Be Anti-Racist: 

It is important that when we see injustices, we step in and make a difference. We need to take the initiative to educate ourselves and to make a positive difference. We cannot just “not be racist” instead we need to be actively anti-racist. The following are ways you can start to learn, change, and do better. 

Books: 

• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge⁣

• Brit-ish - Afua Hirsch ⁣

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change The World and Become a Great Ancestor- Layla Saad⁣

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism  - Robin Diangelo ⁣and Michael Eric Dyson

• How To Be An Antiracist - Ibrahim X. Kendi⁣

• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment- Patricia Hill Collins 

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower- Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir- Kiese Laymon 

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou 

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made for Whiteness- Austin Channing Brown 

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption- Bryan Stevenson

• Redefining Realness:  My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More- Janet Mock 

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches- Audre Lorde

• So You Want to Talk About Race- Ljeoma Oluo 

• The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison 

• The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin 

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness- Michelle Alexander 

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century- Grace Lee Boggs 

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration- Isabel Wilkerson 

• Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston 

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color- Cherrie Moraga

• ⁣Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century- Dorothy Roberts

• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface- Khalil Gibran Muhammad

• The Blacker The Berry- Wallace Thurman

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X- Malcolm X and Alex Haley

• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland- Jonathan M. Metzi 

• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America-  James Forman Jr. 

• Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Thought- Cedric J. Robinson 

• Waiting ‘Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America- Peniel E. Joseph 

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective- Keeanga- Yarnahtta Taylor 

• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves- Glory Edim