Resources For Active Anti-Racism: A TDO Curation

More than a year ago, the murder of George Floyd served as a tipping point for the senseless brutality and violence towards African Americans. This outcry for justice and systemic reform, steered by the Blacks Lives Matter movement, made the entire world take notice. Nationwide, individuals and businesses made anti-racism pledges and vowed to better educate themselves and be active allies in the face of injustice.

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist

• Article 'Not Racist' Is Not Enough: Putting In The Work To Be Anti-Racist by Eric Deggans
• Article 6 ways to be antiracist, because being 'not racist' isn't enough by Rebecca Ruiz
• Video How to Get Serious About Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace by Janet Stovall
• Book How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Article The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston

Stories About and By Black People

• Film Pariah Written and Directed by Dee Rees (Netflix)
• TV Show Dear White People Created by Justin Simien (Netflix)
• Film Moonlight Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins (Free on Kanopy)
• TV Show Atlanta Created by Donald Glover (Hulu)
• Film If Beale Street Could Talk Written by Barry Jenkins and James Baldwin, Directed by Barry Jenkins (Amazon or Hulu)
• Film Get Out Written and Directed by Jordan Peele (Amazon)

Systemic Racism and White Privilege

• Article Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Article I’m a Black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet. By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
• Article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Article The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying by Adam Serwer
• Article She survived Hurricane Sandy. Then climate gentrification hit by Amir Khafagy
• Book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

Mass Incarceration and Policing 

• Documentary 13th Written by Spencer Averick and Ava DuVernay, Directed by Ana Duvernay (Netflix)
• Podcast Episodes  The Crime Machine Part I and Part II by Reply All - an absolutely fascinating history of a well-meaning technology that led to even more rampant racial profiling in New York City and the country. 
• Book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• Book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Book Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

Queerness and People of Color

• Article For trans women of color facing 'epidemic' of violence, each day is a fight for survival: 'I'm an endangered species… but I cannot stop living' by Ignacio Torres, Jessica Hopper, and Juju Chang
• Article Two Recent Murders of Black Trans Women in Texas Reveal a Nationwide Crisis, Advocates Say by Gina Martinez and Tara Law
• Article How Queer Women of Color Are Systemically Excluded From Pride Celebrations by Genelle Levy

Feminism and People of Color

• Article When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
• Article The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment by Keisha N. Blain
• Book Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Video Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers

Raising Anti-Racist Children

• Article How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race by Michel Martin
• Article Teaching Your Child About Black History Month by Nefertiti Austin
• Article Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good by Katrina Michie
• Podcast Episode Parenting Forward: ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
• Podcast Fare of the Free Child - a weekly podcast centering around Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color, with a particular interest in unschooling and the Self-Directed Education movement
• Podcast Episode Integrated Schools: “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• Article 20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good by Autumn Allen, Krista Aronson and the Diverse BookFinder Team, and Megan Dowd Lambert

How to Continue Your Activism and Allyship Every Day

• Article Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin
• Article Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Article 7 Ways Non-Black POCs Can Be Better Allies by Raquel Reichard
• Article Dear anti-racist allies: Here's how to respond to microaggressions by Kristin Rogers
• Podcasts to Follow:

• Seeing White - a podcast that dissects “Just what is going on with white people...Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?”

• 1619 - from the New York Times comes “an audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.”

• Intersectionality Matters! - “a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory”

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast - co-hosts Chevon and Hiba speak with various leaders in racial justice and about strategies for social, institutional, and political change

• Pod Save the People - in this podcast, DeRay Mckesson takes a unique look at the news “with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color”

• Code Switch - a weekly podcast from NPR that explores how race “ impacts every part of society-- from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between”

Our Overlooked History of Systemic Racism

Juneteenth

• Article So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth? by Derrick Bryson Taylor
• Article Juneteenth Is a Reminder That Freedom Wasn’t Just Handed Over by Brianna Holt
• Podcast Episode Happy Juneteenth! by Today, Explained

Tulsa Massacre

• Article 3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre by Eric Deggans
• Article What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed by Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, et al.
• Article How The Tulsa Race Massacre Caused Decades of Harm by Jeremy Cook and Jason Long
• Podcast Episode The Burning of Black Tulsa by the Daily 

The Tuskegee Experiment

• Article ‘You’ve got bad blood’: The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment by DeNeen L. Brown
• Video The Tuskegee Study by Black History in Two Minutes (or so)

Other Lists and Resources to Check Out

• Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Reading List 

• Anti-RacismProject.Org Resource List

• People to Follow and Books to Read by Jenna Arnold

• Book Consumed: On colonialism, climate change, consumerism & the need for collective change by Aja Barber (coming this September)

• You can order today from these Black-owned independent bookstores. by Corinne Segal

• Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Right Now (and Always) by Claire Handscombe

Please note that this article is a living document and will be updated periodically. Last Updated on June 7, 2021. If you would like to suggest additions to this list, please email your suggestions to info@twodaysoff.com.