Provided below are some helpful resources for parents to help talk about race with their kids or with others in general as allies who are trying to be anti-racist. 

Hopefully these resources will be beneficial in navigating through this time. 

For Adults:

Articles and information:

• 9 Phrases Allies can say when called out instead of getting defensive 
• An Age by Age Guide to talking to your kids about racism
• ​Talking to Kids About Racism - early and often (contains link to book list in article)
• A list of 10 documentaries to watch about race
• Working Document for Scaffolding Anti-Racism Resources (discusses stage of white identity development you are at and provides information and long list of resources) 
• This is the conversation about race that we need to have now
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race - resource roundup
• What do we tell our children? (About police brutality and recent murders specifically)
• ​How to Be a Good White Ally According to Activists
• Dear White People, This is what we want you to do

• ​Anti-Racism Resources for Parents and Children
• First Listen, Then Learn. Anti-Racism Resources for White People 
• http://hereweeread.com/instagram ​
• Anti-Racism for Kids 101
• ​How to talk to Teens and Tweens About Racism​
• The Basics of Black Lives Matter - and Why You Need to Act Today

Books for adults: 

• Raising White Kids, Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing
• How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X
• A Drop of Midnight, a Memoir by Jason Diakité
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 
• How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
• Divided Sisters - Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• They Can’t Kill Us All - Wesley Lowery
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
• The Miner’s Canary - Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
• The Wretched of The Earth - Frantz Fanon
• Stamped - Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
• White Rage - Carol Anderson
• My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem
• Beneath the Tamarind Tree - Isha Sesay
• In the Country We Love - Diane Guerrero
• Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper
• Just Mercy- Bryan Stevenson 
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
• Locking Up Our Own by James Forman

Watchlist for adults:

• 13th (Netflix)
• ​American Son (Netflix)
• Dear White People (Netflix)
• If Beale St Could Talk (Hulu)
• King in the Wilderness (HBO)
• See You Yesterday (Netflix)
• The Hate You Give (Cinemax)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• I am Not Your Negro (Netflix)
• Just Mercy (Amazon Prime)
• Selma (Amazon Prime)
• Blindspotting (Amazon Prime)
• LA 92 (Netflix)
• Fruitvale Station (Amazon Prime)
• Strong Island (Netflix) 
• A list of 30 Black Movies and Shows on Netflix 
• 19 Black TV shows to watch
• 14 Films by Black Filmmakers to Watch ​

Podcasts (to listen to)

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• ​Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast 
• Seeing White Parenting Forward podcast episode “Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons”
• Pod For The Cause (Leadership Conf on Civil and Human Rights)
• ​Pod Save the People (Crooked Media) 
• Fare of the Free Child Podcast

Social media accounts to follow: 

• @Hereweread
• @Laylafsaad
• @Austinchanning
• @thegreatunlearn
• @theconsciouskid
• ​@rachel.cargle

For Children:

Children's Books:

• 37 Children’s Books to Help Talk about Discrimination and Race
• 31 Diverse Books for Children
• 21 Children’s Books that Spark Conversations about race
• 10 Children’s books about Racism and Activism
• Books to help explain racism and protests to your kids

Anti-racist books for Kindergarten-5th grade

• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano 
• Not My Idea - Anastasia Higginbotham
• Can I Touch Your Hair by Irene Latham
• I am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• ​A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson ​

Additional Resources:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html
• https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/06/871023438/this-list-of-books-films-and-podcasts-about-racism-is-a-start-not-a-panacea
• https://sowwelltots.com/
• http://hereweeread.com/instagram
• https://linktr.ee/1thatgotawayy
• https://linktr.ee/laylafsaad
• https://www.embracerace.org/resources
  
  

The Thrive family hopes these resources support you and your families during this time. Please reach out with any questions, concerns, suggestions for other resources to include, or if you would like to talk with us about how we can support you or your family during this unprecedented challenge in our world.

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