Resource Guide: books for kids and adults and important organizations to support BLM
30 Books To Talk To Children About Race, Diversity and Inclusion
As parents and caregivers it’s up to us to start the conversations, answer the questions, and educate our children in understanding about racism, white privilege, and diversity to raise conscious-minded, inclusive, anti-racist, and educated little humans. We have compiled a list of 30 books to read with your children about race, diversity, and inclusion.
Please add any recommendations to the list in the comments below. All books are linked to Black-owned bookstores you can support.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Andrea Davis Pinkney
My Hair is a Garden
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Brick by Brick
Giuliano Ferri
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
Marianna Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard + Jennifer Zivoin
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Rosa Parks
Lisbeth Kaiser
AntiRacist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
Anastasia Higginbotham
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy
Susan Verde + Peter H. Reynolds
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
Meena Harris + Ana Ramierz Gonzalez
This Book is Anti Racist
Tiffany Jewell + Aurelia Durand
Just Like Me
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson + Rafael Lopez
We March
Shane W. Evans
We’re Different, We’re The Same, And We’re All Wonderful (Sesame Street)
Bobbi Kates + Joe Mathieu
Teach Your Dragon About Diversity
Steve Herman
Skin Like Mine
LaTashia M. Perry + Bea Jackson
Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
Shana Keller + Kayla Stark
Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Vivian Kirkfield + Alleanna Harris
Say Her Name (Poems to Empower)
Zetta Elliot + Loveis Wise
Race Cars: A children’s book about white privilege
Jenny Devenny
All Are Welcome
Alexandra Penfold + Suzanne Kaufman
Strictly No Elephants
Lisa Mantchev + Taeeun Yoo
Civil Rights Then and Now: A Timeline of the Fight for Equality in America
Kristina Brooke Daniele + Lindsey Bailey
Whoever You Are
Mem Fox + Leslie Staub
Sulwe
Lupita Nyong’o + Vashti Harrison
New Kid
Jerry Craft
Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
Lea Lyon, Alexandria LaFaye + Jessica Gibson
Black is a Rainbow Color
Angela Joy + Ekua Holmes
Let the Children March
Monica Clark-Robinson + Frank Morrison
A is for Activist
Innosanto Nagara
20 Books About Race, Systemic Racism and White Privilege Every White Adult Should Read
We’re all seeking to listen, learn and educate ourselves on how to be an ally in the Black Lives Matter movement so we can support, act and help make a difference in stamping out systemic racism, discrimination and oppression. Education is key and these 20 books for adults about race, white privilege and the history of systemic racism are a great place to start.
Please add any recommendations to the list in the comments below.
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
So You Want To Talk About Race?
Ijeoma Oluo
I’m Still Here
Austin Channing Brown
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
White Rage
Carol Anderson
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Blindspot
Mahzarin R. Banaji
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
The Fire This Time
Jesmyn Ward
Me and White Supremacy
Layla F. Saad
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria
Beverly Daniel Tatum
How To Be An Antiracist
Imbram X. Kendi
Between The World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Raising White Kids
Jennifer Harvey
They Can’t Kill Us All
Wesley Lowry
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Biased
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Organizations to support
NAACP
@naacp
ACLU
@aclu_nationwide
Campaign Zero
@campaignzero
Minnesota Freedom Fund
@mnfreedomfund
The National Police Accountability Project
@npap_nlg
National Bail Out
@nationalbailout
Know Your Rights Camp
@yourrightscamp
Reclaim The Block
@reclaimtheblock
Black Womens Blueprint
@blackwomensblueprint
Color of Change
@colorofchange
Black Lives Matter
@blklivesmatter
UndocuBlack Network
@undocublack
George Floyd Memorial Fund
gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
Black Visions Collective
@blackvisionscollective
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
@_beamorg
Equal Justice Initiative
@eji_org
Folks to Follow
@blackandembodied
@jessicawilson.msrd
@amandascgorman
@amberkgoodwin
@amenabee
@austinchanning
@badassboz
@beabridgebuilder
@berniceaking
@ckyourprivilege
@cleowade
@eji_org
@ibramxk
@ijeomaoluo
@jamiaawilson
@latashamorrison
@laylafsaad
@luvvie
@mspackyetti
@rachel.cargle
@taranajaneen
@theconsciouskid