child, Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school, and she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others. We experience ongoing racial trauma as this lie is perpetuated by the action or inaction of the government, media, viral videos, churches, and within families of origin.  Professional counselor Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead readers to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. In each chapter, she includes an interview with a person of color to explore how we experience and resolve racial trauma. With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both been on the journey and shown others the way forward, you will find a safe pathway to resilience.
• Layla Saad. (2020). Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:
  • Examining your own white privilege
  • What allyship really means
  • Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
  • Changing the way that you view and respond to race
  • How to continue the work to create social change
• Bryan Stevenson. (2015). Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
• Sonya Renee Taylor. (2021). The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.
• Harriet Washington. (2008). Medical Apartheid. The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book.
• Isabel Wilkerson. (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Essays/Articles/Web:

• Mumia Abu-Jamal. (2017). Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Essay Collection.
• Brennan Allan Steels. (2020). Breathe: A Guided Healing Journal for Black Men. 
• Greta Anderson. (2020). More Pandemic Consequences for Underrepresented Students. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/16/low-income-and-students-color-greatest-need-pandemic-relief?MvBriefArticleId=51397 
• Kelsey Blackwell. (2018). Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People. The Arrow. https://arrow-journal.org/why-people-of-color-need-spaces-without-white-people/
• Malcolm Burnley. (2020). Author Brittney Cooper on Harnessing Rage, Right Now. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/20IHW-black-lives-matter-protests-brittney-cooper-women.html
• Bethonie Butler. (2020). Taraji P. Henson wants Black people to talk more openly about mental health. Her new show does just that. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/12/14/taraji-p-henson-peace-of-mind-q-and-a/ 
• E. J. R. David. (2015). 5 Questions We Often Ask Ourselves After Microaggressions. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/unseen-and-unheard/201504/5-questions-we-often-ask-ourselves-after-microaggressions
• Bernard Grant. (2022). Mental Health for Black and African American Students. Best Colleges. https://www.bestcolleges.com/resources/black-mental-health-guide/
• Andrew Greenia. (2018). The Role of White Co-Conspirators in Dismantling Systemic Racism. Embracing Equity. https://embracingequity.org/blog/2018/11/2/let-us-work-together-the-role-of-white-co-conspirators-in-dismantling-systemic-racism
• Ida Harris. (2019). Code-Switching is Not Trying to Fit in to White Culture, It's Surviving It. Yes! Magazine. https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/12/17/culture-code-switching/
• Bassey Ikpi. (2019). I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays.
• Lori Lakin Hutcherson. (2017). My White Friend Asked me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest. Yes! Magazine. https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2017/09/08/my-white-friend-asked-me-on-facebook-to-explain-white-privilege-i-decided-to-be-honest/
• Audre Lorde. (2007). Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches.
• Jon Marcus. (2021). College Degree Doesn't Pay Off As Well for First-Generation Grads. Hechinger Report. https://hechingerreport.org/college-degree-doesnt-pay-off-as-well-for-first-generation-grads/?utm_source=The+Hechinger+Report&utm_campaign=019d695a13-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_28_02_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d3ee4c3e04-019d695a13-322721341
• Maria Martinolich & Kamini Ramdeen. (2021). How to be an Ally in the Fight Against Racism. theSkimm. https://www.theskimm.com/news/how-to-be-an-ally-fight-racism-5biSdmA3LvKQtjVty1l1Sv
• Tressie McMillan Cottom. (2019). Thick and Other Essays. Essay Collection.
• Carmen Nobel. (2012). The Case Against Racial Colorblindness. Harvard Business School. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-case-against-racial-colorblindness
• University of Toronto. (2010). Human Brain Recognizes and Reacts to Race. Science Daily. Retrieved July 7, 2020 from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100426113108.htm
• Georgie Williams. What is Critical Race Theory (CRT)? Perlego. https://www.perlego.com/knowledge/study-guides/what-is-critical-race-theory/

Trainings:

• The Great Unlearn. Rachel E. Cargle, Curator. https://rachel-cargle.com/the-great-unlearn/
• Undoing Racism. The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. https://pisab.org/undoing-racism-community-organizing-workshop/

Videos:

