Black Lives Matter
Local Organizations
- The One Human Race Initiative is a ministry of the Union of Black Episcopalians, Myra McDaniel Chapter that creates a safe, open, and productive environment for everyone to learn and share about race.
- Austin Justice Coalition is a Racial Justice Group that educates and builds community power for people of color who live in Austin, Texas that need support, community, and liberation during a time of systemic injustice in America.
- Black Pearl Books an Independent Bookstore in the Austin, TX Hill Country
Talking about race and racism: resources for families
Not sure how to have the conversation? Need some additional support for conversations that your family is having? Here is a list of resources to help you and your family as you have hard conversations with your children and teens. (If you order books on Amazon Smile, please be sure to select our non-profit organization Welcome Table, Inc as your charity.)
Parenting Resources
The Talk
- Get Home Safely: 10 Rules of Survival
- Having ‘The Talk’: Expert Guidance On Preparing Kids For Police Interactions
- How to Raise a Black Son in America
- The Talk: Surviving Police Encounters While Black
How to talk to your children about racism
- @theconsciouskid : Parenting and Education through a Critical Race Lens. (on Instagram)
- The Very Best Code Switch Episodes For Kids (Code Switch: Race. In your face. Podcast)
- George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? By Alia E Dastagir (USA Today)
- How Black Art Can Spark Conversations with Children (PBS Parents)
- How to Talk to Kids about Race and Racism: There’s no question: talking about race can be sensitive, and yes, even a bit messy. (Parent Toolkit)
- How to Talk to Your Children About Protests and Racism (CNN)
- How to Teach Children About Cultural Awareness and Diversity (PBS Parents)
- Raising Race Conscious Children: a resource for talking about race with young children (blog)
- Talking About Race (Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- Talking Race With Young Children (NPR)
- Talking to Children About Racial Bias (HealthyChildren.org)
- Teaching Your Child About Black History (PBS Kids for Parents)
- White kids, racism and the way privileged parenting props up an unjust system: white children are everywhere, but their whiteness is too often invisible and unspoken. (NBC News)
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Books
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- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Hardcover by Monique W. Morris
- Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls by Monique W Morris
- Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society by Dr. Darlene Hopson and Derek S. Hopson
- Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children by James P. Comer and Alvin F. Poussaint
Teaching and Learning Resources
- 15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest (EdWeek)
- Scaffolding anti-racism resources (A working document of anti-racism resources)
- Teaching Books
- Teaching Books #BlackLivesMatter Reads for Kids
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2020 Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1970 — demonstrating African American culture
- Teaching Tolerance (provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school)
For Young Children and older
- The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
- Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles (Note: the inspiration for CDF Freedom Schools was/is Freedom Summer, aka the Mississippi Summer Project, a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.)
- Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack, illustrated by Jerry Pickney
- A Kids Book about Racism by Jelani Memory (nonfiction)
- A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra Pinkney and Myles Pinkney
- The Sneetches by Dr Seuss
- Twenty-Eight Days: Moments in Black That History Changed the World by Charles R. Smith
For Upper Elementary School Age Children and older
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (nonfiction)
- Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham & Charles Waters (nonfiction)
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce & Debbie Levy (nonfiction)
For Middle School Age Youth and older
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
- Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe (nonfiction)
- Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
- The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell (nonfiction)
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: the Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford (nonfiction)
- You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys by Sharon G. Flake
For High School Teens and adults
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- I Am Alphonso Jones by Tony Medina
- I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (nonfiction)
- Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (nonfiction)
- Roots by Alex Haley
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolda (non-fiction)
- Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
- Unpacking the Invisible White Knapsack essay by Peggy McIntosh (nonfiction)
For Adults
Faith Based Resources
- America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- Homework for White Christians
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America edited by Catherine Meeks
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
- Story of Rhythm and Grace, A: What the Church Can Learn from Rock and Roll about Healing the Racial Divide by Jimi Calhoun
- The Episcopal Church (Topic links)
- What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls by Kelly Brown Douglas
Books
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- How to Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
- Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered He was Black
by Gregory H. Williams
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Understanding and Dismantling Racism by Joseph Barndt
- What If I Say the Wrong Thing: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People by Verna A. Myers
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Articles and Websites
- Commentary: A city of self-proclaimed liberalism, on the brink of cultural erasure by Virginia Cumberbatch (Austin American Statesman)
- 10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You
- Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- Unpacking the Invisible White Knapsack essay by Peggy McIntosh
Want more resources?
Lists and News Outlets
- Anti-Racism Movie Guide [with question prompts to think about] (UUA.org)
- Anti-racism Resources compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
- An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism (BuzzFeed News)
- 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance (Embrace Race)
- 11 movies that confront American racism: Films that challenge and rewire the imagination (Vox)
- Looking for books about racism? Experts suggest these must-read titles for adults and kids by Anika Reed and Hannah Yasharoff (USA TODAY)
- Reading List About Race, White Privilege, Police Brutality, White Supremacy, Black Joy, and Activism (Illustoria Mag)
- Picture Books That Teach Kids About Prejudice, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (Imagination Soup)
- Not an Easy Read: 22 Books About Hate and Prejudice (Parent’s Choice Foundation)
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Medium)
- These Essential Movies From Black Filmmakers Confront Systemic Racism In America (Esquire)
Online Book and News Outlets
- African American Literature Book Club
- The Grio (African American News Community Site)
- Race/Related, a weekly newsletter focused on race, identity and culture. (New York Times)
- The Root (African American Magazine)