Unlearning racism is a lifelong journey. I found the following movies and books helpful. Please write with your favorites and I will add them to the list.
SUGGESTED VIEWING
12 Years a Slave -2013- by Steve McQueen
13th- 2016- by Ava Duvernay
A Better Life - 2011- by Chris Weitz
Colin in Black & White-2021- Ava Duvernay & Colin Kaepernick
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity - 2012 -by Shakti Butler
Dope - 2015 - by Rick Famuyiwa
Fruitvale Station - 2013 - by Ryan Coogler
Good Trouble-2019-2021-Joanna Johnson Bradley Bredeweg Peter Paige
Goodbye Uncle Tom - 1971 - by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi
No Le Digas a Nadie - 2015 - by Mikaela Shwer
On My Block-2019-2021- Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez, and Jeremy Haft
Race: The Power of an Illusion - 2003 - by the California Newsreel
When They See Us - 2019- By Ava Duvernay
White People - 2015 - by Jose Antonio Vargas
SUGGESTED READING
Ain’t I A Woman-2014-bell hooks
Americanah - 2013 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States- 2015- Dr. Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz
Autobiography of Malcolm X-1965- by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence-2021- Anita Hill
Between the World and Me - 2015 - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents-2020- Isabel Wilkerson
Citizen: An American Lyric - 2015- Claudia Rankine
Clarity & Connection-2021-Yung Pueblo
Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)Comfortable Talking about Racism-2021-Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard
Dying Of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland -2019 - Jonathan M. Metzl
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - 2018- Brittney Cooper
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds- 2017- adrienne maree brown
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood- 2021- Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, Chanel Craft Tanner
Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power-2018-Anne Russo
Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination-2018- by Lily Zheng and Alison Fogarty
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot - 2020- Mikki Kendall
Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out -2020-Aaron Glantz
How to Be Black - 2012 - Baratunde Thurston
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community-2020-Mia Birdsong
Invisible Man - 1952 - Ralph Ellison
Killers of the Dream-1949-Lillian Smith
Know My Name: A Memoir-2020-Chanel Miller
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment - 2018- Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy- 2018- Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - 2017 - Resmaa Menakem
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)-2020-Dean Spade
Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It-2021-Jessie Daniels
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good - 2019- adrienne maree brown
Reach: Stories by Black Men in the Beloved Community - 2015 - Edited by Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change-2017-Ellen Pao
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace-2021-Minda Harts
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love-2020-Valarie Kaur
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - 2007- Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk about Race-2018-Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America- 2016- by Dr. Ibram Kendi
Strange Fruit-1944-Lillian Smith
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - 1994 - bell hooks
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story-2021-created by Nikole Hannah Jones
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights-2021-Dorothy Wickenden
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma-2015-Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Color of Courage: Crushing Racism in Corporate America-2021-Cindi Bright
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America-2017 Richard Rothstein
The Color of Water - 1996 - James McBride
The Fire Next Time - 1963 - James Baldwin
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table-2019-Minda Harts
The New Jim Crow - 2010 - Michelle Alexander
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls -2020- Mona Eltahawy
The Souls of Black Folk - 1903 - W.E.B. Du Bois
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together-2021-Heather McGhee
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism -2021-Kyla Schuller
The Warmth of Other Suns - 2010 - Isabel Wilkerson
The Wall Between -1999- Anne Braden
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slaveowners in the American South -2019-by Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers
There There -2019-Tommy Orange
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition - 2015 - Edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future-2017- Thomas M. Shapiro
Unbought and Unbossed - 1970- Shirley Chisholm
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement-2021-Tarana Burke
Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory -1991- Philomena Essed
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All-2020-Martha S. Jones
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance- 2020- Linda Sarsour
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice-2021-Mariame Kaba
What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy - 2012 - Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D.
What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly-2020-Arianna Davis
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir- 2018- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son - 2004 - Tim Wise
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth About Our Racial Divide- 2016- Dr. Carol Anderson
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass- 2017- Dr. Leigh Fought
Women, Race & Class - 1983- Angela Y. Davis
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography-1982-Audre Lorde