Resources for families & educators

• Confederate Flag 2 – How to Talk to Small Children About Racism; Celebrating Bree Newsome, a model for educational, age-appropriate storytelling by Aya de Leon
• Kid-friendly language for Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles, 2019 By Laleña Garcia
• Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Children’s Books by Mitali Perkins in School Library Journal
• A Mother’s White Privilege by Elizabeth Broadbent in the Huffington Post
• Unpacking the Knapsack of White Privilege: by Peggy McIntosh
• White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies: by Peggy McIntosh
• What White Children Need to Know About Race by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli in Independent School Magazine
• Telling My Son About Ferguson by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
• The Rules: Making sense of race and privilege by Lawrence Otis Graham in Princeton Alumni Weekly. A Black father shares the lessons and rules he hoped would protect his upper-class Black children, and how they failed.
• Evidence of System Justification in Young Children by Andrew Baron and Mahzarin Banaji
• Parent and Caregiver tools to evaluate children’s books using an anti-racist and anti-bias lens
• Children are not Colorblind: How Young Children See Race

• Supporting Gender Health 101
• They’re Not Too Young to Talk About Race

• Raising Race Conscious Children — raceconscious.org
• Teaching Tolerance — tolerance.org
• Embrace Race — embracerace.org
• Teaching for Change — teachingforchange.org

• 5 Ways of Understanding Black Lives Matter : Watch NYU Professor Frank Leon Roberts break the BLM Movement down, keeping it real. His talk starts about a minute into the video
• 13th: Documentary by Ava DuVernay which explores how the Thirteenth Amendment led to an epidemic of mass incarceration in the United States.  (available on Netflix)
• I Am Not Your Negro: a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House.
• The Unequal Opportunity Race: a short educational video produced by the African American Policy Forum (founded by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Dr. Luke Charles Harris) to demonstrate how inequity is built into the framework of our society.
• Disclosure: documentary, leading trans creatives and thinkers share heartfelt perspectives and analysis about Hollywood’s impact on the trans community

GATHER: GATHER is the story of the rebuilding of Native food systems. This feature film is an intimate portrait tracing the intentional destruction of Native American foodways and our renaissance and resilience, our inherent right, to reclaim it.

Here are a few titles that we recommend for your child’s bookshelf that feature many walks of life.

1. A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (local author). Board book. Also available in Spanish
2. Anti-Racist Baby by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
3. Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
4. Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley
5. Whose Toes Are Those? by Jabari Asim and LeUyen Pham
6. Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park and Ho Baek Lee
7. Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson
8. Susan Laughs Hardcover by Jeanne Willis
9. Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
10. Baby Goes to Market by Atinuke and Angela Brooksbank
11. Pretty Brown Face by Andrea and Brian Pinkney
12. They She He Me Free to Be! by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG
13. Hair Love  By Matthew A. Cherry
14. Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
15. A Big Bed for Little Snow by Grace Lin
16. Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
17. Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel
18. Sometimes People March by Tessa Allen
19. We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
20. When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
21. Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat
22. The Name Jar Yangsook Choi
23. You Hold Me Up/Ki Kîhcêyimin Mâna by Monique Gray-Smith
24. Click Clack Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin (referenced in “That’s not fair!” and the concept of protest)
25. Islandborn By Junot Diaz
26. The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hikab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
27. Julián Is a Mermaid By Jessica Love
28. Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
29. Where are You From? By Jamie Kim
30. Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
31. Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherfors
32. Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
33. We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom by Kelly Starling Lyons
34. Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown by Malathai Iyengar,
35. Missing Daddy by Mariame Kaba
36. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James
37. Hair Love by Mattew A. Cherry
38. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’O
39. Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi
40. All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger
41. Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
42. Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
43. Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina by Carmen Bernier-Grand
44. Abuela’s Weave by Omar S. Casteneda, Enrique O. Sanchez (Illustrator)
45. Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee
46. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
47. I am Enough by Grace Bryers
48. A Kids Book about Racism by Jelani Memory
49. A Kids Book about Belonging by Jelani Memory
50. Dreamers by Yuyu Morales
51. The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson
52. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
53. Daddy, There’s A Noise Outside by Kenneth Braswell
54. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena, Christian Robinson
55. How Raven Stole the Sun by Maria Williams,
56. Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
57. Little You by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett
58. Woke Baby by  Mahogany L. Browne
59. Every Little Thing by Cedella Marley
60. What is Light? By Markette Sheppard
61. Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
62. M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child
63. He’s Got The Whole World in His Hands by Kadir Melson
64. Memphas, Martin, and the Mountaintop: TheSanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan
65. Just like Mama by Alice Faye Duncan
66. Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
67. Juneteenth by Vaunda Micheaux Melson and Drew Nelson
68. The Thing About Bees by Shagazz Larkin
69. Araw sa Palengke by May Tobias-Papa
70. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
71. Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
72. This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World by Matt Lamothe
73. Jake Makes a World Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
74. Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
75. Pan de Sal Saves the Day by Norma Olizon-Chikiamco, illustrated by Mark Salvatus
76. Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel
77. The Moccasins by Earl Einarson, illustrated by Julie Flett
78. Coyote Tales by Thomas King, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
79. A Promise Is A Promise by Michael Kusugak and Robert Munsch, illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka
80. Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong by Dawn B. Mabalon, PhD & Gayle Romasanta, illustrated by Andre Sibayan
81. Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
82. It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Julie Morstad
83. Dim Sum for Everyone! by Grace Lin
84. The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro
85. A Different Pond by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui
86. Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, illustrated by Kristi Valiant
87. Hand Over Hand by Alma Fullerton, illustrated by Renné Benoit
88. Ay, Naku! by Reni Roxas
89. Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise, illustrated by Paola Escobar
90. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
91. The Skin You Live In Hardcover Book by Michael Tyler
92. Lovely Hardcover by Jess Hong
93. My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
94. The Family Book Paperback by Todd Parr
95. I Can See Just Fine Hardcover by Eric Barclay
96. Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman
97. Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald No Combina by Monica Brown
98. Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
99. Dan and Diesel by Charlotte Hudson
100. Playing and Learning Together Meeting Mimi by Francie Dolan