Black History & Experience

Articles & Opinion

7 Things Feminists of Color Want You To Know, Gina M. Florio, https://www.bustle.com/articles/120684-7-things-feminists-of-color-want-white-feminists-to-know

1619 Project, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Bryan Stevenson on How the US Can Heal, Ezra Klein, https://www.vox.com/21327742/bryan-stevenson-the-ezra-klein-show-america-slavery-healing-racism-george-floyd-protests

Bryan Stevenson on The Frustrations Behind the George Floyd Protests, Issac Chotiner, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bryan-stevenson-on-the-frustration-behind-the-george-floyd-protests?fbclid=IwAR1LwW5rZc8pyBvvCWMKSjONSNwbbV_kE_BX3jrTL1mG92xePqudVLj1OJE

Dear White Boss, Keith A. Carver and Ancella B. Livers, https://hbr.org/2002/11/dear-white-boss

Dealing with Two Pandemics, Catherine Carlock, https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/06/08/colette-phillips-on-racism-in-boston.html

Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system, Karina Zapata, https://calgaryjournal.ca/2020/02/27/decolonizing-mental-health-the-importance-of-an-oppression-focused-mental-health-system/

Definition of Intersectionality, Nicki Lisa Cole, https://www.thoughtco.com/intersectionality-definition-3026353

Emotional Tax: How Black Women and Men Pay More At Work and How Leaders Can Take Action, Catalyst, https://www.catalyst.org/research/emotional-tax-how-black-women-and-men-pay-more-at-work-and-how-leaders-can-take-action/

Far More Unites Black and Jewish Americans Than Divides Them, Ethan B. Katz and Deborah Lipstadt, https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/opinions/black-celebrities-anti-semitism-anti-racism-katz-lipstadt/index.html

How the 1619 Project Took Over 2020, Sarah Ellison, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/1619-project-took-over-2020-inside-story/2020/10/13/af537092-00df-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html

How to start decolonising your business, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-to-start-decolonising-your-business-141750

Intersectionality: When Identities Converge, Catalyst, https://www.catalyst.org/research/intersectionality-when-identities-converge/

It's time to decolonize that syllabus, Yvette Dechavez, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-decolonize-syllabus-20181008-story.html

Majority of Minority Female Lawyers Considering Leaving Law, ABA Journal, https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/most-minority-female-lawyers-consider-leaving-law-aba-study-explains-why?utm_source=salesforce_230567&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=salesforce_230567&sc_sid=00586378&utm_campaign=&promo=&utm_content=&additional4=&additional5=&sfmc_j=230567&sfmc_s=50727240&sfmc_l=1527&sfmc_jb=186&sfmc_mid=100027443&sfmc_u=7404230

Never Think You're Not Supposed to Be There, Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/a-concerto-is-a-conversation-great-migration.html

She Coined the Term 'Intersectionality' Over Thirty Years Ago. Here's What It Means to Her Today, Katy Steinmetz, https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality/

The Brutal Truth Every White Feminist Needs to Hear, Julie Zeillinger, https://www.mic.com/articles/125084/the-brutal-truth-every-white-feminist-needs-to-hear

The Intersectionality Wars, Jane Coaston, https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro, Fredrick Douglas, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html

Understanding Intersectional Identities, Joe Kort, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-the-erotic-code/201906/understanding-intersectional-identities

Walking While Black, Garnette Cadogan, https://lithub.com/walking-while-black/

We're In a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope. john.a.powell, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/glimmers-hope

What Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me, Tina Curiel-Allen, https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-decolonization-is-and-what-it-means-to-me

What does it mean to decolonize a museum?, Elisa Shoenberger, https://www.museumnext.com/article/what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-a-museum/

What It Means to Decolonize the Library, Nicole A. Cooke, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/85127-what-it-means-to-decolonize-the-library.html

When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels, Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a22717725/what-is-toxic-white-feminism/

