RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

Videos/Podcasts/Websites

How Parents Can Help Kids Understand the Protests and Fight Racism

Social Justice Books: Books for Early Childhood Educators and Parents

Black Lives Matters Instructional Library – Early Childhood Books including books in Spanish

Podcast: Safe Space Radio: Talking to White Kids About Race and Racism

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

· I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (ages 2+)

· Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold (ages 3+)

· Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter (ages 3+)

· Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (ages 4+)

· The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (ages 4+)

· Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (ages 5+)

· Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper (ages 5+)

· Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons (ages 5+)

· The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (ages 5+)

· Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (ages 6+)

· Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson (ages 6+)

· Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (ages 9+)

· Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper (ages 9+)

· Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Ashley Bryan (ages 9+)

· Ghost by Jason Reynolds (ages 10+)

· Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (ages 10+)

· The River Between Us by Richard Peck (ages 11+)

· Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (ages 11+)

· American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, graphic novel, (ages 13+)

· A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, play, (ages 13+)

· Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (ages 14+)

· The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (ages 14+)

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

· How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

· Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Joy DeGruy

· White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

· Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

· Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi

· So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

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

· Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

· Born A Crime, Trevor Noah

· The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

· Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America, Jennifer Harvey

· Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

· The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGhee

OTHER RESOURCES

All in - The Fight for Democracy

The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes, Vox

Race—The Power of an Illusion, PBS

The 1619 Project, New York Times

Kimberly Jones: How Can We Win

HOW TO REPORT A HATE INCIDENT

File a police report with your local precinct.

Southern Poverty Law Center #REPORTHATE

Anti-Defamation League #EXPOSEHATE