Anti-racism Resources
Our statement on Black Lives Matter and racial injustice.
Books
ADULT FICTION
Achebe, Chinua Things fall apart
Fiction/Achebe Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame Friday Black
BLACK LIFE FICTION Adjei-Brenyah Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Bennett, Brit The mothers
Black Life Fiction/Bennett Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Coates, Ta-Nehisi The water dancer
Black Life Fiction/Coates Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Ellison, Ralph The Invisible Man
Black Life Fiction/Ellison Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Jones, Tayari An American marriage
Fiction/Jones Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Hannaham, James Delicious foods
Black Life Fiction/Hannaham Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Hurston, Zora Neale Their eyes were watching God
Black Life Fiction/Hurston Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Larsen, Nella Passing
Black Life Fiction/Larsen Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Morrison, Toni The bluest eye.
Fiction/Morrison Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Morrison, Toni Home
Fiction/Morrison Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Terry, Chris L. Black card.
Black Life Fiction/Terry Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Walker, Alice The color purple.
Fiction/Walker Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Whitehead, Colson The underground railroad.
Fiction/Whitehead Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
ADULT NONFICTION
Alexander, Michelle The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
364.973 Al Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Anderson, Carol White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide.
305.8 An Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Baldwin, James The fire next time
814 Baldwin Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Brown, Austin Channing I’m still here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Black Life 305.896 Br Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Coates, Ta-Nehisi Between the world and me.
305.8 Co Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Cooper, Brittney C. Eloquent rage: a black feminist discovers her superpower.
305.48 COOPER,B Co Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Dianglo, Robin White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
305.8 Di Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Desmond, Matthew Evicted: poverty and profit in the American City.
339.4 De Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Fleming, Crystal Marie How to be less stupid about Race
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Hooks, Bell Killing rage: ending racism.
305.8 Ho
Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an antiracist.
305.8 Ke Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America.
305.8 Ke Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse When they call you a terrorist: a Black Lives memoir.
323.092 KHAN-CULLORS, P Kh Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Ritchie, Andrea Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Rothstein, Richard The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America
305.8 Ro Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Singh, Anneliese The Racial Healing Handbook
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Stevenson, Bryan Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption.
353.4 St Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Tatum, Beverly Daniel “Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” : and other conversations about race.
177.3 Ta Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Tochluk, Shelly Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to do it
Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Well-read black girl: finding our stories, discovering ourselves: an anthology.
810.8 We Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Wilkerson, Isabel The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America’s great migration.
304.8 Wi Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Zinn, Howard A people’s history of the United States.
973 Zi Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
TEEN FICTION
Draper, Sharon M. Blended
YA Fiction Draper Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Gibney, Shannon Dream country
YA Fiction Gibney
Maldonado, Torrey Secret Saturdays
YA Fiction Maldonaldo
Myers, Walter Dean Monster
YA Fiction Myers Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Onyebuchi, Tochi Beasts make of night
YA Fiction Onyebuchi
Onyebuchi, Tochi War girls
YA Fiction Onyebuchi Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Petrus, Junauda The stars and the blackness between them
YA Fiction Petrus Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Reynolds, Jason All American boys
YA Fiction Reynolds Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Thomas, Angie The hate u give
YA Fiction Thomas Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Watson, Renee Piecing me together
YA Fiction Watson Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
TEEN NONFICTION
Ginwright, Shawn A. Black youth rising: activism and radical healing in urban America
YA 305.235 Gi
Kuklin, Susan No choirboy: murder, violence, and teenages on death row
YA 364.66 Ku Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Ham Robin Almost American Girl
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the 1965 Selma voting rights march
YA 323.11 Lo Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Slater, Dashka The 57 Bus
YA 364.15 SL Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
CHILDREN’S FICTION
Alexander, Kwame The undefeated
Easy/Alexander
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Cherry, Matthew A. Hair love:a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere
Easy/Cherry
Chung, Arree Mixed: a colorful story
Easy/Chung
Hoffman, Mary Amazing Grace
Easy/Hoffman
Kates, Bobbi Jane We’re different, we’re the same
Easy/Kates
Katz, Karen The colors of us
Easy Katz
Manushkin, Fran Happy in our skin
Easy/Manushkin
McDaniel, Breanna J. Hands up!
Easy/McDaniel
Miller, Sharee Don’t touch my hair!
Easy/Miller
Nagara, Innosanto A is for activist.
Easy Nagara Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Nyong’o, Lupita Sulwe
Easy/Nyong’o Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
De la Pena, Matt Last stop on Market Street
Easy/de la Pena Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Pinkney, Sandra L. All the shades of black: a celebration of our children
Easy/Pinkney
Rotner, Shelley Shades of People
Easy/Rotner
Tyler, Michael The skin you live in
Easy/Tyler
Woodson, Jacqueline This is the rope: a story from the Great Migration
Easy/Woodson Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Draper, Sharon M. Stella by starlight
J Draper
Grimes, Nikki Jazmin’s notebook
J Grimes
Maldonado, Torrey What lane?
J Maldonado Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi Akata witch
J Okorafor Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Ramee, Lisa Moore A good kind of trouble
J Ramee Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Rhodes, Jewell Parker Ghost boys
J Rhodes Downloadable Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of thunder, hear my cry
J Taylor Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Williams, Alicia Genesis begins again
J Williams Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Woodson, Jacqueline Brown girl dreaming
J Woodson Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu My life as an ice cream sandwich
J Zoboi Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
CHILDREN’S NONFICTION
Alko, Selina The case for loving: the fight for interracial marriage
306.84 Al
Chambers, Veronica Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Jewel, Tiffany This Book is Antiracist: 20 Lessons on how to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Kendi, Ibram X Antiracist Baby
J New Nonfiction Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Latham, Irene Can I touch your hair?: poems of race, mistakes, and friendship
811 Latham Downloadable E-book and Audiobook available through Overdrive and Libby
Lester, Julius Let’s talk about race
305.8 Le
Morrison, Toni Remember: the journey to school integration
371.97 Mo
Nelson, Marilyn How I discovered poetry
811 Nelson
We are all born free: the universal declaration of human rights in pictures
341.48 We
Tonatiuh, Duncan Separate is Never Equal
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Weatherford, Carole Boston Voice of freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
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GRAPHIC NOVELS
Coates, Ta-Nehisi Black Panther and the Crew
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Craft, Jerry New Kid
Downloadable E-book and Audiobook through Overdrive and Libby
J Craft
Dennis, Denise Black history for beginners
Black Life 305.896 DE
Duffy, Damien Octavia Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaption
Adult Graphic Fiction Duffy
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Jacob, Mira The Good Talk
Downloadable E-book and Audiobook through Overdrive and Libby
Jeffrey, Gary Little Rock Nine and the fight for equal education
Downloadable E-book available through Overdrive and Libby
Medina, Tony I am Alfonso Jones
YA Graphic novel Fiction Medina
Wimberly, Ron Black history in its own words
Adult Graphic Novel 973.0496 Wi
Movies & Television
ADULT FICTION FILMS & TV
Blackkklansman
DVD Fiction Blackkklansman
Blindspotting
DVD Fiction Blindspotting
Dear white people
DVD Fiction Dear
Do the right thing
DVD Fiction Do
Fruitvale station
DVD Fiction Fruitvale
Get out
DVD Fiction Get
Harriet
DVD Fiction Harriet
Hidden figures
DVD Fiction Hidden
If Beale Street could talk
DVD Fiction If
Insecure
DVD SERIES Insecure
In the heat of the night
DVD Fiction In
Loving
DVD Fiction Loving
Marshall
DVD Fiction Marshall
McFarland USA
DVD Fiction McFarland
Moonlight
DVD Moonlight
Queen & Slim
DVD Fiction Queen
Selma
DVD Fiction Selma
Serpico
DVD Fiction Serpico
Sweet sweetback’s baad asssss song
DVD Fiction Sweet
To kill a mockingbird
DVD Fiction To
ADULT NONFICTION FILMS & TV
Black is – Black ain’t
DVD 973.0496 Bl
Class divided
DVD 379.2 Cl
The Central Park Five
DVD 364.15 Ce
Hoop dreams
DVD 796.32 Ho
I am not your Negro
DVD 323.11 I
Inequality for all
DVD 330 In
Let the fire burn
DVD 974.8 Le
Malcolm X
DVD B Malcolm S Ma
Whose streets?
DVD 305 WH
TEEN FILMS
Black Panther
DVD Fiction Black
Remember the Titans
DVD Fiction Remember
CHILDREN’S FILMS
And the children shall lead
DVD J And
Blaze and the monster machines: heroes of Axle City
DVD J Blaze
Selma, Lord, Selma
DVD J Selma
Sounder
DVD J Sounder
He named me Malala
DVD 371.8 He
Articles
https://www.mic.com/p/the-best-books-on-racism-you-can-read-for-free-right-now-22956044
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/climate/racism-climate-change-reading-list.htm
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-do-we-change-america
Organizations
Genesee County REACH – Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
http://www.gchd.us/ Contact person: Tamara Brickey tbridkey@gchd.us
Neighbors Without Borders – Sponsors of the Tendaji Talks https://www.facebook.com/NeighborhoodsWithoutBorders/
American Friends Service Committee – Founded in 1917, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. They are sponsoring an initiative to defund the police:
Black Lives Matter Detroit – BLM is a Black led movement which welcomes individuals of every identity, and makes an effort to center the most marginalized among us.
NAACP Flint – Local branch of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization
https://www.facebook.com/naacpflint/
Urban League of Flint – The Urban League of Flint is an affiliate of the National Urban League, a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.
Podcasts
1619 – The New York Times audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
Black on the Air -Emmy award-winning producer, actor and comedian Larry Wilmore weighs in on the issues of the week and interviews guests in the worlds of politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond. https://www.theringer.com/larry-wilmore-black-on-air
Codeswitch – From NPR, “Code Switch shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism, from language and workplace culture to social norms.” https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
Pod Save the People – On Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith. https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/
All My Relations – Before and during the enslavement and exploitation of Black Americans, there was the genocide of Native Americans and it’s important that anti racism conversations begin there. https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/
Webinars & Online Videos
Tendaji Talks – A lecture series on systemic racism and African American history in Flint, in honor of Tendaji Ganges. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuTJBIS_V0upBP3wmxNScA
#KidLit4BlackLives Rally – Led by Kwame Alexander, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jason Reynolds, the Rally featured inspiring words, music, and numerous calls to action in support of equity and justice. https://youtu.be/fElXu_MdRrs
Periodicals
Flint Beat – A local online publication. Flint Beat‘s founder and publisher, Jiquanda Johnson is a Flint-area native with more than 16 years of experience in journalism including print, television and digital media. She has worked for The Detroit News, NBC25, Fox and MLive Media Group/The Flint Journal, where she covered the city of Flint.
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