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Books:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
by Isabel Wilkerson
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
by Angela Davis
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla F. Saad
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government
Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
This Book Is Anti-Racist
by Tiffany Jewell
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
White Rage
by Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Women, Race, & Class
by Angela Davis
Articles:
“11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In The Wake Of Police Brutality” (by Brittany Wong, Huffington Post)
“103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice” (by Corinne Shutack)
“Being Antiracist” (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
“Not Racist is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to be Antiracist”
(Eric Deggans, NPR)
“The 1619 Project” (Various Contributors, The New York Times)
“When Black People are in Pain, White People Just Join Book Clubs”
(by Tre Johnson, The Washington Post)
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”
(by Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic)
More Resources
These lists reflect this moment in the Festival’s learning and evolution. These resources will expand as we continue to put our commitments into action.
