RESOURCES:
Black-led arts organizations in the Twin Cities to support:
Anti-Racism Resources for White People: A compilation of books, videos, podcasts, critical essays, and more.
Books:
- A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Edited by Sun Yung Shin
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter
- The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan
- Waking Up White by Debby Irving
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Films and TV series to watch: reprinted from Anti-Racism resources for White People
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Additional Films:
- Becoming (Nadia Hallgren)–Netflix
- Black Boy (California Newsreel)–rent on Vimeo
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)–available to rent
- The Richard and Mildred Loving Story–Biography
- Loving (Jeff Nichols)–available to rent