Resources for Race, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Inclusion
We Need Diverse Books is compiling resources from members of our community on race, equity, anti-racism, and inclusion.
Organizations
- African American Literature Book Club
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Past
- Black Visions Collective
- Black Youth Project
- Bronx Book Festival
- The Brown Bookshelf
- Campaign Zero
- Color of Change
- Courageous Conversations
- Melanin in YA
- National Black Justice Coalition
- People of Color in Publishing
- Reclaim the Block
- Rise Up Against Racism
- Social Justice Books
- Unicorn Riot
Book Recommendations
- 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance from Embrace Race
- 31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance from The Conscious Kid
- 7 Essential Books to Read That Will Educate You and Your Kids on Anti-Racism by Laura Galvin
- An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
- An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism by Arianna Rebolini
- Anti-racism Bookshop List by Ideal Bookshelf
- Anti-racist book resources from Left Bank Books
- Black Stories Matter Bookshop List by Aminah Mae Safi
- Books I Loved in 2020 by Black Authors Bookshop List by Amy Spalding
- Books on anti-racism that you can read right now by Eric Webb
- Don’t Just Read About Racism—Read Stories About Black People Living by Nic Stone
- How to Talk to Kids About Race: Books and Resources That Can Help by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
- Queer YA Books by Black Authors Spreadsheet from YA Pride
- Several Antiracist Books Are Selling Out. Here's What Else Black Booksellers and Publishers Say You Should Read from TIME
- We Read Too App: Books by and for people of color
Black-Owned Bookstores
For a full list of Black-owned bookstores, please visit our resource list of diverse-owned bookstores.
Further Reading and Educational Resources
- The 1619 Project from the New York Times
- 27 Mistakes White Teachers of Black Students Make and How to Fix Them from Education Post
- 55 Mental Health Resources for People of Color
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice from Equality Includes You
- Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students' First Amendment Rights, a detailed report from PEN America
- Anti-Racism Resources for all ages, A Project by the Augusta Baker Chair at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Nicole A. Cooke
- Education for social change | Artika R. Tyner
- Penguin Random House's The Conversation, a website housing books, resources, and programming for anti-racist engagement
- Our Modern Minstrelsy by Kekla Magoon
- #BlackDisabledLivesMatter by Britney Wilson
- Kojo For Kids: Jason Reynolds Talks About Racism And The Protests from The Kojo Nnamdi Show.
- 'Raising White Kids' Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race from NPR
- Q&A with Tiffany Jewell: THIS BOOK IS ANTI-RACIST from We Need Diverse Books
- How white parents should talk to their young kids about race by Melinda Wenner Moyer
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama
- How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids from Common Sense Media
- How to talk to your children about protests and racism from CNN
- Raising Colorblind Kids Isn’t the Point, Raising Empathetic Kids Is by Sa'iyda Shabazz
- Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism from ADL
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism by Kathleen Osta and Hugh Vasquez, National Equity Project
- Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism from TIME
- What White Children Need to Know About Race from National Association of Independent Schools
- Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life by Zyahna Bryant
- African school founder delivers books to homes during lockdown from The Voice
- A Conversation with Angela Franklin, Owner of Chez Alpha Books in Dakar, Senegal from Enchanted Lion Books
- George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? from USA Today
- The Literary World May Never Recover from #PublishingPaidMe by Rachel Charlene Lewis for Bitch Media
- Helping Your Child Cope with Media Coverage of Community Racial Trauma: Tips for Parents from Disaster and Community Crisis Center, University of Missouri
- Why we need to Talk to Children about Race & Difference from Biz Lindsay-Ryan, TEDxDePaulUniversity
- Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests from Aha! Parenting
- How community trauma can hurt student learning from Chalkbeat
- How to Be an Antiracist Educator from ASCD
- How to Talk to Kids about Race, Ages 3-8 from InCultureParent
- Resources for White Parents to Learn about Racism from InCultureParent
- Jason Reynolds, Ibram Kendi in Conversation from School Library Journal
- Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James from School Library Journal
- Kids Ask Authors with Grace Lin
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others published by Pepperdine University's online Master of Psychology program
- Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community from Sunshine Behavioral Health
- Mental Health Resources for Young People of Color from Online Counseling Programs
- I'm Queer I'm Here, What the Hell Do I Read?
- The AntiRacist Table 30 Day Challenge
- Public Health Resources for Understanding Environmental Racism
- Teaching Haiti
