I’ve been trying to find the words for this post, but instead of trying to share my voice, I am sharing resources for learning that I have been seeing all over social media. Every time I see a new resource, I add it to this list and I will continue to do so, even after this post is published. I am working my way through and still have a long way to go, so please only use this list as a starting point. Please reach out with any content you have found helpful that I should add to this list.
BLM Watch:
- 13th- Netflix (Originally found by @theskimm)
- American Son- Netflix (Originally found by @pellpix)
- Baltimore Rising- HBO (Originally found by @theskimm)
- Dear White People- Netflix (Originally found by @pellpix)
- If Beale St Can Talk- Hulu (Originally found by @pellpix)
- King in the Wilderness- HBO (Originally found by @pellpix)
- Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story- Amazon Prime (Originally found by @theskimm)
- Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland- Hulu & HBO (Originally found by @theskimm)
- See You Yesterday- Netflix (Originally found by @pellpix)
- The Hate You Give Us- Cinemax (Originally found by @pellpix)
- When They See Us- Netflix (Originally found by @theskimm)
BLM Read:
- A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins (link below)
- Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Originally found by @theskimm)
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- Good Talk by Mira Jacob (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- How To Be An Antiracist by Ivram X. Kendi (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou (link below)
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (Originally found by GoodReads)
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie (link below)
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad (link below)
- Multiplication is For White People by Lisa Delpit
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold (link below)
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (link below)
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Originally found by @theskimm)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Originally found by GoodReads)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Originally found by @theskimm)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Originally found by GoodReads)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Originally found by @theskimm)
- The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward (Originally found by @avidreaderpress)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Originally found by GoodReads)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Originally found by @theskimm)
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (link below)
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Originally found by @theskimm)
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga (link below)
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (link below)
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (Originally found by GoodReads)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo (Originally found by @theskimm)
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (Originally found by GoodReads)
- “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Originally found by GoodReads)
- Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Originally found by GoodReads)
BLM Listen:
- 1619 by New York Times (link below)
- About Race (link below)
- Code Switch by NPR (link below)
- Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (link below)
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast (link below)
- Pod For The Cause from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights (link below)
- Pod Save the People by Crooked Media (link below)
- Seeing White (link below)
*This link provides more anti-racist resources.