Talking about Race to Your Children:  What Should I Say?

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

to Support Anti-Racist Practices

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Books for Children

• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison (at BPL) (at Frugal Bookstore)

• All Because You Matter by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier

• The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali, illustrated by Hatem Aly (at BPL)

• I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Bryan Collier (at BPL) (at Amazon)

• Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford

• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

• It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Julie Morstad

• Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Méndez, illustrated by Jaime Kim

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López

• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

• Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki

• My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

• I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland

• Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed, illustrated by Stasia Burrington

• Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Keith Mallett

• Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"--this stirring book celebrates the Black National Anthem and how it inspired five generations of a family.

• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes

• Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

• Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro

• Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Laura Freeman

• When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard

• That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez

• We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac

• Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal

• Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks, illustrated Colin Bootman

• A Different Pond by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui

Books for Adults

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (at BPL) (at Frugal Bookstore)

• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• Divided Sisters by Midge WIlson and Kathy Russell

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts

• Locking Up Our Own by James Forman

• The  Miners Canary by Lani GUiner and Gerald Torres

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Film 

• "Just Mercy" (justmercy.com)

• "13th" (Netflix)

• "American Son" (Netflix)

• "Dear White People" (Netflix) 

• "If Beale Street Could Talk" (Hulu)

• "Kind in the Wilderness" (HBO)

• "See You Yesterday" (Netflix)

• "The Hate You Give" (Cinemax)

• "When They See Us" (Netflix)

• "Roots" (Hulu)

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Podcasts 

• "1619" by NY Times

• "About Race"

• "Code Switch" by NPR

• "Intersectionality Matters!" by Kim Crenshaw

• "Momentum: A Rae Forward Podcast"

• "Pod For the Cause" (Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

• "Pod Save the People" (Crooked Media)

• "Seeing White"

• "Parenting Forward Podcast" - Episode 5: ‘Five Pandemic Parent Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt

• "Fare of the Free Child"