Talking about Race to Your Children: What Should I Say?
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
to Support Anti-Racist Practices
Books for Children
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Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison (at BPL) (at Frugal Bookstore)
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All Because You Matter by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier
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The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali, illustrated by Hatem Aly (at BPL)
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I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Bryan Collier (at BPL) (at Amazon)
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford
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Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
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It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Julie Morstad
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Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Méndez, illustrated by Jaime Kim
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The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López
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Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
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Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki
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My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
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I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
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Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed, illustrated by Stasia Burrington
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Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Keith Mallett
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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.
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Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
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Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
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Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
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The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro
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Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Laura Freeman
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When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
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That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez
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We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
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Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
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Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks, illustrated Colin Bootman
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A Different Pond by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui
Books for Adults
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White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (at BPL) (at Frugal Bookstore)
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How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
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Divided Sisters by Midge WIlson and Kathy Russell
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
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Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
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Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
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The Miners Canary by Lani GUiner and Gerald Torres
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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Film
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"Just Mercy" (justmercy.com)
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"13th" (Netflix)
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"American Son" (Netflix)
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"Dear White People" (Netflix)
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"If Beale Street Could Talk" (Hulu)
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"Kind in the Wilderness" (HBO)
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"See You Yesterday" (Netflix)
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"The Hate You Give" (Cinemax)
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"When They See Us" (Netflix)
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"Roots" (Hulu)
Podcasts
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"1619" by NY Times
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"About Race"
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"Code Switch" by NPR
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"Intersectionality Matters!" by Kim Crenshaw
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"Momentum: A Rae Forward Podcast"
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"Pod For the Cause" (Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
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"Pod Save the People" (Crooked Media)
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"Seeing White"
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"Parenting Forward Podcast" - Episode 5: ‘Five Pandemic Parent Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt
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"Fare of the Free Child"