Racial Justice Resources

The burden is not on the oppressed to educate the oppressors. Now is the time for non-Black allies to educate themselves and their communities. Below, please find a non-comprehensive list of resources to help you do so.

Organizations: • ACLU Foundation • Central San Diego Black Chamber • ADL – No Place for Hate of Commerce • Black Emotional and Mental Health • Color of Change Collective • Equal Justice Initiative • Foundation • NAACP Legal Defense & Education • Fund (designated from Take Action • National Urban League Minnesota Education Fund) • The Bail Project • (designated from We • The Innocence Project The Protestors) • The Sentencing Project

Books: • Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Brittney Cooper) • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Elizabeth Hinton) • How Jews Became White Folks ( Brodkin) • How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi) • How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide (Crystal Fleming) • Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson) • Me and White Supremacy (Layla Saad) • Race for Profit (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) • Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) • Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde) • So You Want to Talk About Race () • Stamped from the Beginning (Ibram X. Kendi) • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander) • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo) • : The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol Anderson) • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Beverly Daniel Tatum)

Racial Justice Resources

Children’s Books: Teenage Books: • A is for Activist (Innosanto Nagara) • Dear Martin () • AntiRacist Baby (Ibram X. Kendi) • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and • Hands Up! (Breanna J. McDaniel) You: A Remix of the National Book • I Am Enough (Grace Byers) Award-winning Stamped from the • Malcolm Little (Ilyasah Shabazz) Beginning (Jason Reynolds and • Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness Ibram X. Kendi) (Anastasia Higginbotham) • (Angie Thomas) • Something Happened in Our Town: A • This Book is Anti-Racist Child's Story about Racial Injustice (Tiffany Jewell) (Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard) • Sulwe (Lupita Nyong'o) • The Colors of Us (Karen Katz) • The Skin You Live In (Michael Tyler) • We're Different, We're the Same (Bobbi Kates)

Film: Podcasts: • 13th (Netflix) • 1619 (New York Times) • A Class Divided (FRONTLINE) • Code Switch (NPR) • Blue Eyed (Bertram Verhaag) • Hear To Slay, with Roxane Gay and • I Am Not Your Negro (Magnolia Pictures) Tressie McMillan Cottom • Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) • Intersectionality Matters! (The African American Policy Forum) • LA 92 (National Geographic) • Justice In America, criminal justice reform • Strong Island (Netflix) • Seeing White, a Scene on Radio podcast • Teach Us All (Netflix) • The Appeal, criminal justice reform • The Invention of Race (PRX) • Unlocking Us, Brené Brown with • Whose Streets? (Magnolia Pictures) Ibram X. Kendi

Jewish Resources: • AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps - Speak Torah to Power video series • Be’chol Lashon - News and articles from diverse Jewish communities globally • Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice - Ways to engage civically • Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations from Reconstructing Judaism - Essays & resources on race • Jews for Racial & Economic Justice - Campaigns and resources • Jewish Social Justice Roundtable - Racial Justice Resources • Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - Racial Justice Resources • Repair the World - Guides and Toolkits on Racial (and Social) Justice • T’ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights - Anti-Racism Resources • Union for Reform Judaism - Audacious Hospitality Initiative

Racial Justice Resources

Articles: • “AMERICAN DIARY: To be black and a journalist at this moment” (Associated Press) • “American policing is broken. Here’s how to fix it.” (Vox) • “Black Jews Are Being Chased Out of the Jewish Community by Racism. Here Are Their Stories.” (The Forward) • “Black Male Writers For Our Time” (New York Times) • "Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge" (Los Angeles Times) • “Freddie Gray: Five Years Later” (The Appeal) • “How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away With Murder” (New York Times) • “How silence can breed prejudice: A child development professor explains how and why to talk to kids about race” (Washington Post) • “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” (Medium) • "I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem" () • "I’m Black. My Mom is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About ’s Killing" (Huffington Post) • “It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” (Elle) • “It’s Time For The Jewish Community To Do Teshuva For Its Treatment of Jews Of Color” (The Forward) • “Jew of Color Have Been Consistently Undercounted by the American Jewish Establishment. Until Now.” (The Forward) • “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People” (New York Times) • “Outsmarting Human Minds” (a project by ) • “Skin in the Game; How Anti-Semitism Animates White Nationalism” (Political Research Associates) • “The ‘1619 Project’” (New York Times) • “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic) • "The Death of George Floyd, In Context” (The New Yorker) • “The Intersection of Racism and Anti-Semitism” (eJewishPhilanthropy) • “The Law Isn’t Neutral” (Slate) • “The Protests Against George Floyd’s Death Make Some People Uncomfortable. That’s The Point.” (BuzzFeed) • “The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops” (The Conversation) • “This Elul, It’s Time To Do Teshuva For American Racism” (The Forward) • “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd” (CNN) • “Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is.” (Vox) • “What Happened to Crime in Camden?” (CityLab) • “You don’t have to choose between Black Lives Matter and Israel” (The Forward) • “You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black” (Washington Post)