Let’s work together to create an Anti-Racist world.

Parenting for Joy and Justice has deep meaning for me - it means that all of us have a right to live with joy and fight for justice. I think the two cannot truly be separated. But, for over 400 years, families of color in this country have lived within a system that is not designed for their wellness and thriving - it is, in fact, designed to oppress them. This must change. I know my joy can’t be full and complete if the rights and life of another are threatened. I hope you will join me in making anti-racism a part of your parenting, so that we may raise children who embrace joy and fight for justice.

Below, you will find a growing collection of resources. Whether you are looking to support Black Lives Matter, the AAPI (Asian-American and Pacific Islander) community, working on talking with your children about systemic racism, or doing the work of allyship, I hope there is something below that is helpful to you. (And if there is something that you think is missing, please use the contact form at the bottom to let me know.) May we all listen, learn, and then take action.

Anti-Racism Resources

Talking with Children and young people

Hand in Hand Parenting - Inoculating our Children Against Racism

Hand in Hand Parenting - Love First Parenting to Reduce Hate

Talking with Toddlers About Race

WBUR article - Talking with Kids About Racism and Protests

A Minneapolis Parent on How She Talked with her Four-Year-Old

USA Today Article About Talking with Children

National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking About Race

YouTube Video from a Teacher - How I Teach About Racism in Kindergarten

Article from Mother.ly - How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids

Talking to Kids About #blacklivesmatter

Common Sense Media - How White Parents Can Use Media to Guide Anti-Racism

Raising Race Conscious Children

The Center for Racial Justice in Education

Are you hesitant to talk with your children about race? Read this…

One Bad Mother Podcast Episode: Interview with Aya De Leon, Talking with Kids About Race and Activism

Diversify your Library - Media for children

A Black Lives Matter Instructional Library (Click on a book to go directly to a YouTube read-aloud)

Embrace Race - a carefully curated collection of lists of books, among many other resources they have

Books for Littles list

A Conscious Kid - Books Celebrating Black Boys

Motown Magic on Netflix (animated series for kids)

The Brown Bookshelf - books for children and young adults that feature Black voices

Here Wee Read’s List of Diverse Children’s Books

Multicultural Books About Female Artists

Social Justice Books

Understanding systemic Racism, White Privilege, and white Supremacy

JStor: Institutionalized Racism - A Syllabus (collection of scholarly articles)

Netflix film: 13th (by Ava DuVernay)

Rachel Cargle’s Public Address on Revolution Now and her Revolution Now Syllabus

Layla F. Saad: Becoming a Good Ancestor

NYTimes Magazine’s 1619 Project - Interactive

Video: The History of Race in America (15 min. watch), and now includes an updated Part 2 to answer questions

Grief that Takes Our Breath Away - Seattle Times Article

Video: Kimberly Jones - How Can We Win? (Very important, and suited for teens and adults)

Interview with Ibram Kendi

Ben & Jerry’s: How We Know Systemic Racism is Real

Yes Magazine - Explaining White Privilege

Tolerance Magazine - What is White Privilege?

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

NPR - Understanding the Model Minority Myth

Scalawag Magazine: Understanding White Supremacy and What You Can Do

Systemic Racism Is What Fills US Prisons

Becoming an ally

75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

Changing Minds: A Way to Confront Racism in Conversations with Other White People

What Does it Mean to be Anti-Racist?

Radicalizing Your Family Against White Supremacy

How to Respond When People Say “Riots Never Solve Anything”

For White Women - How Not to Respond to Viral Posts

To White Parents Who Want to be Allies at this Time

Dear White People: This is What We Want You to Do

White Friends: I Need You to Love My Black Sons

For Teens: A collection of resources from Teen Vogue

Ending police brutality

Time Magazine: History of the Police Force

MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluation Policing (check the FAQ section - lots of good info no matter where you live)

The Center for Popular Democracy: Freedom to Thrive (Scholarly Report)

Campaign Zero: We Can End Police Violence in America

8 Can’t Wait: Take Action with Evidence-based Police Reform Data for Many US cities

Dangers of Tear Gas

Understanding No-Knock Warrants and How They Endanger Lives

5 Things White People Can Do to Respond to State-Sanctioned Violence

NAMI Report: Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability

NPR’s CodeSwitch: How Much Do We Need The Police?

Listen to NPR Throughline: The American Police

Video: How Dave Chappelle Schooled a White Woman on Police Brutality (a hopeful piece - change is possible!)

The Peelian Principles: The Role of the Police (an interesting historical perspective)

Health Justice for black women and mothers

National Partnership for Women and Families: Black Women’s Maternal Health

Black Mamas Matter Alliance

ScienceDirect Article About Black vs. White Maternal Morbidity and Mortality

NBC News Article: New Data Available for Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality

Understanding the History of Modern Gynecology

Hastings Law Journal: Black Women and the History of Breastfeeding

Rachel Ricketts: Dismantling Racist Heteropatriarchy

Read the story of Amber Isaac

Read the story of Shalon Irving

Learn AAPI history, Support the AAPI community

Name Pronunciation Guide for Victims of Atlanta Shootings

Liz Kleinrock - Social Justice Educator

Listen to Amanda Nguyen Talk About the Rise of Violence Targeting People of Asian Descent

Order 9066: A Podcast from APM About the “Relocation Camps”

Book to Read: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Book for Young Readers: Farewell to Manzanar

Trevor Noah on the Atlanta Shootings

Injustice in the education system

Getting Black Minstrelsy Out of School Classrooms

NAACP: School to Prison Pipeline (Downloadable PDF)

School Ratings Systems Are Racist: Read this Article from Vox to Understand Why

Scholarly Article about Interrupting Racism in the Classroom

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

KUOW: ‘I Can’t Breathe: A Second-Grader. A Security Guard. A Seattle School’

Doing Diversity Well in Predominantly White Schools

Prioritizing Empathy and Anti-Racism in Schools

Support POC-owned Businesses

List of Black-Owned Etsy Shops

Shoppe Black

Official Black Wall Street

Refinery29 Article: List of Directories of Black-Owned Businesses

Organizations to Support

Black Lives Matter

Big List of Organizations to Donate to, from NYMag

NAACP

Equal Justice Initiative

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Color of Change

Other media to consume

Podcasts:

1619

Come Through With Rebecca Carroll

Minority Korner

Otherhood

CodeSwitch

What Matters

Black History Bootcamp by GirlTrek

Books (This is by no means an exhaustive list):

PLEASE CONSIDER BUYING BOOKS FROM A STORE ON THIS LIST:

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (non-fiction)

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (non-fiction)

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (non-fiction)

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (non-fiction)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (fiction)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Nealy Hurston (fiction)

They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery (non-fiction)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (fiction)

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom (non-fiction)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (fiction)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (non-fiction)

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (fiction)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (fiction)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (fiction)

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (fiction)

Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism Reading List

Films and Documentaries

List of films available free from Cineplex

10 films to watch to support the Black Lives Matter movement

Amend: The Fight for America (on Netflix)