Resources by Topic

Books

• Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Vintage, 1998.

Articles

• CDC. What Are Social Determinants of Health? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021.

• Emerald Staff. King County Officially Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis. South Seattle Emerald, June 2020. 

Articles

• De Luna, Ruby. How Seattle’s Gang of Four Changed the Activism Playbook. KUOW Archive, November 2017. 

Documentaries

• Swart, Cornelius. Priced Out. Collective Eye Films, 2016.

Clips

• Children of the Setting Sun. Ferndale Schools. Youtube, 2020.

Pictures

• Lynching in Coos County (historical marker). 

Food

• Communion, Seattle, WA
• Southern Kitchen, Tacoma, WA

Music

• Beyoncé. Lemonade. Parkwood Entertainment, 2016.

• Lil Nas X. Montero. Sony Music Entertainment, 2021.

• Sankofa Impact’s Spotify

Podcast Episode  

• Jones, Nikole Hannah. 1619. Episode 2. New York Times, 2019.

Documentaries 

• Garbas, Liz. What Happened, Miss Simone? RadicalMedia, 2015. 
• Guttentag, Bill and Sturman, Dan. Soundtrack for a Revolution. Freedom Song Productions, 2009. 

Books

• Kendi, Ibram X. How To Be An Antiracist. One Word, 2019. 
• Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want To Talk About Race. Seal Press, 2018.
• Sue, Derald Wing. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence. Wiley, 2016. 

Articles

• Smithsonian. Talking About Race: Being Antiracist. National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). 

Podcasts

• Holmes, Anna, et.al. Our National Conversations About Conversations About Race. Panoply, 2015.

Organizations 

• Courageous Conversations 
• ​​Sankofa Impact: Virtual Pilgrimages 

Books

• Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.The New Press, 2010. 
• Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. One World, 2015.   
• Wright, Richard. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow. 1937. 

Movies

• Bristol, Stefon. See You Yesterday. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 2019.
• Coogler, Ryan. Fruitvale Station. Lions Gate, 2018.
• Duvernay, Ava. 13th. Kandoo Films, 2016.

Documentary 

• Kunhardt, Peter. True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality. Warner, 2019

TV Shows 

• DuVernay, Ava. When They See Us. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2019 on Netflix.

Clips 

• Stevenson, Bryan. We Need to Talk About an Injustice. TED Talk, 2012.

Movies 

• Parker, Nate. The Birth of a Nation. Bron Studios, 2016. 

Documentaries 

• Gray, Susan and Cram, Bestor. Birth of a Movement. Northern Light Productions, 2017. 
• Nelson, Stanley. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Firelight Media, 2016.
• Olsen, Göran. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. MPI Home Video, 2011.

TV Shows 

• Hampton, Henry. Eyes on the Prize. Seasons 1-2, “All Episodes.” Aired 1987 on PBS.
• Hawke, Ethan. The Good Lord Bird. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2020 on SHOWTIME. 

TV Shows 

• Chopra, Gotham. Shut Up and Dribble. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2018 on SHOWTIME.

People 

• Colin Kaepernick

• Muhammad Ali 

Organizations 

• Women’s National Basketball Association  

Books

• McGhee, Heather. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. One World, 2022. 
• Smith, Clint. How The World Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. Little Brown and Company, 2021

Articles 

• Kottas, Yuliya Parshina, et.al. What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed. New York Times, May 2021.

Documentaries   

• Kunhardt, Peter. King in the Wilderness. Kunhardt Films, 2018. 

Clips

• McGhee, Heather. Racism Has a Cost for Everyone. TED Talk, 2019. 
• Vox Explained. Racial Wealth Gap. Netflix, 2020. 

Podcasts

• Jones, Nikole Hannah. 1619. Episode 2, “The Economy That Slavery Built.” New York Times, 2019.

Books 

• Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury USA, 2016.
• DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018. 

Articles 

• McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Peace and Freedom, 1989.

Clips 

• DiAngelo, Dr. Robin. Dr. Robin DiAngelo Discusses ‘White Fragility’.Youtube, 2018.  
• McIntosh, Peggy. How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion. TEDxTimberland Schools, 2012. 

Podcasts 

• Biewen, John. Seeing White. Scene on Radio, 2017.

Books

• Davis, Fania E. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice. Good Books, 2019. 

Articles 

• Coates. Ta-Nehisi. The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic, 2014.  

Books 

• Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chump Change, 1903. 
• X, Malcolm and Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ballantine Books, 1987.

Movies 

• Coogler, Ryan. Black Panther. Marvel Studios, 2018.

Podcasts 

• Morris, Wesley, and Wortham, Jenna. Still Processing. New York Times, 2016. 

Articles 

• Barkley Brown, Elsa. Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom. University of Chicago, 1994. 
• Newkirk II, Vann R. How Shelby County v. Holder Broke America. The Atlantic, July 2018. 

Documentaries 

• Lowman, Sonia. Teach Us All. Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes, 2017.

Podcasts

• Joffe-Walt, Channa. Nice White Parents. New York Times, 2020. 

Movies 

• Lee, Spike. Do The Right Thing. Universal Studios, 1989.

Books

• Collins, Patrician Hill. Black Feminist Thought. Routledge, 2008. 
• Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. Crossing Press, 2007.  
• Truth, Sojourner. Ain’t I a Woman? Penguin Books, 2021. 