• Act.TV. (2019). Systemic Racism Explained. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ
• Emmanuel Acho (2020). Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8jUA7JBkF4
• David Hoffman (2020, Jun 17). The Most Intense Heartfelt Description of Racism I Ever Filmed. Interview with Roger Wilkins. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUFiXeNZV4&feature=youtu.be
• Hogg Foundation for Mental Health (2021, January 7). 3 Things to Know About Being a Good Ally. You Tube: https://youtu.be/xYKTdMyefH0 
• Seattle Channel (2018, July 3). Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility.' YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
• TED (2019, April). Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff. How We Can Make Racism a Solvable Problem - and Improve Policing. https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_goff_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
• TED (2020, May). How to Build an Antiracist World. Ibram X. Kendi. https://www.ted.com/talks/ibram_x_kendi_how_to_build_an_antiracist_world?fbclid=IwAR3LEm-OQESZyYgASbPDpDAV2EL_3qbOt9HDTEdDkRaxWivS64aNXfqCo1k#t-1620573
• TED (2016, Dec 7). The urgency of intersectionality. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o
• TEDx Talks (2014, Jul 10). Allegories on race and racism. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
• TEDx Talks (2016, March 21). Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice | Megan Ming Francis. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s

Podcasts/Episodes/Listening:

• Black Lives Matter and The Ally + Accomplice Meditations. Dr. Candice Nicole. http://drcandicenicole.com/2016/07/black-lives-matter-meditation/
• Code Switch. NPR. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
• Good Ancestor Podcast. Layla F. Saad. http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast
• New York Times Audio Series. (2019). 1619. Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/podcasts/the-daily/1619-project.html
• Scene on Radio. Season 2. (2017). Seeing White. https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
• Shine Brighter Together Podcast. Monique Melton. https://www.moniquemelton.com/podcast
• Talk of the Nation. NPR. (April 12, 2010). 'Whistling Vivaldi' and Beating Stereotypes. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125859207
• Unlocking Us: Brene Brown. (June 3, 2020). Brene with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist.  https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/

Collections:

• Frank Baird. (2020). Anti-racism Resources. https://www.frankbaird.com/whiteness-antiracism-resources
• Jon Greenberg. (2015). Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism - from Ferguson to Charleston. Citizenship and Social Justice. http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/
• Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture. Boston College. #racialtraumaisreal. Jernigan, M. M., Green, C. E., Perez-Gualdron, Liu, M. M., Henze, K. T., Chen, C. . . . Helms, J. E. (2015). Chestnut Hill, MA. https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/sites/isprc/isprc-advisory-board.html 
• Project Implicit. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/. A project by Harvard researchers interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases.
• National Museum of African American History & Culture. Talking About Race. https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist
• Understanding and Overcoming Hate. https://www.overcominghateportal.org/overcoming-hate.html

Reports:

• Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence against People of African Descent in the United States. (March, 2021).  https://inquirycommission.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Commission-Report-15-April.pdf

Documentaries:

• Craig Atkinson. (2016). Do Not Resist. A stunning look at the current state of policing in America with a glimpse into the future. An urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. The film takes viewers from a ride-along with a South Carolina SWAT team and inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of “righteous violence” to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments – before exploring where controversial new technologies, including predictive policing algorithms, could lead the field next.
• Greg Barker. (2014). We Are the Giant. In We Are the Giant, ordinary citizens face the same moral questions that have defined revolutionary leaders across the ages, from Jefferson to Che to Mandela. With remarkable access, the film takes its audience inside the lives of six extraordinary people who grapple with the agonizing and universal dilemmas at the heart of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence.
• Aaron J. Christopher. (2019). White Savior: Racism in the American Church. Despite the progress many see in the US over the years, it's become increasingly clear that the deep roots of racism and white supremacy continue to run through our political, cultural, and religious institutions. White Savior explores the historic relationship between racism and American Christianity, the ongoing segregation of the church in the US, and the complexities of racial reconciliation.
• Ava DuVernay. (2016). 13th. In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
• Melissa Haizlip. (2018). Mr. SOUL! From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an uncompromising celebration of Black culture. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. Mr. SOUL! captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever.
• Eugene Jarecki. (2012). The House I Live In. The war on drugs is not about drugs at all. For over forty years, America’s “War on Drugs” has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in America are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty U.S. states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America’s drug war - from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Together, these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war? What perpetuates it? And what can be done to stop it?
• Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler. (2021). Who We Are: A Chronical of Racism in America. Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and revelations, ACLU deputy legal director Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to modern America.
• Ian Lilley. (2018). Who Put the Klan into Ku Klux Klan. In this surprising documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines the links between racism today in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it.
• Jonathon Olshefski. (2017). Quest. A portrait of an American family. This intimate chronicle of an African-American family in Philadelphia spans eight years, beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency. Parents Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and Christine’a "Ma Quest” Rainey navigate the hardship and strife that grips their North Philly neighborhood as they raise their children, and cultivate a creative sanctuary for their community in their home music studio.
• PBS. (2021). Goin' Back to T-Town. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/t-town-chapter-1/ The story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation.
• Raoul Peck. (2016). I Am Not Your Negro. The most important civil rights documentary of our time. The Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is based on Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, a stirring, personal account of the lives and deaths of his friends and US Civil Rights Movement leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
• Sam Pollard. (2020). MLK/FBI. Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Dawn Porter. (2020). John Lewis: Good Trouble. The film explores Georgia representative's, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.
• Marc Silver. (2015). 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets. When loud music turns deadly. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets dissects the aftermath of the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and the trial of Michael Dunn who, in 2012, shot him repeatedly at a Florida gas station for playing his music too loudly.
• Jemar Tisby. (2020). The Color of Compromise. The Color of Compromise Video Study reveals chilling connections between the church and racism throughout American history. Jemar Tisby explores ways Christians have reinforced theories of racial superiority and inferiority and outlines the kind of bold action needed to forge a future of equality and justice.

