Anti-Racism Resources

(updated August 2023)
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Overview on Race in America, to get us started.

Here is where we can share resources with each other.  Please add things you've come across in the comments.

Movies, Videos, Interviews & Podcasts

RACE MATTERS: AMERICA IN CRISIS
PBS NewsHour made a special about recent events

 The Jim Crow of the North - An hour long PBS special about the history of race in the Twin Cities 

How to Be Anti-Racist, an interview with Ibram X. Kendi, author of Being Anti-Racist

Brene Brown with Austin Channing Brown, author of, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For  Whiteness

Talking About Whiteness, On Being Interview with Eula Bliss, author of the essay "White Debt"

How to Be A White Ally and Practice Anti-Racism, MPR News with Angela Davis & Karen Zamora, with guests: Priska Neely, a reporter and producer at Reveal who recently published an essay called “Please stop ‘checking in on me to see if I’m OK.’” , Sarah Bellamy, the artistic director at Penumbra Theatre Co. in St. Paul. She recently published an essay called “Performing Whiteness.”, and Debby Irving, a racial justice educator and author of "Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race." She also created the 21-day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.
  

Lists of Recommended Movies & Links to Free Movies

• This article shares movies and videos currently streaming for free (Vanity Fair)
• List of Movies On Race Every White Person Needs To Watch (Bustle)
• Another list of movies accessible for free right now (LA Times)

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Short Clips

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man:
Emmanual Acho has started answering white people's questions in this new youtube series with episodes added regularly.  ​(He answers questions he receives in email.  He creates a "safe space" to ask anything).

The Real Story of Rosa Parks & Why We Need To Confront Myths About Black History
A TED Talk by David Ikard

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Websites with lots of resources

Being Anti-Racist 
​from the National Museum of African American History & Culture

Mapping Prejudice is a research project out of the U of M that tracks the hidden history of racism and privilege in the urban landscape.
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MPD150 has a very extensive history of policing in Minneapolis. 

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Books

Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace, by Oshetta Moore

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, by Elizabeth Wilkerson. (Examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter

The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones

So You Want To Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

The Other Half Was Never Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward Baptist.

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown.

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In-depth Experiences

Faith and Racial Justice: Changing Systems and Structures
Just Faith ministries -8 hour immersion experience for communities

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History

Milestones in Black History A helpful overview of American history from 1600 to current. African Americans have faced enslavement, discrimination, and segregation in this country, but that's not the whole story.  African Americans have shaped our country's arts, culture, science, sports, and politics. Honoring this nation's history and the people who have gone before means telling the whole story.
This resource is provided to us by Ella M - who found it while doing a project on Black history in America, in honor of her grandmother who has been passionate about civil rights.  Ella shared it with us so that we could learn from it too. Thank you, Ella!

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Resources for Kids

Jen Martin shared:
This was a video on Robby's Seesaw assignments today. I think it can be a resource if needed for children and some adults quite frankly.
Something Happened In Our Town

One of Robby's favorites is Ordinary People Change the World Audiobooks Set. They are biographies of historical figures that start as young children and tells their story into adulthood. It introduces younger children 5-9 to many topics in history including equality for all. Robby really likes: Billie Jean King, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Sonia Sotomayor. I like that they have Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, Jim Henson, Jane Goodall and Gandhi. There are some hard moments like in the Rosa Parks biography. However, it is well done. It is worth every penny.
Ordinary People Change the World (audio and print)
https://www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com/
https://www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com/Books/
https://www.booksontape.com/the-bestselling-kids-series-ordinary-people-change-the-world-comes-to-audio-listen-to-clips/
https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-People-Change-World-Gift/dp/0803741367

These Books Can Help you Explain Racism & Protest to Your Kids
NYTimes has a really helpful article filled with resources by age. (If you can't access the article, let Kara know).