Other Resources

The following materials were primarily compiled by panelists and attendees of the Virtual Series: From Acknowledgment to Action, Session One.

BOOKS

• The Color of Law, by Richard Rothenstein
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, by Mehrsa Baradaran
• The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
• Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matt Desmond
• Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, by Conor Dougherty
• Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Properties in America’s Black Cities, by Andre Perry
• My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
• The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, by Dolly Chugh
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 
• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
• Waking Up White, by Debby Irving
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
• 7 Books You Need to Read on the Intersection of Race and Architecture in America
• 8 must read books on US land use and housing policy

LISTEN

• 1916
• All My Relations
• Code Switch
• The Land That Never Has Been Yet
• Nice White Parents (podcast Google, Apple)
• Seeing White
• We Live Here

WATCH

• 13th
• Race – The Power of an Illusion
• Recordings from the 2021 Summit
• Recordings from the 2020 Summit

ARTICLES:

• The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What is Owed, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• The 1619 Project (The New York Times Magazine)

GET INVOLVED:

National Organizations:

• Black Futures Lab
• Color of Change
• Native American Rights Fund
• The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations

• Commit to the Diversity Action Alliance and Adopt/Champion/Track
  • https://www.diversityactionalliance.org/
• Get involved in the Equal Justice Initiative
  • https://eji.org/get-involved/
  • Check on what organizations are active in your region 
    • https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/volunteer-organizations-10-06-20.pdf
  • Organize a Community Remembrance coalition
    • https://eji.org/projects/community-remembrance-project/
• Join the ACLU
  • https://www.aclu.org/
  • Look up the events in your region and get involved
    • https://www.aclu.org/action/
• Use your buying power to support Black-Owned Food Business
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/19uM-DEU7urJp9_150AZvbI0frgP9VfvN_8NCdwn-t6Y/edit
• Donate your services to organizations that help mentor small businesses
  • https://aeoworks.org/mainstreetrise/
    • “More than 90% of all businesses in this country and 96% of all black-owned businesses in this country are microbusinesses”
    • https://aeoworks.org/mainstreetrisepartners/
• Start a mentorship program in your company or organization
  • https://www.score.org/
    • SCORE, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship.
• Look into doing a workshop with your company that is focused on anti-racist efforts
  • The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond https://www.pisab.org/
    • Undoing Racism Community Organizing Workshop
      • https://www.pisab.org/programs/
  • Allies for Change Workshops https://www.alliesforchange.org/programs
    • Beyond Good Intentions: An Anti-Racism Workshop for White People
      • https://www.alliesforchange.org/programs/#Intentions
    • Understanding Privilege and Oppression
      • https://www.alliesforchange.org/programs/#Understanding
  • Racial Equity Tools https://www.racialequitytools.org/home
    • RaceWorks Toolkit from Stanford/SPARQtools
      • http://sparqtools.org/raceworks-instructions/
  • Seeds for Change – In-Depth Guide – Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops
    • https://seedsforchange.org.uk/tools.pdf