Juneteenth: An Educational Resource List

As an agency, we’re encouraging our team to spend Juneteenth reflecting on the resilience of African-American people and culture, and the deep racial inequality that persists in our society. To aid in those efforts, we have complied a resource list.  

Beyond June 19th, we will continue to educate our teams on social injustice and encourage individuals to continue that work for themselves. As professionals, we are required to have foundational knowledge and do continued research to carry out our job responsibilities. Understanding the diverse experiences of our coworkers, clients, and community is just as important to our performance, and should be an equally high priority.

Videos to Watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives, Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”, Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

• Adam Ruins Everything (6:19) 

• How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them (17:53) 

• How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time (16:43)

• Birth of a White Nation (36:46)

• Angola for Life (13:18)

Films and TV Series to Watch:

• 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

• Detroit — Hulu

• LA 92 — Netflix 

• Paris is Burning — Netflix

Podcasts to Subscribe To:

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

• Seeing White

• Revision Path with Maurice Cherry

Articles to Read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• 163 year archive of most important pieces |The Atlantic

• History of Juneteenth 

• What is Juneteenth? | PBS

• Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity | American Progress  

Books to Read:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  by Michelle Alexander

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
  by Grace Lee Boggs

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

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

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 

Organizations to Follow on Social Media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter

• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Quizzes 

• Project Implicit 

• Look Different 

• What Do You Know About Unconscious Bias?

Games 

• Play Fair | Associated Reading: “Fair Play”: A Videogame Designed to Address Implicit Race Bias Through Active Perspective Taking

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

• The [White] Shift on Instagram

• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

• Penn State Educational Activism Archive – Race and Social Justice

Resources for White Parents to Raise Anti-Racist Children:

Books:

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

• 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

Podcasts:

• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Fare of the Free Child podcast

• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”

Articles:

• PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon