Resources for union members who wish to educate themselves and broaden their understanding of systemic racism in America.
WATCH:
- 13th (Netflix)
- American Son (Netflix)
- If Beale St. Could Talk (Hulu)
- King in the Wilderness (HBO)
- See You Yesterday (Netflix)
- The Hate You Give (Hulu)
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- Selma (Google Play)
- I am Not Your Negro (YouTube)
- Whose Streets? (Hulu)
- LA 92 (Netflix)
- Teach Us All (Netflix)
LISTEN:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters!
- Momentum: A Race Forward
- Pod for the Cause
- Pod Save The People
- Seeing White
- World House
READ:
- How To Be Anti-Racist by Dr. Ibram Kendi
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
- Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- All Labor Has Dignity, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- A Letter From A Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Color of Politics byMichael Goldfield
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist
- The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
- Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
- Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
- Stamped by Dr. Ibram Kendi
- Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
STUDY:
- American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. (free online course/discussion)
- The Great Unlearn (fee-based self-paced curriculum)
Special thanks to Local 1245 Office Manager and EWMC leader Tonya Alston for contributing to this list.
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