During the Program

"Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race" by Debby Irving

"Waking up White is the book I wish someone had handed me decades ago. My hope is that by sharing my sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, I offer a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As I unpack my own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, I reveal how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated my ill-conceived ideas about race." Debby Irving   

"Privileged" by Kyle Korver 

Kyle Korver, a NBA player for the Milwaukee Bucks tells his story about racism in the NBA.

"This Book is Anti-Racist" by Tiffany Jewell      

Age 11-15      

Who are you?
What is your identity?
What is racism?
How do you choose your own path?
How do you stand in solidarity?
How can you hold yourself accountable?

Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work in 20 carefully laid out chapters. Written by anti-bias, anti-racist, educator and activist, Tiffany Jewell.          

"A Class Divided (1985)" by Jane Elliott

Public TV documentary on the social blue eyes brown eyes racism experiment children session conducted by Jane Elliot in the late 1960s. 

Talks at Google: "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo 

Ijeoma Oluo discusses why it's so hard talk about race and why we must do it anyway. 

Smartest Person in the Room Podcast: Bias Series, Episode. #29: 

A Black & White conversation between friends, "When a Black person says it's about race"

The divide between Black and White in America has never felt greater. Is reconciliation possible? In this series, we're exploring how to cross the divide. You'll hear Laura and her friend Yasmin talk honestly and openly about the issues many of us are scared to address.  

"The Last Children of Mill Creek" by Vivian Gibson 

Vivian Gibson's bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed as "a spare, elegant jewel of a work" and "a love letter to Gibson's childhood." 

"I Will Not Stand Silent" by Anna Purna Kambhampaty

10 Asian Americans Reflect on Racism During the Pandemic and the Need for Equality. 

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brandon Kiely

Age >12

In this novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

"Hair Love" by Matthew A. Cherry

Hair Love, an Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time. 

"How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly towards them" by Verna Myers

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — 

as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how. 

NPR's Code Switch: "Why Now, White People?"

So it seems the country is having a racial reckoning — again. "Why Now, White People" presents us with several answers, do you agree?

"White Fragility: Why it is so hard for white people to talk about racism" by Robin DiAngelo  

The book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. 

"A letter to Roy. He's the Black guy in my picture" by Scot Loyd

A letter that says it all.

"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Age >12

This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race. 

"Monsters and Men" 

A bystander films the death of a black man at the hands of police, which sparks rising tensions in a New York neighborhood as some are moved to take a stand. 

 "The moment I understood White Privilege"  

As the only white person in the audience of a comedy club, Ron was jokingly & relentlessly called out during the show. But, at the end of the show, there was a mic drop moment that Ron will never forget. 

Raising Equity Podcast: "It's like Emmitt Till all over again" 

In this episode Kira and Aaron Banks discuss the facts around several recent police shootings but more importantly the over arching pattern of facts related to anti Blackness and our society’s complacency with black death.