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Intrigued? Skeptical? Inspired? Confused? Social justice is constantly evolving to incorporate new ideas and new voices. Deepen your knowledge and stay in the loop on what various communities are experiencing by looking through some of the articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, and other resources below.

Below is our comprehensive resource list, organized by topic. Click on a topic below to get started. We will continually be adding content so keep checking back!

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GENERAL ANTI-OPPRESSION

WHITE SUPREMACY

INTERSECTIONALITY

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

DISABILITY JUSTICE

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

FOR CHILDREN

SYSTEMIC RACISM AND HOW IT IMPACTS BLACK COMMUNITIES & COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

PRIVILEGE

LGBTQIA+

COMBATTING ISLAMOPHOBIA

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

VOTING RIGHTS

POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE CRIMINAL "JUSTICE" SYSTEM

SOLIDARITY / ALLYSHIP

FOR NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

DECOLONIZATION

ARTS & CULTURE

SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS TO FOLLOW

GENERAL ANTI OPPRESSION RESOURCES

ACTIVITIES

Harvard's Project Implicit

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.

Take the Assessment
Bias Cleanse

Created seven-day bias cleanses on race, gender and anti-LGBTQ bias that will provide you with daily tasks that will help you begin to change your associations.

Cleanse your Bias
Check Yo'Privilege

``Check Yo'Privilege`` aims to teach how power and privilege can affect our lives - even when we are not aware it is happening. There's no blame on those who have more power, privilege or those who receive more help in achieving their goals.

Check Yo'Privilege
Check Yo'Power

“Check Yo’Power” is an activity where you can see a visual representation of how much of the institutional power and space the identities you were born into and/or chose take up.

Check Yo'Power

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Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack – Peggy McIntosh

This paper is a great demonstration of unpacking one’s own privileges. This article can be used as a starting point to begin conversations about privilege. Reviewing our own invisible knapsacks can help us all become more aware of moments of privilege, and use that awareness to start conversations with others.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

Freire argues that oppressed people can regain their humanity in the struggle for liberation, but only if that struggle is led by oppressed people. This introduces the central problem of the book: how to create an education system with oppressed people, for oppressed people, that will help them become more free.

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So You Want to Talk about Race – Ijeoma Oluo

Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to ``model minorities`` in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

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11 Ways Race Isn't Real

Vox

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How to be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi

Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

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The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes – Vox

Every time someone struggles to explain or select a racial identity, every time we have a public debate about should check get to check box, and every time a person's looks don't seem to match up with what they call themselves, it's a reminder that race is a social and political construct.

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I am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck

This documentary film is based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript 'Remember This House', and explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.

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On Reverse Racism

Aussie Standup Comic Aamer Rahman breaks down colonization, enslavement, imperialism, systemic inequity, war, internalized racism and reverse racism – all in less than three minutes.

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Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee

This film explores how racial inequality drives conflict in a predominantly African-American community on the hottest day of the summer.

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Code Switch

Code Switch is hosted by journalists of color, and tackles the subject of race head-on. They explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.

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SYSTEMIC RACISM AND HOW IT IMPACTS BLACK COMMUNITIES & COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

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The Case for Reparations – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes how the legacy of slavery extends to geographical and governmental policies in America and calls for a ``collective introspection`` on reparations.

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The 1619 Project – The New York Times

The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative that began in August 2019, 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.

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Ibram X. Kendi

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.

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America's Cities Were Designed to Oppress – Bryan Lee Jr, Citylab

Bloomberg CityLab

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System Racism for Dummies

A summary of systemic racism is broke down to show those who are in denial that there is in fact a massive amount of racism here in the U.S.

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Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

In this series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America—and our nation as a whole.

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The Case for Reparations Goes to Congress

In 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover testified about reparations in Washington on Juneteeth and debated whether we should just cut checks to the descendants of slaves or invest in social services that help them.

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1619

“1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery.

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POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE CRIMINAL "JUSTICE" SYSTEM

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The End of Policing – Alex S. Vitale

This book attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice— even public safety. Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

The author tirelessly researches both the legal history of America's Jim Crow past and the current legal policies that contribute to the mass incarceration of black people, contextualizing the rates of incarceration among blacks and critiques of social and economic inequality.

