Societal Must-Reads

Working While Black: Stories from black corporate America

FORTUNE

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Karen Yuan

21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis

Buzzfeed

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Heben Nigatu

Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person

HuffPost

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Gina Crosley-Corcoran

How White People Got Made

Medium

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Quinn Norton

What You Can Do Now: A Black Veteran’s Perspective on George Floyd

Medium

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Kendrick Roy

Books

How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

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

Michelle Alexander

Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Library - Harvard University

Harvard University

Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Brittney Cooper

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

Me & White Supremacy

Layla Saad

Raising Our Hands

Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness

Janet Mock

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century

Danny Glover, Grace Lee Boggs, and Scott Kurashige

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Rosario Morales

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Ira Katznelson

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

Videos (Short)

Short clips, perfect for coffee-breaks.

Why “I’m Not Racist” Is Only Half the Story

7 minutes

Robin DiAngelo explains the function of white fragility in maintaining racial hierarchy.

New York Times Op-Docs on Race

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Multiple videos with a range of racial and ethnic perspectives on the lived experience of racism in the US.

White Bred

5 minutes

Excellent quick intro to how white supremacy shapes white lives and perception.

CBS News Analysis: 50 States, 50 Different Ways of Teaching America's Past

5 minutes

Ibram X. Kendi reviews current history curriculum production and use across the U.S.

I Didn't Tell You

7 minutes

Ever wonder what a day in the life of a person of color is like? Listen to this poem, written and spoken by Norma Johnson.

Confronting ‘Intergroup Anxiety’: Can You Try Too Hard to Be fair?

5 minutes

Explores why we may get tongue tied and blunder when we encounter people from groups unfamiliar to us.

Racism is Real

3 minutes

A split-screen video depicting the differential in the white and black lived experience.

This is Us

3 minutes

Eddie Glaude explains why blaming current racial tensions on Donald Trump misses the point.

Videos (Medium)

Medium-length clips, ideal for lunch breaks.

How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

19 minutes

TED Talk by Vernā Myers, encourages work vigorously to counter balance bias by connecting with and learning about and from the groups we fear.

The Danger of a Single Story

18 minutes

TED Talk by Chimamanda Adiche, offers insight to the phenomenon of using small bits of information to imagine who a person is.

The Urgency of Intersectionality

19 minutes

TED Talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw that asks us to see the ways Black women have been invisibilized in the law and in media.

How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time

10 minutes

TED Talk by Baratunde Thurston that explores patterns revealing our racist framing, language, and behaviors.

Indigenous People React to Indigenous Representation in Film And TV

15 minutes

Conversation with a diverse range of Indigenous people by FBE about media depictions of Indigenous people, Columbus day, and Indigenous identity.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race

12 minutes

TEDx talk by Jay Smooth that suggests a new way to think about receiving feedback on our racial blindspots.

Videos (Long)

Long-form content, best to digest at home on the couch.

13th

1 hour 40 minutes

Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay about the connection between US Slavery and the present day mass incarceration system.

When They See Us

4 hours

Four-part Netflix series by Ava DuVernay about the wrongful incarceration and ultimate exoneration of the “Central Park Five.”

Slavery by Another Name

1 hour 30 minutes

PBS documentary challenging the idea that slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation.

Just Mercy

2 hours 17 minutes

The 2019 film, which chronicles criminal justice reform in Alabama, stars Michael B. Jordan as lawyer Bryan Stevenson.