BLM Resources
contributed by community members
Books
Classics — Nonfiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
Women, Race, and Class — Angela Davis
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. DuBois
The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon (Colonialism)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Alex Haley
Killing Rage: Ending Racism — bell hooks
Race Matters — Cornel West
The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander
The Yellow House — Sarah Brown
Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility — Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi
Born a Crime — Trevor Noah (South Africa)
So You Want to Talk About Race — Ijeoma Oluo
Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson
The Fire This Time — Jesmyn Ward
Writing to Save a Life — John Edgar Wideman
Mindfulness/Spirituality
Mindful of Race — Ruth King
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation — Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens & Rev. angel Kyodo Williams
Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community — Larry Yang
Fiction
The Round House — Louise Erdrich (Indigenous)
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
There There — Tommy Orange (Indigenous)
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Red at the Bone — Jacqueline Woodson
Kids
All Because You Matter — Tami Charles
A Kids Book About Racism — Jelani Memory
Films
Fictionalizations/Drama/Satire/Other
Black Panther (great for older kids too)
BlacKkKlansman
Do the Right Thing
Fruitvale Station
Get Out
Just Mercy (from the book, above)
Malcolm X
Moonlight (also LGBTQ+)
Sorry to Bother You
When They See Us
Articles
America, This is Your Chance — Michelle Alexander
Facing My White Privilege — Tara Brach
The Case for Reparations — Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack — Peggy McIntosh
Podcasts
How to be an Anti-racist — Ibram X. Kendi interview with Brené Brown, June 3, 2020
#tellblackstories — Color of Change podcast
1619 — New York Times podcast series on how slavery has transformed America
Websites
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter 5280 (FB page)
Ruth King — Helping thought leaders become mindful of their racial conditioning and its impact on cultural wellbeing
SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
SURJ Denver