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Policing Is Doing What It Was Meant to Do. That’s the Problem.

The New York Times

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson

Stevenson's work providing legal aid to death row inmates exposes truly inhumane, unjust practices and astonishing legal carelessness often fueled by outright prejudice. Just Mercy does not stop at reportage, but examines the costs to the individual, the family, the community, and society at large of these practices.

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They Can't Kill us All – Wesley Lowery

Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination.

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America – Elizabeth Hinton

Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

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13th – Ava DuVernay

This documentary film is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime. The film takes an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

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LA 92 – Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin

Through rarely seen archival footage, this film examines the tumultuous period in the verdict in the Rodney King trial that sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, twenty-five years after.

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Just Mercy

Based on a true story, world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

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Whose Streets? – Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis

An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.

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Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler

This film is an American biographical drama, based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale district station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in Oakland.

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``The Systems that Protect the Police`` (Podcast Episode, The Daily – The New York Times)

Why misconduct procedures are rarely enough to discipline officers using excessive force.

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Is it Time to Defund the Police? (Podcast Episode, Deconstucted – The Intercept)

What are advocates of “defunding the police” really arguing for, and could it work? Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discusses the future of policing in the United States.

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WHITE SUPREMACY

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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor – Layla E. Saad

This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

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When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels

Rachel Cargle

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What is White Supremacy?

Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez

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10 Insidious Ways White Supremacy Shows Up in Our Everyday Lives

Everyday Feminism

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White Supremacy has never been Fringe

NPR Code Switch

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Licence to Hate: White Supremacy in the US – Al Jazeera

How did the racist ideology behind recent US white supremacist attacks seep into the country's mainstream discourse?

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``Don't Let White Supremacy Win`` (Podcast Episode, Smartsistah's Podcast)

If it can't beat you it joins you. Don't let white supremacy change the narrative of the current rebellion against racism.

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``Interview with Former Skinhead Christian Picciolini`` (Podcast Episode, Speak Out with Tim Wise)

An interview with Christian Picciolini, one of America’s first Nazi skinhead crews and a committed white supremacist for years. Now he helps racists leave hate behind and works to inoculate a new generation of young people from the poison of prejudice, and he’s got some ideas about how to respond to surging white nationalism in America.

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PRIVILEGE

ACTIVITIES

Check Yo'Privilege

``Check Yo'Privilege`` aims to teach how power and privilege can affect our lives - even when we are not aware it is happening. There's no blame on those who have more power, privilege or those who receive more help in achieving their goals.

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Understanding White Privilege

Francis E. Kendall

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Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

Huffington Post

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How to recognize your white privilege - and use it to fight inequality – Peggy McIntosh

Many of us believe that we're living in a meritocracy, deserving of what we have and compassionate toward those with less. But that's not true: white people have been given a headstart and ongoing advantages due to the color of their skin, while people of color suffer from equally arbitrary disadvantages, says scholar and activist Peggy McIntosh. She explains what led her to recognize her privilege — and how it can be used by those with power to ensure a fairer life for others.

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``Talking about Privilege`` (Podcast Episode, Dear Sugars)

In this podcast episode, the Sugars reply to two letter writers who are facing different forms of privilege.

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SOLIDARITY

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How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’

Mia McKenzie, Black Girl Dangerous

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A Manifesto

Patrice Cullors

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A Guide Towards Allyship

TransWhat?

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75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice

Medium

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10 Things all ``Allies`` Need to know

Everyday Feminism

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How to be a (Male) Feminist Ally

Elizabeth Pickett, Feminist Current

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Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies

Racial Equity Tools

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10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday Racism

Mic

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5 Tips for Being an Ally – Chesca Leigh

If you’re not black and would like to show your support of the black community, Franceshca Ramsey, AKA Chescaleigh, has five helpful tips on how to be an ally. Her tips are helpful for supporting any marginalized community, not just those based on race.

