Racial Justice Resources
BOOKS
- America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- How To Be an Antiracist by Dr. lbram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- We Keep Us Safe by Zach Norris
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
- Angela Davis’ book “Are Prisons Obsolete?“— Click here for the pdf version of the book
- My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Practice by Michelle C. Johnson
ARTICLES, ANALYSIS & REFERENCE MATERIALS
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Black Liberation Reading List by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Bryan Massingale, “The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can Do About It,”
- Bryan Massingale, “The Only Thing That Matters”
- Cardinal Cupich, “It’s Time For National Reconciliation”
- Check In on Your Black Employees, Now
- The Cost of Code Switching
- Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists: How to Be an Antiracist
- How Catholics Can Work for Racial Justice
- How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
- The Intersectionality Wars
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus on racism resource page
- On Being a Black American Biglaw Associate
- “Required Reading, A Black Catholic Syllabus” from US Catholic
- Talking About Race
- ‘The terror of wearing both a press badge and black skin’
- Toward a Racially Just Workplace
- We White Liberals Need to Face Our Internalized Racism
- White People, Here’s How We Can Try to be Better Allies and Proactively Anti-Racist
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
- Confronting Prejudice : How to Protect Yourself and Help Others
OTHER MEDIA
America Media Interviews, Fr. Bryan Massingale
Forum with Father Massingale and St. Bart’s
Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice
On Being with Krista Tippett: Resmaa Menakem “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence”
Online Course about race, inequality and social justice
Sesame Street Town Hall on Race
Speech/Talk: POOR PEOPLE’s CAMPAIGN
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives by Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett and Charlene Carruthers at The National LGBTQ Task Force
The Classical Theatre of Harlem has curated a list of anti-racism resources, including podcasts, film and TV, literature, and information and tools for conducting anti-racism assessment and training at the individual and organizational level, here.
2011 interview (pre-Black Lives Matter) Angela Davis
Netflix Movie 13th by Ava DuVernay
White People Have a Very Very Serious Problem – Toni Morrison on Charlie Rose