Resources for READing about racial justice

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1. ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to be Antiracist by Eric Deggans

2. 10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools
   Most white teachers have no intention of being racist, yet unconscious bias can cause harm no matter our intentions.

3. Climbing the White Escalator by Betsy Leondar-Wright

4. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

5. Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran

6. Guide to Allyship by Amélie Lamont

7. It’s Not Just the South: Here’s How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy
   by Sarah van Gelder

8. Making America White Again by Toni Morrison

9. Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro

10. What White Children Need to Know About Race
    by Ali MIchael and Elenora Bartoli

11. Caught Up In God by Willie James Jennings

12. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X Kendi

13. Trouble the Narrative By Austin Channing Brown.
    There is a common narrative that the civil rights movement succeeded
    through only non-violent protest. But we need to trouble that narrative.

14. Here's Why It Hurts When People Say, "All Lives Matter" by L-Mani S. Viney
    A national youth advocate and educator explains why mattering means so much to black Americans.

15. Reflections From a Token Black Friend by Ramesh A. Nagarajah

16. The American Nightmare by Ibram X. Kendi

17. My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates

18. ‘Me and White Supremacy’ Helps You Do The Work of Dismantling Racism
    NPR’s Eric Deggans interviews author and antiracism educator Layla F. Saad about her book.

19. What Systemic Racism Means And the Way It Harms Communities
    NPR's Noel King speaks with Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want To Talk About Race, about systemic racism and how it affects people every day.

20. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (story version)
    Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

21. 1619 Project
    Project by the New York Times Magazine for the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.