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``Safety-Pin Solidarity: With Allies, Who Benefits?`` (Podcast Episode, NPR Code Switch)

This episode explores the conundrums of ally-ship with activist and blogger ShiShi Rose, who helped organize the Women's March, Taz Ahmed, co-host of the GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast, the Reverend Timothy Murphy, and our editor, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams. We also talk with the co-founder of a black-owned company that teaches white people how to be better allies, for a fee.

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INTERSECTIONALITY

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Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex – Kimberlé Crenshaw

This article examines how the tendency to treat race and gender as mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis is perpetuated by a single-axis framework that is dominant in antidiscrimination law and that is also reflected in feminist theory and antiracist politics.

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Women and Black Lives Matter: An Interview with Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain & Kaavya Asoka, Dissent Magazine

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The Intersectionality Wars

Jane Coaston, Vox

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The Urgency of Intersectionality – Kimberlé Crenshaw (YouTube)

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term ``intersectionality`` to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

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Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

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LGBTQIA+

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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More – Janet Mock

Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. The book is a powerful vision of possibility and self-realization, pushing us all toward greater acceptance of one another—and of ourselves—showing as never before how to be unapologetic and real.

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The Black Lives Matter Movement Must Include Trans People

Teen Vogue

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Why I Left the Mainstream Queer Rights Movement

Barbara Smith, The New York Times

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More Colour, More Pride: A conversation on why the 8-stripe flag is essential

Gay Times

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Too Straight, White & Corporate: Why Some Queer People are Skipping SF Pride

The Guardian

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QTPOC Chat 4: Racism Within QTPOC Community – Black Girl Dangerous

This video is a conversation about racism within queer and trans people of color communities.

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Pose

Pose is a TV drama spotlighting the legends, icons and ferocious house mothers of New York’s underground ball culture, a movement that first gained notice in the 1980s.

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Paris is Burning – Jennie Livingston

This documentary film, filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the ``Golden Age`` of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America.

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When Black Lives Matter Meets Gay Pride – Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times talks to Gerald Garth and Brandon Anthony, who are helping to organize the All Black Lives Matter.

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``Stonewall 50: Whose Movement is it Anwyay?`` (Podcast Episode, – Intersectionality Matters)

June 28th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the stonewall uprising, the resistance that is widely perceived as the catalyst to the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the united states. As pride month reaches an exuberant crescendo this weekend, questions persist about how to best foreground the lives and concerns of members of the LGBTQ+ community whose experience is filtered through the interstices of more than one form of oppression. On this episode of Intersectionality Matters, host Kimberlé Crenshaw ponders these questions with two of the movement’s torchbearers: Barbara Smith, trailblazing black feminist critic and co-founder of the Combahee River Collective, and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll, co-founder and executive director of UK black pride. Tune in for their fascinating insights on living in the overlapping margins of race, gender and sexuality and the future of LGBTQ activism.

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FOR NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR

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Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations about the Anti-Blackness in our Communities

DoSomething.org

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How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Own Culture

Angie Jaime, Teen Vogue

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Five questions for Indians (who think they are) in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Scroll.in

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Why All Latinx Have a Duty to Demand Justice and Support Black Lives Matter

PopSugar Latina

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20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now

Michelle Kim, Medium

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6 Ways Asian-americans can tackle Anti-Blackness in Their Families

Kim Tran, Everyday Feminism

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South Asians and Black Lives

Deepa Iyer, Medium

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We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd

Hasan Minhaj, Patriot Act

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``Solidarity and the Uprising for Black Liberation`` (Podcast Episode, South Asian Solidarity Initiative)

SASI collective members discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, our experiences with the protests in New York City during a pandemic, thoughts on the numerous solidarity groups in formation and how Hindutva groups have been using #blm to further fascist agendas.

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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

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One Brother Got DACA, One Didn’t. It Made All the Difference.

Miriam Jordan, The New York Times

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Immigrants' Rights – Know your Rights

American Civil Liberties Union

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Facing Possible Deportation, Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks Before ICE Check-in – DemocracyNow!