Organizations:

• American Civil Liberties Union. https://www.aclu.org/
• Black Lives Matter. https://blacklivesmatter.com/
• Color of Change. https://colorofchange.org/
• Equal Justice Initiative. https://eji./org
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). https://naacp.org/

Books:

• Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James. (2020). I Am Every Good Thing. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is.
• Grace Byers & Keturah A. Bobo. (2018). I Am Enough. A gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another.
• Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard. (2019). Something Happened In Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice. Animated reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOhOFGcWm8
• Tami Charles & Bryan Collier. (2020). All Because You Matter. Discover this poignant, timely, and emotionally stirring picture book, an ode to black and brown children everywhere that is full of hope, assurance, and love.
• Matthew Cherry. (2019). Hair Love. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
• Ta-Nehisi Coats. (2015). Between the World and Me. Young Adult. The author writes to his 15-year-old son, Samori, weaving his personal, historical, and intellectual development into his ruminations on how to live in a black body in America.
• Vashti Harrison. (2017). Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. Features 40 biographies of African American women that helped shape history. Text and illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, filmmaker Julie Dash. It shines a light upon many that often go unrecognized and highlights many familiar women too like Ida B. Wells, Nina Simone and Oprah Winfrey.
• Vashti Harrison. (2019). Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include writer James Baldwin, artist Aaron Douglas, filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, lawman Bass Reeves, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, and musician Prince.
• Jennifer Harvey. (2019). Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America. Book for parents. This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able and active anti-racist allies.
• Steve Herman. (2019). Teach Your Dragon About Diversity.  A story appropriate for young kids that makes them aware of the differences in all beings and the need to accept and respect others, regardless of diversity.
• Joanna Ho. (2021). Eyes the Kiss in the Corners. A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment. This powerful, poetic picture book will resonate with readers of all ages.
• Ibram X. Kendi & Ashley Lukashevsky. (2020). Antiracist Baby. A board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.
• Lupita Nyong'o & Vashti Harrison. (2019). Sulwe. In this stunning debut picture book, actress Lupita Nyong’o creates a whimsical and heartwarming story to inspire children to see their own unique beauty.
• Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman. (2008). All Are Welcome. Discover a school where all young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated.
• LaTashia M. Perry & Bea Jackson. (2016). Skin Like Mine. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children.
• Tiffany Rose. (2019). M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child. Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, Black-positive messages, from A is for Afro, to F is for Fresh, to W is for Worthy. This book teaches children their ABCs while encouraging them to love the skin that they're in.
• Angie Thomas. (2017). The Hate U Give. Young Adult Fiction. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
• Michael Tyler & David Lee Csicsko. (2005). The Skin You Live In. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers.