White Feminism is Toxic to the Actual Feminist Movement, Carlos Olvera, https://www.theodysseyonline.com/white-feminism-toxic

Blogs & Newsletters

Code Switch, NPR, https://www.npr.org/newsletter/code-switch

Colorlines, Race Forward, https://www.colorlines.com/subscribe#

Race/Related, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters

Where are the Black American Cheesemakers? Cheese Shop of Salem, https://www.thecheeseshopofsalem.com/cheese-2/blackamericancheesemakers

Books

A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Born a Crime, Trevor Noah

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Family Properties, Beryl Satter

On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay McKesson

Racing to Justice, john.a.powell

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

The Abolition of White Democracy, Joel Olson

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X

The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBridge

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

The Third Reconstruction, Rev. Dr. William Barber

This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria E. Anzaldúa et al, Editors

We Can't Talk About THAT at Work!, Mary-Frances Winters

White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, Louise Michele Newman

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Tatum

Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis

Writings of James Baldwin, James Baldwin

Documentaries

Becoming, Michelle Obama, creator

Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap, Ezra Klein et al, producers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM

Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, John Ridley, director, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j96sTP8-wKk

Strong Island, Yance Ford, Director

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, David France, director

Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Jenner Furst, director

What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus, director

When They See Us, Ava Duvernay, Director

Exercises

Learning for Justice, https://www.learningforjustice.org/topics

Teaching Peoples' Histories, Zinn Education Project, https://www.zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/explore-by-theme

Movies & Television

12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, Director

13th, Ava Duvernay, Director

A Primer: Reparations and White Privilege, Trevor Noah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVa-HAsB-xQ

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Henry Louis Gates

Blackish, ABC

Dear White People, Jusin Simien, Director

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Director

James Baldwin Responds to Paul Weiss on the Dick Cavett Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZQQ7o16yQ

Just Mercy, Dustin Daniel Cretton, Director

Mudbound, Dee Rees, Producer

One Night in Miami, Regina King, Director

Orange is the New Black, Jenji Kohan et al, Producers

Queen Sugar, Ava Duvernay, Director

Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, Gillian Wearing, Director

Selma, Ava Duvernay, Director

Seven Seconds, Veena Sud, Producer

The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr.

Other Resources, Studies, and Guides

Black Lives Matter Resource Guide, https://drive.google.com/file/d/13jpcdBZeVUZqQDzFshSP0k-z9AUrtjn-/view?usp=sharing

Left Out and Left Behind, American Bar Association, https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/women/leftoutleftbehind-int-f-web-061020-003.pdf

Podcasts

A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, https://soundcloud.com/harperaudiopresents/matt-damon-reads-howard-zinn

1619 Podcast, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html

CodeSwitch: Race and Identity Remixed, NPR, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/

In Search of Black History, Bonnie Greer, https://www.audible.in/pd/In-Search-of-Black-History-with-Bonnie-Greer-Audiobook/B08258WTCQ

Intersectionality Matters! Kimberle Crenshaw, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intersectionality-matters/id1441348908

Radical Imagination, Angela Glover, https://radicalimagination.us/episodes

Whistling Vivaldi and Beating Stereotypes, Neal Conan, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125859207

Ted Talks

A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System, Adam Foss, https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_foss_a_prosecutor_s_vision_for_a_better_justice_system (NOTE: Mr. Foss is presently under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for alleged sexual misconduct)

From the Inside Out: Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Wendy Knight Agard, https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_knight_agard_from_the_inside_out_diversity_inclusion_belonging

How to Reduce the Wealth Gap Between Black and White Americans, Kedra Newson Reeves, https://www.ted.com/talks/kedra_newsom_reeves_how_to_reduce_the_wealth_gap_between_black_and_white_americans

Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice, Megan Ming Francis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s&t=2s

Training Materials

Websites

Civil Rights Digital Library, http://crdl.usg.edu

Othering and Belonging Institute, Berkeley, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/