Resources

Books

• 14 Antiracist Books for Kids and Teens Recommended by BIPOC | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com)

• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism in Hardcover by bell hooks

• Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

• Be the Bridge Book by Latasha Morrison

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West by Brown, Dee Alexander

• Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

• Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain

• Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi

• How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley

• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

• How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference by Adam Rutherford

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era by Rita Roberts

• I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Byran Stevenson

• Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo

• Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

• Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity By Michele Norris

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

• Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

• Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power by Kyle Spencer

• Slavery By Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi

• Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

• The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• The Hundred Years’ War: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 

• The Racial Contract by Charles Wade Mills

• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

• The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America in Hardcover by Tracie McMillan

• They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

• Waking Up White by Debby Irving

• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

• White Rage by Carol Anderson

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

 

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Film

• 12 Years a Slave

• Black is King

• Dear White People

• Did You Ever Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

• Do the Right Thing

• Fences

• Fruitvale Station

• Get Out

• Green Book

• Hidden Figures

• If Beale Street Could Talk

• JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

• Loving

• Moonlight

• Queen and Slim

• Selma

• The Hate U Give

• When You Finish Saving the World

• When They See Us

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Documentaries

• 13TH

• Central Park Five

• Colin in Black & White

• Eyes on the Prize

• Hoop Dreams

• I Am Not Your Negro

• O.J.: Made in America

• Quest

• Rat Film

• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland 

• Time: The Kalief Browder Story

• What Happened, Miss Simone?

• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

• The Who We Are Project

 

Fresno Community Projects/Initiatives

• Community Land Use Academy (Every Neighborhood Partnership)

• Fresno Driving Tours (Every Neighborhood Partnership)

• Greenfield Coalition

• Downtown Academy (Downtown Fresno Partnership) 

• Central California Curriculum (Fresno County Historical Society) 

 

National Organizations

• Advancement Project

• African American Policy Forum (AAPF)

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (Las Americas)

• Black Lives Matter (BLM)

• The Black Youth Project (BYP)

• Color of Change 

• Equity in the Center 

• Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) 

• Live Free USA 

• The National (NAACP)

• The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)

• Race Forward

• Septima Project