[Updated 2021] Anti-Racism Resource Page
Looking for a list of resources to help you better understand the racial justice, your Christian faith, and what’s happening in America?
We’re compiling a list of resources to help you navigate the conversations taking place in our society, to learn from those unlike you, to access stories, perspectives, and ideas to assist you in becoming a better advocate.
Some of these resources are recommended by our staff, many have been read by them, others have been recommended to us.
If there is something you would like to add to the list, please email fbcd@fbcdecatur.com and we’ll include it.
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Articles
10 Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide (Southern Poverty Law Center)
A low-down, dirty shame: Ahmaud Arbery’s murder and the unrenounced racism of white Christians (James Ellis III, Baptist News Global)
Ahmaud, Breonna, Christian, George, and The Talk Every Black Boy Receives (Timothy Peoples, Baptist News Global)
Ahmaud Arbery and a pandemic of injustice (Paul Robeson Ford, Baptist News Global)
Becoming Upended: Teaching About Race and Racism with Young Children and Their Families (National Association for the Education of Young Children)
Frequently Asked Questions About Hate Groups (Southern Poverty Law Center)
George Floyd, Our Modern-Day Emmett Till (Kasey D. Jones, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship)
How to Talk to Children About Hate Speech (Equal Justice Society)
On Being White… and Other Lies [PDF] (James Baldwin)
Talking About Race and Racism (Teaching Tolerance)
Talking to Children After Race Incidents (Penn Graduate School of Education)
Teaching My Kids to Be Kind, Not Scared (Washington Post, on parenting)
What White Children Need to Know About Race (National Association of Independent Schools)
White Debt (Eula Biss, New York Times)
Why You Need to Talk About Race With Your Kids (Parent Cue)
Black-owned Businesses
Books on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji
Dear White Christians by Jennifer Harvey
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity) by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Parting Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Douglas Brown
The Color Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective [Rauschenbusch Lectures] by Kyle Haselden
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Children's Books on Race, Anti-Racism, and Diversity
Children’s Books (Ages 2-4)
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton
Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
Whose Toes Are Those? by Jabari Asim
Children’s Books (Ages 5-7)
A Kid’s Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Children of the World by Tessa Strickland and Kate DePalma
Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pickney
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonitiuh
Children’s Books (Ages 8-10)
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Children’s Books (Ages 11-13)
Children of the World by Tessa Strickland and Kate DePalma
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
Documentaries / Movies / Videos
13th (Netflix)
Baltimore Rising (HBO, 2017)
Eyes on the Prize (2006)
Freedom Riders (PBS, 2011)
George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper (Trevor Noah)
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Say Her Name – Breonna Taylor, a Conversation with Tamika Mallory and Taylor Family Attorney Lonita Baker (BLM Global Network)
Say Here Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (HBO, 2018)
Slavery By Another Name (PBS, 2012)
True Justice (HBO, 2019)
Podcasts
A Century in the World (Grace Lee Boggs, On Being)
Code Switch (NPR)
Heather McGhee (Armchair Expert)
How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in the Car Together? (Claudia Rankine, On Being)
Imagining a New America (Ta-Nehisi Coates, On Being)
Is America Possible? (Vincent Harding, On Being)
Let’s Talk About Whiteness (Eula Biss, On Being)
The Heart is the Last Frontier (Isabel Wilkerson, On Being)
W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Soul (Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Ampersad, On Being)
Where Does It Hurt? (Ruby Sales, On Being)
Who We Want to Become Beyond the New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander, On Being)
Resources for Parents
Embrace Race
Many wonderful resources for families with children to help them as they raise kids to be racial justice advocates
Four Questions to Ask Yourself Before Talking to Your Kids About Racism
[FREE EVENT] The ABC’s of Diversity Book Launch (June 23, 8PM EST)
Raising Antiracist White Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide to Parenting for Racial Justice
This is a paid, 6-section course that includes video lectures, resources, and exercises to grow skills
Representation Matters: 35 Black Kids TV Shows you Can Watch Right Now
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Round-Up
Websites / Groups
Anti-Racism Resources for White People [Google Doc] (Compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein)
Children’s Books with Characters of Color (Common Sense Media)
Racial Justice (ACLU)
Raising an Advocate (Mamademics)
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