Ravi Ragbir is executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City. This morning, right after our broadcast, Ravi heads for a check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He plans to go to the meeting, even though he may not be released. Ravi legally immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago more than 25 years ago, but a 2001 wire fraud conviction made his green card subject to review. Even though he is married to a U.S. citizen and has a U.S-born daughter, the government refuses to normalize his status.

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Why is Legal Immigration to the U.S. Almost Impossible? – Decoded, MTV

With all the talk of immigration, there’s one question that seems to persist: why can’t immigrants just come the U.S. legally? And the answer is simple... it’s incredibly complicated. It can take several years and thousands of dollars to work through a byzantine legal process with no guarantees that you’ll get a green card. So what does it take to become a legal U.S. Citizen?

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Indefensible Podcast Series

Indefensible is a podcast series brought to you by the Immigrant Defense Project. Over five episodes, producer Will Coley will bring you stories from people who are standing up and holding out; fighting to be with their families. They say they’re here to stay.

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What Would Happen If We #AbolishICE? – Crooked Media

Julissa Arce is joined by UCLA Law professor Hiroshi Motomura to discuss the origins of ICE, the role it plays in government and whether the movement to abolish ICE is possible.

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COMBATTING ISLAMOPHOBIA

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The Riz Test: how Muslims are misrepresented in film and TV

The Conversation

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How Islamophobia was Ingrained in America's Legal System long before the War on Terror

Mariam Elba, The Intercept

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Why this has Been the Worst Year for American Muslims since 9/11

Linda Sarsour, The Washington Post

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The Muslims are Coming!

This film follows a band of Muslim-American comedians as they visit big cities, small towns, rural villages, and everything in between to combat Islamophobia!

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Riz Ahmed Speech on Representation to UK Parliament

Speech given to The UK Parliament about representation. Representation is fundamental to what expect from our culture. When people don't feel represented, you get extremism, division, and lose out on our full potential. Things can get very ugly very fast.

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``The war on Muslims`` (Podcast Episode, The Ezra Klein Show)

Journalist Mehdi Hasan discusses the rise of global Islamophobia.

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DISABILITY JUSTICE

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“Disability Justice” is Simply Another Term for Love

Leaving Evidence

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Doing Social Justice: 10 Reasons to Give Up Ableist Language

Huffington Post

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Mia Mingus on Disability Justice

An interview with Mia Mingus, one of the leading articulators about what Disability Justice is about.

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Organizing in a Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom

This podcast episode shares stories and insights from disability justice organizers that all of us can learn from and apply to organizing in our current conditions.

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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

This book challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

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We Need to be Talking About Standing Rock

Ari Laurel, Hyphen

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Remember the Sand Creek Masacre

Ned Blackhawk, The New York Times

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Taking a Stand at Standing Rock

David Archambault II, The New York Times

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Why the Founder of Standing Rock Sioux Camp Can’t Forget the Whitestone Massacre

Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, YES! Magazine

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For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die

Glen Coulthard, Voices Rising (Indigenous Nationhood Movement)

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Dakota 38

In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. Now, four years later, Jim and a group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away. This film was created in line with Native healing practices. In honoring this ceremony, we are screening and distributing “Dakota 38″ as a gift rather than for sale.

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We Shall Remain

A groundbreaking mini-series and provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. Five 90-minute documentaries spanning three hundred years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective.

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All My Relations

A podcast to discuss our relationship a Native peoples – to land, ancestors and to each other.

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CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

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What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm

Maisha Z. Johnson, Everyday Feminism

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Urban Outfitters is Obsessed with Navajos

NativeAppropriations.com

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What is Cultural Appropration? – Origin of Everything (YouTube)

What is culture? Can it even be appropriated? Is there a difference between appreciation and appropriation?

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``Cultural Appropriation… It’s Not Just a White Thing`` (Podcast Episode, LatinoUSA)

What does cultural appropriation look like when it occurs between people of color? We dive into the hairstyle that has taken the internet by storm the past couple of weeks: Chinese-American Jeremy Lin’s dreadlocks. You’ll also hear a roundtable about instances of cultural appropriation in pop culture, and get into how a group of indigenous advocates are working with the U.N. to make cultural appropriation illegal.

