Education Materials

Articles to Read

Books to Read

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  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander.
  • Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. Barbara Applebaum. 
  • I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing. Maya Angelou
  • The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin.
  • Giovanni’s Room. James Baldwin.
  • Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements. Charlene A. Carruthers.
  • Queenie. Candace Carty-Williams.
  • Other Side of Paradise. Staceyann Chin.
  • Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Brittney Cooper.
  • Women, Race, & Class. Angela Y. Davis
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race. Robin DiAngelo
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Bad Feminist. Roxane Gay
  • Homegoing. Yaa Gyasi.
  • Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Patricia Hill Collins.
  • Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Bell Hooks.
  • Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Bell Hooks.
  • No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies. E. Patrick Johnson.
  • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America. Ira Katznelson
  • Stamped from the Beginning. Ibram X Kendi.
  • How to be an Anti-Racist. Ibram X Kendi.
  • Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond. Marc Lamont Hill
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong. James Loewen.
  • Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography. Audre Lorde.
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Summer We Got Free. Mia Mckenzie.
  • Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Jonathan Metzel.
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi. Anne Moody
  • No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America. Darnell L. Moore. 
  • Beloved. Toni Morrison.
  • The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Khalil Gilbran Muhammad
  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston.
  • Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
  • Becoming. Michelle Obama.
  • So You Want To Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo
  • Since I Laid my Burden Down. Brontez Purnell.
  • Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses. Lawrence Ross.
  • The Color of Law. Richard Rothstein. 
  • Me and White Supremacy. Layla F. Saad
  • Assata, an Autobiography. Assata Shakur.
  • Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson
  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki.
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum.
  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Real Life. Brandon Taylor.
  • The Hate You Give. Angie Thomas.
  • In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Alice Walker.
  • The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. Anders Walker.
  • The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel Wilkerson
  • Native Son. Richard Wright.
  • A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn.  

Videos to Watch

TV Shows and Movies to Watch

  • The 13th (Documentary) — Netflix
  • American Son (Movie) — Netflix
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Documentary) — Rent
  • Dear White People (TV Show & Movie) — Netflix & Rent
  • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Documentary) — Netflix
  • Do the Right Thing (Movie) —  Rent
  • Fruitvale Station (Movie) — Rent
  • The Hate U Give (Movie) — Hulu 
  • I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary) — Rent
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie) — Hulu
  • Just Mercy (Movie) — Rent
  • The Kalief Browder Story (Documentary) — Netflix
  • Loving (Movie) —  Hulu
  • Moonlight — Netflix
  • Mudbound (Movie) — Netflix
  • The Murder of Fred Hampton (Documentary) — Rent
  • Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) — PBS
  • Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story — Rent
  • Selma (Movie) — Rent
  • Teach Us All (Documentary) — Netflix
  • When They See Us (Television Series) — Netflix
  • Whose Streets? (Documentary on Ferguson Uprising) — Rent

Podcasts to Listen To