Articles/Web Resources:

• Child Mind Institute. Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News. https://childmind.org/article/racism-and-violence-how-to-help-kids-handle-the-news/
• CNN Health. How Parents Can Support Kids Through (and Beyond) the Latest Wave of Anti-Asian American Violence. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/health/parents-support-kids-asian-hate-crime-wellness/index.html?fbclid=IwAR03r1WXKelqEkXTR2cyPzo4MCtBB38Q0bxzNi2sIcTpcbJ-WkLZMn9KO24
• College Educated. Avoiding Microaggressions in Classrooms and Online. https://collegeeducated.com/resources/avoiding-microaggressions-in-classrooms-and-online/
• Nettles, A., & Eng, M. Having 'The Talk': Expert Guidance on Preparing Kids for Police Interactions. NPR. https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/08/27/754459083/having-the-talk-expert-guidance-on-preparing-kids-for-police-interactions
• National Museum of African American History & Culture. Talking About Race. https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/audiences/parent-caregiver.
• Nefertiti Austin. (2018, Feb 15). Teaching Your Child About Black History. PBS Kids for Parents. https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/teaching-your-child-about-black-history-month
• Sesame Street. Let's Stand up for Racial Justice Together. Learn how to have open discussions about racism with the children in your life. https://www2.sesame.org/l/293712/2020-09-23/c3l46x?rbref=MR_RJ_Oct_FB_Pros&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=MR_RJ_Oct_FB_Pros&utm_content=grover-power-of-we-static&fbclid=IwAR2eebXhwkI-vCh2fVM-LkftivvyAHvFa5ER6Ut7TVM4HjnmAhwsVq9j4s0_aem_AV-Wjt_55UR0N61dvJmCxw3NKcmf7uzHs9J5RJhJyec6-7NZrlvQKjX2fxGnLuyL-q36ate7DVEveW-uzxOUq57x0rOOnsCuvQragrWXbPeVfg&fb_post_id=23845957079800490&gclid=CIf3oNCqv-8CFVCYxQIdVuIPrw&gclsrc=ds
• We Need Diverse Books. Resources. https://diversebooks.org/

Coloring Books:

• Kadeesha Bryant. (2020). Anti-Racism Begins With Me.

Listening:

• Embrace Race. Supporting Kids of Color Amid Racialized Violence: Part Two. https://www.embracerace.org/resources/supporting-kids-of-color-amid-racialized-violence
• Fare of the Free Child. Hosted by Akilah S. Richards. https://www.raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
• National Public Radio. (2019, April 26). Talking Race With Young Children. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children?fbclid=IwAR262i36JkNreR2lYg0pPPHDPL9u6iyHSVkMV2vrR3Ehdl-1oG-0ZlXKMrY
• Parenting Forward. (2020, May 18). Episode 75: Five Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/075-five-pandemic-parenting-lessons-with-cindy-wang-brandt/id1403686245?i=1000474951309
• Integrated Schools. S5:Ep13. Raising White Kids With Jennifer Harvey. https://integratedschools.org/podcast/harvey/

Organizations:

• The Conscious Kid. https://www.theconsciouskid.org/

Books:

