Book Suggestions*
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil – Lezley McSpadden
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street – Matt Taibbi
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present – Robyn Maynard
Me and White Supremacy – Layla F Saad
White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
* You can check out abebooks.com to help find used copies of these if you don’t want to use amazon / indigo and can’t get out to a bookstore.
Podcast Suggestions:
1619
United States of Anxiety
Code Switch
The Nod
While Black
Documentary Film Suggestions:
Let it Fall
I am not your Negro
13th
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Freedom Riders
The Cut: How to Help & Where to Donate
College of Social Justice: How White People Can Help the BLM movement
How to Support BLM as a non-white person
White Folks: How to support BLM without making it about you
11 Ways to help the BLM movement (teen vogue)
Mid-Haven Magazine Resources with petitions, resources, and reading lists