Race and Equity
Books & Resources

Non-Fiction

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

• What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson

• A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey & Kali N. Gross

History

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. LeBron

• The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan

• The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

• Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgivevness by Jennifer Hawes

• I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi

• Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley

• A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes

• Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

• Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

• Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory

• Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America by Kyle Swenson

Memoir/Biography/Essays

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• When They Call You A Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward

• Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton

• American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by Arjun Singh Sethi

• Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• Thick: and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

• We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

• No Ashes In the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore

• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

Fiction

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Another Country by James Baldwin

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

• The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson

• Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Picture Books

• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

• Saturday by Oge Mora

• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

• The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson

• I Am Enough by Grace Byers

• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

• Hands Up! by Breanna McDaniel

• Islandborn by Junot Diaz

• Radiant Child : The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

• Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews

• Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni

• Words With Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle

Chapter Books

• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

• Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz

• One Crazy Summer by Rita William-Garcia

• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams

• The Jacket by Andrew Clements

Non-Fiction for Kids

• A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter

• This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

• Separate But Never Equal: The Story of of Sylvia Mendez and her Family by Duncan Tonatiuh

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison

• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford

• The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

• Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

Non-Fiction for Parents

• The Anti-Defamation League's Hate Hurts : How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice by Caryl Stern-Larosa and Ellen Hofheimer Bettman

Movies

• The Hate U Give

• Blackkklansman

• Sorry to Bother You

• Loving

• Moonlight

• Selma

• Queen & Slim

• 12 Years a Slave

• Harriet

• Black Panther

• Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

• Get Out

• If Beale Street Could Talk

• Creed

• Girls Trip

• Ray

• Akeelah and the Bee

• The Color Purple

• The Great Debaters

• The Princess and the Frog

• Little

• Fences

TV/Miniseries

• Show Me A Hero

Documentaries

• I Am Not Your Negro

• 4 Little Girls

• NAACP Johnstown

• Unity Coalition of the Southern Alleghenies

• News and Media Literacy Resources (Common Sense Media)

• Social Media Literacy: The Five Key Concepts (Edutopia)