• Michelle Alexander. (2010). The New Jim Crow. An examination of the racial bias in America’s criminal justice system and its impact on the African American community. As a civil rights lawyer and activist, the author draws on personal experiences to argue that our current legal system is unfairly biased against African Americans—even more so than other minorities. Taking readers from slavery through the second-class citizenship of Jim Crow with voter suppression, violence, unfair policing practices, and segregation, she shows how Jim Crow lives on today in mass incarceration, which strips black men of their freedom, voting rights, and access to government programs.
• James Baldwin. (1985). The Evidence of Things Not Seen. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.
• Daina Ramey Berry. (2017). The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America.
• W. E. B. Du Bois. (2012). Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Originally published in 1935. This classic of black history is especially pertinent today because it describes the attempt to establish black citizenship and an interracial democracy in the United States immediately after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. This experiment in American democracy was overthrown and a rigid system of racial subordination, segregation, disfranchisement, lynching and racial violence was established in the south. It teaches us how quickly political gains can be undone and that the fight for racial equality in the United States is an ongoing one.
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1965). The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History. 
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History: 1513-2008. Henry is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. This book was heavily criticized by the NY Times. The text makes no direct claim to be a definitive history of black America, however, it is comprehensive. It is a glossy, chronological digest of events from the earliest known records of the Atlantic slave trade to the inauguration of Barack Obama. It assembles a brisk narrative of the Middle Passage and how the United States came to end up virtually alone among nations in perpetuating the slavery. In route to emancipation, it covers Nat Turner’s rebellion, the Dred Scott decision, the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the role of black activists in the abolitionist movement and ex-slaves in the California gold rush, antebellum celebrities as vocalist Elizabeth T. Greenfield “The Black Swan,” the literary triumphs of escaped slaves Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, and the tribulations of Anthony Burns, who escaped slavery for employment in Boston only to be arrested and tried as a fugitive. It covers the tension in African-American history between advancement and setbacks: the false spring of Reconstruction, grotesque caricatures of black faces at the turn of the 20th century, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s, and decades of black artistic talent across the cultural spectrum. The author waylays his blend of paradox and irony only toward the climax, when he ushers in Spike Lee, black astronauts, Prince, Toni Morrison and the incumbent president, leaving only Hurricane Katrina and (maybe) Clarence Thomas as discordant notes.
• William H. Grier & Price M. Cobbs. (1968). Black Rage. Two black psychiatrists reveal the full dimension of the inner conflicts and the desperation of the black man's life in America. The accuracy of their thesis was clearly demonstrated by the African-American community's reaction to Professor Henry Gate's arrest on his own doorstep.
• Marcus Rediker. (2007). The Slave Ship. Undertaking a thorough examination of all aspects, both human and material, social and political aspects it shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and first-hand accounts, it is a brutal book that gets into the gritty, unbearable details of what life and imprisonment was like on the slave ships that brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic in chains and vile conditions. He notes that we often hear about the brutality of slavery itself, but the horrors of slavery began long before the slave ships ever reached American and Caribbean shores.
• Lothrop Stoddard. (1920). The Rising TIde of Color Against White World Supremacy. The racial divide in America is hinged upon the precarious relations between the two communities—the dominant White Americans and the marginalized Black Americans. Behind every push-back against the Blacks, even after five decades of the Civil Rights Movement, is an unshakeable belief in the idea of White Supremacy. Read this book to understand why the Black Americans are indignant, angry, and raring to dismantle the structures of epistemic racism. This book is adjusted for readability on all devices and follows the perceived threat of White Supremacists against the growing power of the "colored people." It has assumed a historic significance in understanding the White mentality and their long-held fears.

Articles/Web Resources:

• Chloe Meley. (2019). The Pointless Consumption of Pain in the Era of Trauma Porn. INCITE Journal. http://incitejournal.com/opinion/the-pointless-consumption-of-pain-in-the-era-of-trauma-porn/

Organizations:

• Embracing Equity. (https://embracingequity.org/). A social change agency dedicated to centering racial justice in education through racial and ethnic identity development, critical consciousness, and critical action.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (https://www.naacp.org/). The largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. Our mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). (https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/about.html). SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.
• Transform Harm. (https://transformharm.org/). TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice and includes articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture. (https://www.si.edu/museums/african-american-museum). This museum and website provides information about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives, and how it helped us shape the nation.
• Zinn Education Project. (https://www.zinnedproject.org). The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in classrooms across the country.

Stress in America 2020 Survey

• American Psychological Association (2020).
• A National Mental Health Crisis: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2020/report-october  

The Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

• APM Research Lab (2020, July 22).
• https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

Impact of the Pandemic, Social media, & Racial Trauma on Mental Health. 

• Jennifer Damis-Jones and Kelly Moore. (2022).
• Patch.com. https://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/impact-pandemic-social-media-racial-trauma-mental-health

COVID-19 and Black Communities

• Frueh, S. The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine. 2020, July 9).
• https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/07/covid-19-and-black-communities

'I am not alone': Gen Z Activists Unite amid COVID Pandemic to Confront Racism, Mental Health

• Garcia, S., Gandluri, S., Hampson, R., & Jamil, R. (2021, Aug 23).
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/08/23/gen-z-covid-racism-mental-health-americas-promise-alliance/8204322002/

The Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Americans: Counselor Interventions and Considerations

• Johnson, A. L. Counseling Today. (2020).
• https://ct.counseling.org/2020/04/the-psychosocial-impact-of-covid-19-on-asian-americans-counselor-interventions-and-considerations/#comments

Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates: Associations with race and ethnicity

• Kaufman, H. W., Niles, J. K., & Nash, D. B. Population Health Management. (2020).
• https://doi.org/10.1089/pop.2020.0163

Measuring the economic impact of COVID-19 on survivors of color

• Ruiz, E., Ruvalcaba, Y., Berenstain, N., & Fluegeman, S. Me Too Movement. (2020).
• Covid Impact Report 2020

Socioeconomic status and well-being during COVID-19: A resource-based examination

• Wanberg, C. R., Csillag, B., Douglass, R. P., Zhou, L., & Pollard, M. S. (2020). Journal of Applied Psychology.
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000831