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Related Books

• Courageous Conversations About Race
• The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by Deray McKesson
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• The Day Tajon Got Shot by Beacan House Teen Writers
• How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
• Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Related Articles and Web Resources

• The Murder of Emmett Till/Library of Congress
• They Shared a Bunk Bed Growing Up. Both Were Killed by the Police. By Joseph Goldstein
• The Matter of Black Lives by Jelani Cobb
• The New Yorker Charts the Rise of Black Lives Matter – NPR Keely McEvers talks with Jelani Cobb
• The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S. by Katie Nodjimbadem
• Wanted: A Kinder, Gentler Cop by Richard Rayner (Jan. 22, 1995)
• The Pain of Police Killings Can Last Decades by Ben Greenberg (8/25/2016)
• How to Raise a Black Son in America by Clint Smith
• Three Ways to Speak English by Jamila Lyiscott
• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them by Verna Myers
• An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter

Related Podcasts

• Code Switch: Ever find yourself in a conversation about race and identity where you just get…stuck? Code Switch can help. We’re all journalists of color, and this isn’t just the work we do. It’s the lives we lead. Sometimes, we’ll make you laugh. Other times, you’ll get uncomfortable. But we’ll always be unflinchingly honest and empathetic. Come mix it up with us.
• Identity Politics: co-hosts Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali talk about race, gender, and Muslim life in the United States. They cover topics ranging from politics to pop culture, inviting guests to discuss issues that affect their lives as Muslims, along with the multiple other identities that intersect with their religion.
• Microphone Check: a conversation with and led by hip-hop culture.
• Our National Conversation About Conversations About Race: lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.
• Questlove Supreme: Black Music and Culture. The show began as an extension of the music courses Questlove taught at NYU and is what he calls “black nerd version of NPR.”
• Race Matters: Race Matters addresses race in a world that is often afraid to even say the word. Their approach in naming and addressing oppressive systems head on results in many rich conversations where they explore things that aren’t discussed by main stream media like black, Latina and white feminism and what the difference in those ideologies is and why they’re separate to begin with.
• The Stoop: highlights Blackness by digging deeper into stories that we don’t hear enough about.