List of books, tv shows and podcast to educate ourselves from being anti-racism

By Naylii Sophea

As we can see the climate of racism in America and worldwide has reached a boiling point and the proof can be seen obviously anywhere and everywhere we look. With the overwhelming amount of media and information comes a lot of questions about how each of us individually can educate ourselves in order to take the proper actions necessary to fulfill the promise of a better future for all.

So for tonight, we are sharing a list of shows, podcasts, and reading materials that will hopefully help and guide us in educating ourselves and learning our role in this movement of fighting for #BLM. We need to let them know that we hear them, we see them and we will always be right here for them. So if any of you have some additional materials you think that are useful, powerful and will be beneficial for everyone. Feel free to share with us in the comment section, down below.

Books

1. Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

2. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

3. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

4. How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

5. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

6. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

7. 7. Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

8. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

9. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

10. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

11. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

12. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

13. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

14. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

15. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

16. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

17. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

18. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

TV Shows

1. 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

2. American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

3. Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

4. Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

5. Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

6. Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

7. I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

8. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

9. Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

10.King In The Wilderness  — HBO

11. See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

12. Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

13. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

14. The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

15. When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Podcasts

1. 1619 (New York Times)

2. About Race

3. Code Switch (NPR)

4. Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

5. Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

6. Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

7. Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

8. The Combahee River Collective Statement

Articles

1. “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

2. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

3. ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

4. The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

5. “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

6. Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

7. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

8. “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)