Anti-Racism Resources

Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) aims to provide you with timely updates and anti-racism resources. Please share these resources with your networks and those who are looking to learn and do more to galvanize change. If you have any resources or local racial justice initiatives that you recommend we should share in a future newsletter, please send them to healthequity@northwestern.edu.

Watch the recording of our Juneteenth Virtual Cook Out from June 19th, 2020 here. Use password #Juneteenth2020.
- Read a joint statement about Juneteenth from our Founder/Director Dr. Melissa Simon and our T37 Trainee & ChicagoCHEC Alumna Carmenisha Ward here.
Please read this follow-up statement from our Center's Founder/Director Dr. Melissa Simon, MD, MPH, from June 4, 2020.
Read Dr. Melissa Simon’s first statement of solidarity with Black communities from May 31, 2020 here.

Support Local Racial Justice Initiatives

Organizations to Support:

Organizations Addressing Maternal Health Racial Disparities:

Organizations Serving Youth:

Youth Guidance: includes Becoming a Man (BAM) and Working on Womanhood (WOW) programs
Ladies of Virtue
Juvenile Justice Initiative
BYP100
My Block, My Hood, My City

Anti-Racism Resources

Most of the Resources below are from the following source:

Google Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020 accesses here: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

Resources for parents to raise anti-racist children:

Books:
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie
- Separate Is Never Equal Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- the Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr
- Same, Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
- Black Lives Matter Reading List for Kids by Brooklyn Public Library
Podcasts:
Articles:
Upcoming Events for Kids:
- CNN and 'Sesame Street' to host a town hall addressing racism
The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

Artists to Support:

Videos to watch:

Podcasts to subscribe to:

Books to read:

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
We Can't Breathe by Jabari Asim
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis
I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Fire This Time - A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
How We Fight White Supremacy A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
An Antiracist Reading List - New York Times
Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP , Marietta Collins, PhD , and Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP
All are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
'How do we change America', by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
13 lists of ways to learn and show up as antiracist* in this world by Jen Bokoff (Candid)
How to be a good white ally, by Emily Stewart
'N o , I am N ot O kay ”: A B lack J ournalist A ddresses H is W hite Fri ends', by Jimmie Briggs
Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement, Here's What You've Missed- Ijeoma Oluo
'What exactly is a microaggression' by Jenee Desmond-Harris
'Your Bookshelf May Be Part of the Problem', by Juan Vidal
'We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic', by Ibrahim X Kendi
'When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir' by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
'White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color', by Ruby Hamad (not out yet)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
'This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror' by Moustafa Bayoumi
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Davis
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
My Grandmother's Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Poem)
You Can't Touch My Hair: and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

Films and TV series to watch:

13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
King In The Wilderness — HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Organizations to follow on social media:

Antiracism Center: Twitter
Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

More anti-racism resources to check out:

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