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DECOLONIZATION

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Whose Land is it Anyway? A manual for Decolonization

This handbook, supported by the British Columbia Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE), is designed to give you that knowledge. It brings together some of the most important Indigenous academics, activists and allies to explore the impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples and to look at paths toward decolonization that can right those wrongs and may, some day, lead us toward true reconciliation.

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To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words

Steven Newcomb, YES! Magazine

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Decolonize your Mind – Soumya Polavarapu

Colonization does not lie entirely in history; its ghost still hovers over colonized countries, and still influences the collective consciousness of their people. Soumya, a 4th-year American-Indian student at the University of Glasgow, explores where that ghost lies today, how it affects people on a personal level, and how we can finally work towards clearing it for good. 4th year Biochemistry and Art History Student from Juniata College. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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``Decolonizing the Mind`` (Podcast Episode, League of Badass Women Podcast)

This podcast episode looks at unseen privileges, colorism, and how racism is a form of colonization of the mind. Specifically, we hear a perspective about how race is perceived in Puerto Rico, and how that effects relations with the US.

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ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

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What is Environmental Racism? – AJ+

Racism isn't just about police brutality or the criminal justice system. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a textbook case of environmental racism, and we’ll explain how it's playing out throughout the country.

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A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind – Harriet A. Washington

A powerful and indispensable look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.

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Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist

Leah Thomas, Vogue

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“It’s About Terrorizing Us”: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality

Carol Linnitt, YES! Magazine

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Black Lives Matter Protests Spotlight Environmental Racism

Ben Piven, Al Jazeera

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Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow – The Atlantic

African Americans face disproportionate rates of lead poisoning, asthma, and environmental harm. Staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II argues that discrimination in public planning is to blame. “Pollution and the risk of disaster are assigned to black and brown communities through generations of discrimination and political neglect,” says Newkirk II. The environment is a system controlled and designed by people—“and people can be racist.”

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``How Environmental Racism Takes Advantage of Minority Communities`` (Podcast Episode, This Green Earth)

An interview with Dr. Dorceta Taylor, the author of the book: ``Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility``. Dr. Taylor has spent decades researching the history of the environmental movement and focuses on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion within environmental groups.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation – Jeff Chang

This book is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. The authors explore hip hop's beginnings up to the present and provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created.

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That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader – Murray Forman & Mark Anthony Neal

This anthology addresses the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the ``hip-hop nation,`` debates of ``street authenticity,`` social movements and activism, aesthetics, technologies of production, hip-hop as a cultural industry, and much more. Further, this new edition also includes greater coverage of gender, racial diversity in hip-hop, hip-hop's global influences, and examines hip-hop's role in contemporary politics.

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The Forgotten Story of Pure Hell, America's First Black Punk Band – Cassidy George

Cassidy George, Dazed Digital

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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk ABout Hip Hop-and Why it Matters – Tricia Rose

A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, the book calls for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip hop – not a sanitized vision of the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide.

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Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music

This book provides an incisive historical and contemporary overview of all the major popular musical genres defined as ‘Latin.’ An insightful, coherent, eloquent, and engaging analysis of the hybridity of Latino musical practices, carefully documenting the ‘transnational’ musical interactions between Latinos in the United States and in their countries of origin.

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Race, Rock and the Rolling Stonesl How Rock and Roll Became White

Jack Hamilton, Slate

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Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop – Imani Perry

Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a transnational musical form, the author advances a powerful argument that hip hop is first and foremost black American music. At the same time, she contends that many studies have shortchanged the aesthetic value of rap by attributing its form and content primarily to socioeconomic factors. Her innovative analysis revels in the artistry of hip hop, revealing it as an art of innovation, not deprivation.

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Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico – Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

The author shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.

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Inside Reggaeton's Unsung Black History

Neena Rouhani, The Rolling Stone Magazine

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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notse to a Tribe Called Quest – Hanif Abdurraqib

This book digs into the group's history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Throughout the narrative, the author connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact.

