Racial Justice Resources

RACIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES

The Racial Justice Team at North Shore Unitarian Church is committed to action and awareness around race, justice, and inequality. This is a list of resources that we have created that help to move the conversation forward.

Books On Racial Justice

So You Want to Talk about Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

White Fragility … Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race, by Robin DiAngelo

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria … And Other Conversations About Race (Revised 20th Anniversary Edition), by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

Waking Up White, by Debby Irving

Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson (founder of Equal Justice Initiative)

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson

Evicted, by Matthew Desmond

Policing the Black Man, by Angela Davis

Worse Than Slavery … Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow, by David M. Oshinsky

Not a Crime to be Poor, by Peter Edelman

The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein

They Can’t Kill Us All, by Wesley Lowery

Convicting the Innocent, by Stanley Cohen

Locking Up Our Own, by James Forman, Jr.

The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America, by Natasha Frost & Todd Clear

I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine, by David Chura

Understanding Mass Incarceration, by James Kilgore

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime – Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Hinton

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, by Jonathan Kozol

Racial Justice Podcasts

(Note: Some language in the Podcasts may not be appropriate for kids, depending on your flexibility, but none contain words that should be truly offensive.)

Another Round – Smart conversation with Heben and Tracy, peppered with occasional f-bombs (and then some – not for the young ones). Temporarily on hold as they adjust to losing their prior home (Buzzfeed):

https://www.facebook.com/anotherround/

Code Switch – NPR podcast hosted by Gene Demby and a cast of other guest hosts. Covers various topics around the intersection of race, gender, history and even entertainment:

https://www.facebook.com/NPRCodeSwitch/

https://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch

Pod Save the People – with DeRay McKesson, who rose to prominence in the aftermath of Ferguson, covers current events from the perspective of a black person in America.

https://www.facebook.com/podsavethepeople/

https://www.podsavethepeople.com/

https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/ (archives)

Tapestry – A conversation about race and culture with professors Karlos Hill and Miguel Levario.

https://tapestrypodcast.podbean.com/

https://www.facebook.com/tapestrypodcast/

Racial Justice Ted Talks (partial list)

Many speakers and topics are added weekly. Check the Ted Talks site to find topics and speakers in an array of categories

Bryan Stevenson

Brittney Cooper

Mellody Hobson

David R. Williams