• Before You Call the Cops - Tyler Merritt Project

• The Path to Ending Systemic Racism in the US (2020) – Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
  In a time of mourning and anger over the ongoing violence inflicted on Black communities by police in the US and the lack of accountability from national leadership, what is the path forward? Sharing urgent insights into this historic moment, Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King and Anthony D. Romero discuss dismantling the systems of oppression and racism responsible for tragedies like the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and far too many others — and explore how the US can start to live up to its ideals. (This discussion, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded on June 3, 2020.)
  
  
• Clint Smith TED Radio Hour
  The Danger of Silence (2014) – Clint Smith
  "We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice.
  
  
• How Racism Makes Us Sick (2016) – David R. Williams
  Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system — and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.
  
  
• What it Takes to be Racially Literate (2017) – Priya Gulchi & Winona Guo
  Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo traveled to all 50 US states, collecting personal stories about race and intersectionality. Now they're on a mission to equip every American with the tools to understand, navigate and improve a world structured by racial division. In a dynamic talk, Vulchi and Guo pair the personal stories they've collected with research and statistics to reveal two fundamental gaps in our racial literacy — and how we can overcome them.
  
  
• How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them (2014) - Verna Myers
  Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.
  
  
• Colorblind or Color Brave? (2014) – Melody Hobson
  The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Mellody Hobson says, it's a "conversational third rail." But, she says, that's exactly why we need to start talking about it. In this engaging, persuasive talk, Hobson makes the case that speaking openly about race — and particularly about diversity in hiring — makes for better businesses and a better society.

• Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death is a Lot
  
  
• ‘Go for it, dream big, work hard and persist’: A message to the next generation of CF leaders in recognition of International Women’s Day 2020 – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
  
  
• The Conscious Kid – Critical Conversations - Diverse children's book library centering on underrepresented and oppressed groups
  
  
• Performative Allyship is Dead: Here’s What to Do Instead
  
  
• Healthcare Groups Speak Out About George Floyd Killing, Nationwide Protests
  
  
• This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, ‘How Are You Today?’
  
  
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
  
  
• Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma
  
  
• Black Teen Shares The Rules His Mom Makes Him Follow When Leaving The House
  
  
• Protests could erode racism

Statements:

• American Hospital Association’s Statement on George Floyd’s Death and Unrest in America
  
  
• ATS Responds to the Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Events
  
  
• American Psychological Association President

Resource Guides

• Anti-Racism Resources
• Toolkit for People of Color
• Guide to Allyship
• Southern Poverty Law Speak Up Handbook

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
  

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

  In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
  

• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji

  I know my own mind.
  I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.
  
  These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. “Blindspot” is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential.
  

• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele

  Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.
  

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair--and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?
  

  In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
  

• Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation by Derald Wing Sue

  Written by bestselling author Derald Wing Sue, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation is a first-of-its-kind guide on the subject of microaggressions. This book insightfully looks at the various kinds of microaggressions and their psychological effects on both perpetrators and their targets. Thought provoking and timely, Dr. Sue suggests realistic and optimistic guidance for combating―and ending―microaggressions in our society.
  

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
  

• The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  Alexander explains how the United States criminal justice system functions as a system of racial control. By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and other movements that have decimated communities of color, millions of people are permanently relegated to second-class status by a system that formally follows principles of colorblindness.
  
  
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
  
  
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
  Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America.
  

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  Coates attempts to answer the questions of racism in a letter to his son. He takes the biggest concerns of racist American history and frames them through personal stories of his racial awakening.
  

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  Rothstein methodically analyzes laws that have maintained and further facilitated racial segregation and inequity.
  

• Evicted by Matthew DesmondBased on years of fieldwork, this book follows eight families in Milwaukee and illustrates how our housing system perpetuates economic exploitation that disproportionately impacts communities of color.

• Homeward by Bruce Western
  Western depicts life upon prison release as former prisoners attempt to reenter society by describing the lives of the formerly incarcerated and demonstrating how poverty, racial inequity, and lack of social support lead to cycles of vulnerability.
  

• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
  Cooper answers the question, “So what if it’s true that Black women are angry,” spells out why Black women have the right to be, and explains just why anger is a powerful source of energy.
  

Books for Teens/Tweens

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi

  A teen-friendly spin on Ibram Xendi’s Stamped from the Beginning, this book explains how racism has been used to gain and keep power by revealing the history of racist ideas and inspiring anti-racist action and hope for the future.

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  A brilliant young adult novel about the aftermath of a Black teen boy’s death as a result of police violence.

• All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

  A side-by-side story of a racist act of police brutality told by the Black boy who was assaulted and the white boy who witnessed the act.
  

• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot and killed by police for playing with a toy gun. Narrated by his ghost, the book draws connections through history to today in a way that makes sense to middle-grade children.