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Why is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

Wesley Morris, The New York Times

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Gay Black Men Helped Create EDM. Why do Straight White Men Dominate It?

Katie Bain, Billboard

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Rize – David LaChapelle

This documentary film documents the culture and competition surrounding two dance forms known as Clowning and Krumping.

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Still Processing (Podcast, The New York Times)

Step inside the confession booth of Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, two culture writers for The New York Times. They devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that move them — to tears, awe and anger. Still Processing is where they try to understand the pleasures and pathologies of America in 2020.

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Keep It (Podcast, Crooked Media)

Each week, Ira Madison III, Louis Virtel, and Aida Osman are joined by comedians, journalists, actors, musicians, activists, politicians and more to discuss the latest ways pop culture and entertainment are intersecting with politics and society. Expect accents (is that Catherine Deneuve?!), Oscars trivia, and endless amounts of shade.

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Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney

In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, the author investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns.

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America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters

Lawrence Goldstone, The New Republic

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Latino Reflections on Racism and the 2020 Election

LatinoDecisions.com

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Journey to Power: The History of Black Voters, 1976 to 2020

Steve Kornacki, NBC News

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Voter Suppression Is a Looming Threat in the 2020 Elections

Nylah Burton, Rewire News

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The Fight for the Right to Vote in the United States – Nicki Beaman Griffin, TEDEd

In the United States today, if you are over eighteen, a citizen, and the resident of a state, you can vote (with some exceptions). So, how have voting rights changed since the first election in 1789? Nicki Beaman Griffin outlines the history of the long fight for a more inclusive electorate.

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``POC Vote in 2020`` (Podcast Episode, In The Thick)

The 2018 midterms were the highest turnout rate for a midterm election in recent history, with voters of color turning out in greater numbers than in 2014, according to a Pew Research Center. And in 2020 voters of color will make up a third of all eligible voters, the largest breakdown yet with the Latino community in particular becoming the biggest POC demographic. But this is more than numbers, POC communities are historically underreported in media coverage during election season and often overlooked by candidates. We discuss the POC vote in 2020 and civic engagement among communities color beyond this election cycle.

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Interview with Stacy Abrams (Podcast Episode, The Axe Files with David Axelrod)

Stacey Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial nominee and founder of Fair Fight 2020, joins David to talk about inequities in Georgia's public health infrastructure, voter suppression and her efforts to remedy it, her own journey in public service, and vice presidential speculation.

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FOR AGES 0 TO 3

Antiracist Baby – Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism, and provides the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age.

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The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats

Universal in its appeal, the story reveals a child’s wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. The Snowy Day was the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero

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FOR AGES 3 to 7

A is for Activist – Innosanto Nagara

This is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for.

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Saturday - Oge Mora

In this heartfelt and universal story, a mother and daughter look forward to their special Saturday routine together every single week. But this Saturday, one thing after another goes wrong--ruining storytime, salon time, picnic time, and the puppet show they'd been looking forward to going to all week. Mom is nearing a meltdown...until her loving daughter reminds her that being together is the most important thing of all.

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Who We Are!: All About Being the Same and Being Different (Let's Talk about You and Me) – Robie H. Harris, Nadine Bernard Westcott

As Nellie, Gus, baby Jake, and their parents enjoy their excursion at Funland, they — and young readers — notice that people are the same as one another in lots of ways, and different in lots of ways too. Accessible, humorous, family-filled illustrations; and straightforward text come together to help children realize why it’s important to treat others the way they want to be treated and the way you want to be treated — whether a person is a lot like you or different from you, a good friend or someone you have just met or seen for the first time.

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All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La Historia de Por Qué Tenemos Diferentes Colores de P – Katie Kissinger

Celebrate the essence of one way we are all special and different from one another--our skin color This bilingual (English/Spanish) book offers children a simple, scientifically accurate explanation about how our skin color is determined by our ancestors, the sun, and melanin. Reading this book frees children from the myths and stereotypes associated with skin color and helps them build positive identities as they accept, understand, and value our rich and diverse world.

