This resource was created by Barbara McVeigh, a Teacher Librarian at Fletcher's Meadow S.S. She was inspired to create this resource from the programming and materials provided by Hot Docs, Docs for Schools, the AGO, the NFB and 49th Shelf.

Cornelius Minor works with educators and community-based organizations to support literacy reform in cities. In this article, he provides a number of concrete examples and ways we can be anti-racist educators and disrupt the system.

"Urgent, controversial and undeniably honest, The Skin We’re In is a wake-up call to complacent Canadians. Racism is here. It is everywhere. It is us and we are it. Following celebrated journalist Desmond Cole as he researches his hotly anticipated book, this documentary from acclaimed director Charles Officer pulls back the curtain on racism in Canada."

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"This film tells the personal story of Rodney Darren Smalls (RDS) and his journey to shake the stereotypes that followed him as a black teenage drug dealer, and channel his entrepreneurship into community benefit."

Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
This is a podcast of Brene Brown talking with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. We talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but we really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.

Here is a Google Drive folder with MANY teaching resources on #AntiRacism and materials from #BLM. This is curated by a variety of teachers for students K-12 and beyond. It's a hard topic, but a very important one.

In this op-ed, Zyahna Bryant — a Charlottesville-based activist, organizer, and social impact strategist — offers insight into how people can take anti-racist action.

The following resources and supports are intended for staff to support students experiencing trauma as a result of anti-Black racism.

Stephanie Fearon in conversation with Black queer mother, child and youth worker, PhD student and researcher Tanitiã Munroe.

"The Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) has put together a resource to accompany the Inaugural CIARS in Conversation talk: Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Schooling and Education. The resource booklet provides books, interviews, webinars, documentaries, articles, reports, toolkits, and resources on the experiences of Black communities in Canada and the impacts of systemic anti-Black racism."

In this lesson, students examine the poetry of Amanda Gorman, who was chosen to read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. Gorman’s poem complemented Biden’s inaugural address and was written to reflect on “the history that we stand on, and the future that we stand for."

Selam Deb’s antiracism work is rooted in the understanding that we must acknowledge and identify the insidiousness of white supremacy before we can dismantle colonial belief systems. The process of undoing, unlearning and re-educating is necessary for white communities to embark on, to support the healing journey for our racialized communities.

"This professional advisory provides advice on ways in which educators can improve their daily practice to proactively address anti-Black racism. The goal is to provide support in creating inclusive and supportive learning cultures that benefit all students, regardless of their identity. Given the focus of school boards and government departments on anti-Black racism, now is an ideal time for OCTs to examine their practice to eliminate the barriers and mitigate the adverse impacts that anti-Black racism causes."