Antiracism Resources

Suggested Reading

• The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System, by David Barton Smith

• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel

• How to Be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin Diangelo

• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Olua

• Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness, by Michelle Alexander

• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Witnessing Whiteness, by Shelly Tochluk

• killing rage: Ending Racism, by bell hooks

• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

• Learning to Be White: Money, Race and God in America, by Rev. Thandeka

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

• A Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine can be found here

• Many, many more here or here or here 

• Another great, full list of Anti-Racist Resources can be found here 

Suggested Children's Books

• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcom X by Ilyasah Shabazz

• Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

• Global Babies (A Book Series) – by The Global Fund for Children

• Any Book Authored by Ezra Jack Keats

• Grace for President (Grace Series) by Kelly DiPucchio

Films

• Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

• White Like Me

• 13th (Netflix Documentary)

• Race: The Power of an Illusion

• I am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin

• What Matters: #BLM Documentary series

• Just Mercy: Documentary with Bryan Stevenson, now streaming free on several platforms

• The Color of Fear (Documentary by Lee Mun Wah)

• Selma

• When They See Us

Audio

• Seeing White: Scene on Radio (Podcast series on whiteness)

• 1619 (NY Times Podcast)

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

Articles and Essays

• Guide to Allyship (What it means to be an ‘Ally’)

• Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why and How

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh

• A Brief History of Slavery, NY Times

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• 5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence, by SURJ

• Relinquishing the Patriarchy, adrienne maree brown

• Calling In and Calling Out, by Roxy Manning

• I’m not White, I’m Jewish: Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel

• This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, ‘How Are You Today? by LaShyra "Lash"Nolan

• Medical Schools Have been Historically Wrong on Race by Damon Tweedy

• Structural Solutions for the Rarest of the Rare — Underrepresented-Minority Faculty in Medical Subspecialties by Kemi M. Doll, M.D., and Charles R. Thomas, Jr., M.D.

• Medical schools need to do much more to protect students of color from racism by Christle Nwora, MD

• Beyond The Obligatory Statement: Here Are 5 Things Organizations Can Do To Meaningfully Combat Racism by Amber Spry

• "Real Talk": How Physicians Can Have Healthier Conversations about Race and Racism by Adrian Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, FAPA, Medical Director, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Organizations

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ, local chapters nation-wide)

• M4BL: Movement for Black Lives

• MDP105 (Local Minneapolis Org working towards police-free city)

• Critical Resistance

• Black Lives Matter

• Poor People’s Campaign

• ACLU

• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

• Southern Poverty Law Center

• Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation

• Anti Police-Terror Project

• Transform Harm Resource Hub

• Racial Equity Institute – The Groundwater Approach

Places to Donate

• Immediate Legal Services for Protesters

• National Bail Out – "a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration"

• Minnesota Freedom Fund – community-based nonprofit that pays criminal bail & immigration bonds for individuals who have been arrested while protesting police brutality

• Louisville Community Bail Fund – provides bail and post-release support for those demonstrating on behalf of Breonna Taylor

• Cash Funds for Families

• George Floyd Memorial Fund

• Ahmaud Arbery Fund

• Organizations Addressing Police Violence

• Black Lives Matter – Donations

• Campaign Zero – Focuses on "data-driven policy solutions to end this violence and hold police accountable"

• Black Visions Collective – Minnesota-based organization "dedicated to Black liberation and to collective liberation"

• Reclaim the Block – Minneapolis community organization aiming to divest from the "police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety"

• Anti Police Terror Project – "Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color"