Racial Justice

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) by Christopher Emdin

For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood… And the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin

Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times by Amy Sonnie, James Tracy, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin

How the South Wont the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker

IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson

Invisble No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Killing Rage Ending Racism by Bell Hooks

LaToya Council by Carolyn Choi

Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong by James Loewen

Living Into God's Dream: Dismantling Racism in America by Catherine Meeks and Jim Wallis

Malcolm X by Alex Haley

March. (Graphic Novel) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Native Son by Richard Wright

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin

Passing by Nella Larsen

Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz

Promise And A Way Of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson

Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understabdubg abd Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Race Traitor by Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow

Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Skin Again by Bell Hooks

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education by Demetri L. Morgan, Charles H.F. Davis III

Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions. by Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) by Catherine Fosl

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haleu and Malcom X

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bridge Called My Back by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America and Anders Walker

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran

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

The Colors Of Us by Karen Katz

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gilbran Muhammad

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know by Tema Jon Okun

The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

The Injustice of This Moment Is not an 'Aberration' by Michelle Alexander

The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America by Anthony Patrick Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, and Peter Schmidt

The Miner's Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerold Torres

The Myth Of Race by Robert Sussman

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twnety-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin

The Poaaesive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity, Polotics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipitz

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Street by Ann Oetry

The Summer We Got Free. by Mia Mckenzie

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga

This Promise of Change by Jo Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Toawards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass

Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt

Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances Kendall

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

We were Eight by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints #398) by Robin Diangelo

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America by Ira Katznelson

Whistling Vivaldi Claude Steel by Claude Steel

White Awake Daniel Hill by Daniel Hill

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones

Whiteness of a Different Color by Mathew Frye Jacobson

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

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Zami by Audre Lorde

Op-Eds

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MarketWatch: With Coronavirus, Policy Makers Have a Rare Opportunity to Pressure Top Universities to Make Admissions Fairer

Education Week: ‘Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart’: Education Must Answer for Systemic Inequality

Washington Post: White flight is creating a separate and unequal system of higher education

Children's Book

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o (Author) and Vashti Harrison (Illustrator

Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim (Author) and LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry (Author) and Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (Author) and Rafael López (Illustrator)

I Believe I Can by Grace Byers (Author) and Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)

Little Leaders: Bold Black Women in History by Vashti Harrison

My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

I Am Enough by Grace Byers

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (Author) and Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

She Persisted: 13 Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton (Author) and Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)

The Barefoot Book of Children by Kate DePalma and Tessa Strickland

Student Material

Black Lives Matter at School, a national coalition, created an anti-racist curriculum guide with English/language arts, math, social studies, and arts materials. The guide has lessons for early childhood through high school students that align with the principles of the Black Lives Matter movement.

D.C. Area Educators For Social Justice, an initiative of Teaching for Change, has a collection of lessons, videos, readings, books, and general teaching guides for students in early childhood through high school.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture launched an online portal called Talking About Race that's designed to help steer conversations about racism, racial identity, and the way these forces shape every aspect of society.

The Pulitzer Center partnered with the New York Times to turn the 1619 Project, a collection of essays and literary works observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery, into a curriculum for teachers of all grade levels. The curriculum includes reading guides, activities, and other resources about the history of race in America.

Teaching Tolerance, a project by the Southern Poverty Law Center, periodically updates its package on teaching about race, racism, and police violence.

Ian Lawrence, a teacher in Toronto, shared on Twitter a Google drive filled with resources for teachers of all grade levels on anti-racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. The resources include relevant articles, discussion questions, coloring pages, and Spanish-language materials.

Scholarships

ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund

Grants 20 incoming diverse law students with $15,000 of financial assistance over the course of their three years in law school.

HNBA Legal Education Fund

Programming includes law student scholarship funding, such as the Special Counsel Hispanic Scholarship Fund and scholarships presented through its joint venture with the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) for the annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition.

Lloyd M. Johnson Jr. Scholarship Program

Provides scholarship support for newly entering first-year law students pursuing a Juris Doctor (non-LLM) degree. The Scholarship Program will provide scholarships at $10,000 per year for up to three years.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Supports law students who seek to further MALDEF’s mission of advancing the civil rights of the Latino community in the United States through the legal profession. In recent years, MALDEF has annually awarded 5–10 law school scholarships of $5,000 each to deserving law students from throughout the nation.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Has provided over $19 million in financial support to undergraduates and law students, making it possible for hundreds of highly qualified students to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, universities, and law schools.

The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Scholarships

Awarded each fall to law students who demonstrate a commitment to serve or contribute to the Asian Pacific American community as future leaders.

The Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Scholarships

The goal of these scholarships is to increase the number of underrepresented minority groups serving as intellectual property law practitioners in law firms and the intellectual property law departments in corporations.

The Snell & Wilmer Fellowship for Advancement and Resources (FAR)

Annually, Snell & Wilmer will name up to two FAR Fellows to receive an LSAT preparation course of the Fellow’s choosing, a stipend equal to the most current cost to both sit for the LSAT and register for the Credential Assembly Service, a 1L law school prep course, money for books for all three years of law school, a technology stipend (if needed), and mentorship from an assigned Snell & Wilmer attorney over the course of the fellowship.

Zelle Diversity In Law Scholarship

Created for law students who either (1) are a member of a diverse group (broadly defined to include race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, physical disability or economic/educational disadvantage) that is historically underrepresented in the private practice of law; or (2) demonstrate a long-standing commitment to diversity that will be furthered by award of the scholarship.

AAJ Richard D. Hailey Scholarship

AAJ's Minority Caucus will award a $5,000 scholarship to a minority Law Student Member who is entering his or her first, second, or third year of law school. Additionally, the winner will be provided the opportunity to attend the AAJ Annual Convention.

Corporation Counsel of Women of Color: My Life as a Lawyer Scholarship

1L and 2L students who are enrolled in an accredited law school in any state of the United States of America are eligible for the Corporate Counsel Women of Color My Life As a Lawyer Scholarship.

Pipeline to Practice Scholarship

Founded in 2016 with a mission to provide academic enrichment and career development opportunities to talented young people from underserved and underrepresented communities

Documentary

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13th (Ava DuVernay)

Poems

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White Privilege (Kyla Lacey)

Movies

13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent