Books
- An Antiracist Reading List - Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
- Racism in America - A Reader - Foreward by Annette Gordon-Reed. Harvard University Press
- Dismantling Racism One Book at a Time - Fordham Press
- Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Adults Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- 14 Books for a More Inclusive Look at American History. Book Riot
- 8 Historical Books to Understand Current Social Justice Movements Book Riot
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 - Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- Caste. The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Racing to Justice. Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by john a. powell
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Just Mercy. The Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Heavy. An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
- White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
- Mediocre. The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Native America From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
- Lakota America. A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
- A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement by Ken Blansett
- How We Go Home. Voices from Indigenous North America Edited by Sara Sinclair
- The Making of Asian America. A History by Erika Lee
- The Dead Are Arising. The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - As Told to Alex Haley
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- “Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification” by David Waldstreicher
- “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” by Gerald Horne
- “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution” by Jack N. Rakove
- “A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic” by George William Van Cleve
- “The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution” by Michael J. Klarman
- “The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763 to 1789” by Robert Middlekauff
- “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia” by Woody Holton
- “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 to 1815” by Gordon S. Wood
- “Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation” by Nicholas Guyatt
- “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” by Bernard Bailyn
- “The Radicalism of the American Revolution” by Gordon S. Wood
- “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World” by Maya Jasanoff
- “Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 to 1788” by Pauline Maier
- “Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America” by Linda K. Kerber
- “American Taxation, American Slavery” by Robin L. Einhorn
- “Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age” by Sylvia R. Frey
- “The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 to 1828” by Saul Cornell
- “Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation” - edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash and Ray Raphael
Articles and Other Writings
- Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope
- 5 things people still get wrong about slavery
- Ex-Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA
- Breaking Down The 1619 Project & History of Slavery in America w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones
- How the legacy of slavery affects the mental health of black Americans today
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?
- The US medical system is still haunted by slavery
- Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre
- Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, Featuring Michelle Alexander
- The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain
- The Power of Black Lives Matter - How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next
- The Great Fire - Guest Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair
- Asians must be a part of our story, too by john a. powell
- Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Time Magazine
- The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence by Hua Hsu; The New Yorker
- The time James Baldwin told UC Berkeley that Black lives matter Ivan Natividad, Berkeley News
- Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism. Inside Higher Ed
- Don’t Rely on Black Faculty to Do the Antiracist Work. Inside Higher Ed
- Combating Anti-Blackness in the AI Community by Devin Guillory
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic
- “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
- Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How by Michelle Kim | Medium (November 10, 2019)
- We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope by john a. powell | Othering & Belonging Institute (June 2, 2020)
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. Literary Hub
- The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it by Bryan Massingale
- To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power by Alicia Sheares
- 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack (August 2017)
- Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism - Inside Higher Ed
- 5 Powerful Ways to take REAL Action on DEI - Center for Creative Leadership