Anti-Racism/Anti-Bias Resources

To start – A few top anti-racism resources for kids and adults:

• 11 Children’s Books To Teach Your Kids About Racism And Discrimination
• Black Lives Matter Reading Room
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
• Why White Parents Don’t Talk About Race
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• An Antiracist Reading List
• Code Switch Podcast (NPR)
• Anti-Racist Resources for Multi- and Transracial Families

Below are many more resources on how families can understand and work to overcome racism in America, specifically centered on anti-black racism and white supremacy.

For Children

For Adults

Take Action	Racist Seattle Businesses Black-Owned Etsy Shops Intentionalist: Database of diverse-owned small businesses  Black Wall Street app 26 Ways to be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice Text FLOYD to 55156 to demand all four officers involved with Floyd’s death be charged and arrested Call DA Michael Freeman at 612-324-4499 to demand all four officers be charged and arrested Contact your congresspeople and ask them to support Reps Pressley and Omar’s resolution condemning police brutality
Donate	Black Visions Collective Reclaim the Block Know Your Rights Camp Minnesota Freedom Fund Official George Floyd Memorial Fund Campaign Zero Black Lives Matter Communities United Against Police Brutality I Run With Maud NAACP Legal Defense Fund ACLU Black Mama’s Bail Out Equal Justice Initiative Duwamish Tribe Rent
Learn	Mapping Police Violence African American History: From Emancipation to Present (Open Yale Course)
Read	An Antiracist Reading List  Listening to Black Voices Amid Murder, Violence, Protest, and Pandemic Smithsonian – National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About Race Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi What Does It Mean To Be White? by Robin DiAngelo The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts Locking Up Our Own by James Forman The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today How Seattle Gave Up on Busing and Allowed Its Public Schools to Become Alarmingly Resegregated Showing Up for Racial Justice Resources Coalition of Anti Racist Whites Resources
Listen	1619 (NYT) About Race Code Switch (NPR) Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast Pod For The Cause (Leadership Conf on Civil & Human Rights) Pod Save The People (Crooked Media) Seeing White Parenting Forward podcast episode “Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt” Fare of the Free Child Podcast
Watch	Mixed-ish (ABC) 13th (Netflix) American Son (Netflix) Dear White People (Netflix) If Beale St Could Talk (Hulu) King in the Wilderness (HBO) See You Yesterday (Netflix) The Hate You Give (Cinemax) When They See Us (Netflix) Just Mercy (YouTube, Amazon Prime) Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law (YouTube) Oregon’s Black Pioneers (YouTube) Raising Anti Racist Kids (YouTube) Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools (YouTube) Ijeoma and Ahamafule Oluo Juneteenth Conversation (KCLS Listen/Watch)
Local Organizations	Kids & Race – Recommended Resources Shoreline Social Justice Book Group 2 local chapters – Showing Up for Racial Justice Families of Color Seattle (FOCS) – connecting families and building community for POC and mixed-race families Black Lives Matter – Shoreline