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Shades of People – Shelley Rotner, Sheila M. Kelly

A celebration of the diversity of everyday life, this exploration of one of our most noticeable physical traits pairs simple text with vibrant photographs. At school, at the beach, and in the city, diverse groups of children invite young readers both to take notice and to look beyond the obvious.

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Brick by Brick – Heidi Woodward Sheffield

Papi is a bricklayer, and he works hard every day to help build the city, brick by brick. His son, Luis, works hard too--in school, book by book. Papi climbs scaffolds, makes mortar, and shovels sand. Luis climbs on the playground and molds clay into tiny bricks to make buildings, just like Papi. Together, they dream big about their future as they work to make those dreams come true. And then one Saturday, Papi surprises Luis with something special he's built for their family, brick by brick.

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They, She, He easy as ABC – Maya and Matthew Smith-Gonzalez

Inclusive pronouns are featured alongside the alphabet. An introduction to the many different ways people identify and use pronouns. Shows that including everyone is all part of the dance.

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FOR AGES 4 to 8

Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch

Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace's high-flying imagination.

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It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity – Theresa Thorn, Noah Grigni

Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither or somewhere in between. A straightforward exploration of gender identity, providing young readers and adults with the vocabulary to discuss the topic with sensitivity.

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The Gender Wheel: a story about bodies and gender for every body – Maya Christina Gonzalez

This body positive book is a powerful opportunity for a supportive adult and child to see a wide range of bodies, understand the origins of the current binary gender system, how we can learn from nature to see the truth that has always existed and revision a new story that includes room for all bodies and genders. The Gender Wheel offers a nature-based, holistic non-western framework of gender in a kid-friendly way.

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Let's Talk About Race – Julius Lester

In this acclaimed book, the author shares his own story as he explores what makes each of us special. A strong choice for sharing at home or in the classroom.

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Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice – Marietta Collins, Marianne Celano, Ann Hazard, Jennifer Zivozin

This book follows two families -- one White, one Black -- as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers with guidelines for discussing race and racism with children, child-friendly definitions, and sample dialogues.

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Hands Up! – Breanna J. McDaniel, Shane W. Evans

A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. As she grows, she lives through everyday moments of joy, love, and sadness. And when she gets a little older, she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march, where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.

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Julian is a Mermaid – Jessica Love

While in the subway with his abuela, Julian sees three women spectacularly dressed and he wants to dress up just like them. But what will his Abuela think? A story about the power of being seen and affirmed,.

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My Princess Boy – Cheryl Kilodavis, Suzanne DeSimone

Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy. This heartwarming book is a call for tolerance and an end to bullying and judgments. The world is a brighter place when we accept everyone for who they are.

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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage: The Fight for Interracial Marriage – Selina Alko, Sean Qualls

This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state's laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents' love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court - and won!

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The Skin You Live In – Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko

This lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. This delightful picturebook offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children.

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I Am Human: A Book of Empathy – Susan Verde, Peter H. Reynolds

A hopeful meditation on all the great (and challenging) parts of being human, I Am Human shows that it’s okay to make mistakes while also emphasizing the power of good choices by offering a kind word or smile or by saying “I’m sorry.” At its heart, this picture book is a celebration of empathy and compassion that lifts up the flawed fullness of humanity and encourages children to see themselves as part of one big imperfect family—millions strong.

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Layla's Head Scarf – Miriam Cohen, Ronald Himler

This timely story highlights a challenge that many children face in today's multicultural environment. Layla, a new girl in first grade, wears a headscarf but it doesn't take long for the others to welcome her.

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Remember: The Journey to School Integration – Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of “separate but equal” schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American history and its relevance to us today.

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The Colors of Us – Karen Katz

Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.

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FOR AGES 5 to 10

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew up to Become Malcolm X – Ilyasah Shabazz, AG Ford

Before he became the black nationalist leader known as Malcolm X , Malcolm Little was a boy who loved fishing and butterflies. His daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, aided by AG Ford's vivid paintings, outlines a childhood marked by love and tragedy.

