WLD's Anti-Racism Resources

Please take a look at this list of resources, provided by the Women and the Law Division Executive Committee, designed to help educate on race and justice.

Documentaries:

• “13th” (Netflix) 
• “Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap” (Netflix)  
• “I Am Not Your Negro” (Amazon Prime)
• “Teach Us All” (Netflix)  
• “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” (Netflix) 
• “The Loving Story” (HBO, Hulu, Tubi and Vudu)

Films/TV Shows:

• "Just Mercy” (Amazon Prime) 
• "Selma” (Amazon Prime)
• "The Hate U Give” (Hulu) 
• “When They See Us” (Netflix)

Non-Fiction Books:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAnglo
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga 
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Fiction Books/Poetry:

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Additional Reading:

• Anti-racism resources
• Antiracist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages from the Evanston Public Library
• The antiracist resources Fortune staffers are reading and sharing from Fortune
• A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources from Medium
• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies from Sojourners
• Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways from Vox
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not from Refinery29
• 2020 is not 1968

Indianapolis black-owned food businesses to support

Additional resources:

• Advancement Project
• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation  
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
• National Black Child Development Institute
• National Center for Law and Economic Justice
• People’s Action Institute
• Race Forward
• Raheem
• Shriver Center on Poverty
• Strategies for Youth
• The Urban League

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