Race, Justice, Equity & Love Resource List

Race, Justice, Equity & Love Resource List

Those working on this effort within the Inayatiyya recommend the following resources. We challenge you to pick one resource and, after you’ve read/watched/listened to it, to post something you’ve learned here.

Movies

• 13^th. Ana DuVernay’s Movie Now Provided Free by Netflix via Youtube
• I Am Not Your Negro (Netflix)
• Just Mercy (Multiple Platforms)
• Do the Right Thing (Multiple Platforms)
• If Beale St Could Talk (Hulu; Multiple Platforms)
• The Hate U Give (Multiple Platforms; Free in June)
• Get Out (Multiple Platforms)
• Selma (Multiple Platforms; Free in June)

Television

• When They See Us (Netflix)
• Watchmen (HBO)
• Insecure (HBO)
• Dear White People (Netflix)
• Atlanta (FX & Hulu)
• Black-ish (ABC & Hulu)

Podcasts

• Seeing White – Scene on Radio – Season One and Two
• Code Switch: NPR (some episodes deal with race)
• American Police on NPR with Khalil Gibran Muhammad 
• Ruby Sales – Where Does It Hurt?
• Angel Kyodo Williams – The World Is Our Field of Practice
• Ta-Nehisi Coates – Imagining a New America
• Isabel Wilkerson – The Heart Is the Last Frontier

Websites

• Talking About Race
• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
• Black Youth Matters: Understanding Mental Health Issues among Black Teens
• Drug Rehab USA Mental Healing Issues Among Black Men
• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
• What You Need to Know About Addiction in the BIPOC Community

Articles

• The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic
• The U.S. Has ‘Broken the Contract with Black America’
• Why the U.S. Needs to do Reparations Now: An Interview with Law ProfessorMehrsa Baradaran
• 1619 Project
• How to Address Trauma Related to Curriculum Violence

Books

There are many books to read! See here for a list of Black Owned Independent Bookstores from which to order your books.

• Waking up White by Debbie Campbell (if you don’t see color)
• Mindful of Race by Ruth King
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menachem
• Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire Thus Time by Jesmyn Ward
• Radical Dharma:  Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
• From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William Darity

And here is a list of suggested books for children suggested by PBS.

Organizations

• Black Lives Matter
• The Poor People’s Campaign
• Revolutionary Love Project
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Campaign Zero
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• ACLU
• Black Visions Collective
• Innocence Project
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Regional Bail Funds

And let’s not forget to discover and support black business owners, restauranteurs, farmers, and artists, particularly within our local communities.

BRITISH RESOURCES

Here are a few resources as recommended by Layla F. Saad on Instagram.

Books

• Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsh
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People Abode Race by Reno Eddo-Lodge
• Think Like a White Man – Conquering the World…While Black by Nels Abby
• The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What it means to be Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic in Britain Today by Nikesh Shukla
• I Am Not Your Baby Mother: What It’s Like to be a Black British Mother by Candice Brathwaite
• Girl, Women, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
• Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
• Memoirs of a Black Englishman by Paul Stephenson, OBE
• Superioer: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
• White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society by Kalwant Bhopal
• It’s Note About the Burqa edited by Mariam Khan
• How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race & Reality by Adam Rutherford
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Podcasts

• Podcasts About the Black British Experience & Race in the UK