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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist – Cynthia Levinson and Vanessa Brantley Newton

Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you’re never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks was confident and bold and brave as can be, and hers is the remarkable and inspiring story of one child’s role in the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Day you Begin – Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lopez

A beautiful and inclusive story that encourages children to find the beauty in their own lives and share it with the world. Each child feels very alone until they begin to share their stories and discover that it is nearly always possible to find someone a little like you.

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We Are All Born Free Mini Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures – Amnesty International

Now in a mini edition! The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10th December 1948. It was compiled after World War Two to declare and protect the rights of all people from all countries. This beautiful collection, published 60 years on, celebrates each declaration with an illustration by an internationally-renowned artist or illustrator and is the perfect gift for children and adults alike.

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The Wedding Portrait – Innosanto Nagara

This is an essential book for kids about standing up for what's right. Here are stories of direct action from around the world that are bookended by the author's wedding story. He and his bride led their wedding party to a protest, and were captured in a photo by the local newspaper kissing in front of a line of police just before being arrested.

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FOR AGES 7 to 10

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness – Anastasia Higginbotham

An honest explanation about how power and privilege factor into the lives of white children, at the expense of other groups, and how they can help seek justice.

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When a Bully Is President/Cuando El Presidente Es Un Buli: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times/La Verdad y La Creatividad En Tiempos Opresivos – Maya Gonzalez

touches on bullying in the founding history of the US, how that history may still be impacting kids and families today, and ways to use creativity and self respect in the face of negative messages for all marginalized communities. Communities reflected include Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Chicanx, LGBTQ Americans, disabled Americans, Americans who identify as women and girls, Muslim and Sikh Americans and Asian Americans.

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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions – Chris Baron & Don Tate

You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy.

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FOR AGES 8 to 12

Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship – Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls

How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners.

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Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library – Carole Boston Weatherford, Eric Velasquez

All of the book's details paint Schomburg as an admirable, flawed, likable, passionate man whose lasting legacy, Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, opens its doors to all who would learn more about the people its founder knew had been left out of the written record. A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African-Americans and books about them.

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History – Vashti Harrison

Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history. Among these women, you'll find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things - bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for generations of girls and women to come. Whether they were putting pen to paper, soaring through the air or speaking up for the rights of others, the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn't always accept them.

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The Moon Within – Aida Salazar

Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. And her best friend's exploration aof what it means to be genderfluid. But most of all, her mother's insistence she have a moon ceremony, an ancestral Mexica ritual, when her first period arrives.

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FOR AGES 10 to 13

The Crossover (The Crossover Series) – Kwame Alexander

The Crossover is a masterful mix of rhythm and heart that tells the story of two brothers navigating the deep waters of love, loyalty, and championship play. Alexander’s verse is fluid and electric, poignant and wise, skillfully chronicling main character Josh’s tough lessons as he comes to realize that “true champions / learn / to dance / through / the storm.

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The Skin I'm in – Sharon Flake, Jason Reynolds

Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?

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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work – Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand

Gain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of racism that we are still experiencing, and give you the courage and power to undo it. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you learn more about yourself and racial oppression. 20 activities get you thinking and help you grow with the knowledge. All you need is a pen and paper.

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FOR AGES 14 and Over

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity – Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi

The authors reveal the lines that separate us based on race or other perceived differences and how telling our stories--and listening deeply to the stories of others--are the first and most crucial steps we can take towards negating racial inequity in our culture. Featuring interviews with over 150 Americans accompanied by their photographs, this intimate toolkit also offers a deep examination of the seeds of racism and strategies for effecting change.

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Making It Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict – Marilee Peters

Making It Right relates true stories of young people who are working in innovative ways to further peaceful resolution of conflict and to heal past wounds. The book begins with individual injustices, such as bullying, and works up to collective ones, like wars. Each chapter begins with a dramatic fictional account, making the topic engaging and relevant for kids.

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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row – Susan Kuklin

This book takes readers inside America's prisons and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in prison and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. This is a searing, unforgettable read, and one that could change the way we think about crime and punishment.

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The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

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Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices – Mitali Perkins

Listen in as ten YA authors—some familiar, some new—use their own brands of humor to share stories about growing up between cultures. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poignant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.

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