Clips 

• Lafayette College. Kimberlé Crenshaw Discusses Intersectional Feminism. Youtube, 2015.
• National LGBTQ Task Force. Black Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith. Reina Gosset, Charlene Carruthers. Youtube, 2016. 

Books 

• Halberstam, David. The Children. Ballantine Books, 1999.  
• LaFayette, Bernard. In Peace And Freedom: My Journey in Selma. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 
• McKinstry, Carolyn. While The World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement. Tyndale House Publishers, 2013. 
• Zelner, Bob. The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. NewSouth Books, 2019. 

Movies 

• Duvernay, Ava. Selma.  Harpo Films, 2014.
• Nelson, Stanley. Freedom Riders. Firelight Media, 2010
• Nelson, Stanley. Freedom Summer.  Firelight Media, 2014. 

Documentaries 

• Hudson, Robert. Mighty Times: The Children’s March. Southern Poverty Law Center, 2004. 

Podcasts 

• Grace, Andrew Beck, et.al. White Lies. NPR, 2019. 

Speeches 

• King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther. Address at the Conclusion of the Selma To Montgomery March 1965. Montgomery, AL, 1965. 

Short Reads 

• King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther. Letter From Birmingham Jail. Birmingham, AL, 1963. 

TV Shows  

• Gates Jr., Henry Louis. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2013 on PBS. 
• Gates Jr., Henry Louis. Black America Since MLK: Still I Rise. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2016 on PBS. 

Clips 

• Equal Justice Initiative. Slavery to Mass Incarceration. YouTube, 2015.

Classes

• Clint Smith. Crash Course: Black American History.
• Master Class: Black History, Freedom, and Love. 

Books 

• Kendi, Ibram X. Antiracist Baby. Kokila, 2020.
• Lane, Sharayah. ABC’s of Grateful. Independently Published, 2022.

Articles 

• Martin, Michel. How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race. NPR, June 2020. 
• Smith-Kang, Sonia. 31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance. Culturas, 2019. 

Podcasts 

• Brandt, Cindy Wong. Parenting Forward: Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wong Brandt. Parenting Forward, 2020. 

Organizations 

• The Conscious Kid

Movies 

• Jenkins, Barry. If Beale Street Could Talk. Annapurna Pictures, 2018.  

TV Shows 

• Ray, Issa. Insecure. Seasons 1-5, “All Episodes.” Aired 2016 on HBO. 

Websites 

• Audre Lord Project
• Color of Change
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
• The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
• NAACP 
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Books 

• do Nascimento, Abdias. Brazil, Mixture or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People. Majority Pr, 1989. 
• Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Poeples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2015.
• Ortiz, Paul. An African-American and Latinx History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2018.

TV Shows 

• McQueen, Steve. Small Axe. Season 1, “All Episodes.” Aired 2020 on Amazon Prime.

Books

• Bay, Maya. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Belknap Press, 2021. 

Articles 

• Gidigbi, Stephanie. How Planes, Trains and Automobiles Worsened America’s Racial Divide. Politico, June 2020. 
• Sayej, Nadja. ‘Forgotten by Society’- How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad. The Guardian, July 2019. 

Documentaries 

• Burns Ric. Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America. PBS, 2021. 

Podcast Episode

• Lewis, Sukey. On Our Watch. Episode “Litigation Reveals New Details in Police Shooting of Oscar Grant.” NPR, 2021.

Interactive Experiences  

• Slave Voyages.

Books 

• Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969.
• Arnold, Jenna. Raising Our Hands. BenBella Books, 2020.
• Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time.  Vintage, 1992.
• Boggs, Grace Lee. The Next American Revolution: Activism For the 21st Century. University of California Press, 2012. 
• Cooper, Dr.Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Picador USA, 2019.

• Cullors, Patrisse. An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World. St. Martin’s Press, 2022.

• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J.B.Lippincott, 1937. 

• Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White. W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
• Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir. Scribner Publishing Company, 2019.
• Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness. Atria Books, 2014. 
• Moraga. Cherríe. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Persephone Press, 1981.  
• Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Vintage, 2007.
• Ritchie, Andrea J. Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon Press, 2017. 
• Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy. Source Books, 2020.
• West, Cornel. Race Matters. Beacon Press, 1993.
• Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns. Vintage, 2011. 

Articles 

• Coaston, Jane. The Intersectionality Wars. Vox, 2019. 
• Kendi, Ibram X. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? The Atlantic, May 2020. 
• Martin, Courtney. Where Do I Donate? Why is the Uprising Violent? Should I Go Protest? The Bold Italic, June 2020. 
• Sewer, Adam. America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us.  The Atlantic, May 2020. 
• Vargas, Jose Antonio. My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant. The New York Times Magazine, June 2011. 

Podcasts 

• Crenshaw, Kimberlé. Intersectionality Matters! With Kimberlé Crenshaw. AAPF, 2019.
• Demby, Gene. Code Switch. NPR, 2016.
• Drew, Chevon & Elyass, Hiba. Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast. Race Forward, 2019. 
• McKesson, DeRay. Pod Save the People. Crooked Media. 2017. 

  Documentaries 

• Ross, RaMell. Hale County This Morning, This Evening. Louverture Films, 2018. 
• Peck, Raoul. I Am Not Your Negro. Magnolia Pictures, 2016.