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Black Lives Matter

This resource guide is a living document in support of Black Lives Matter. New resources will be continually added over time.

Additional Resource Lists

10 Black Authors Everyone Should Read – PBS
13 great books about the Black experience in America – LA Times
15+ Books on Racial Justice & Technology – UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
An Anti-Racist Graphic Novel Reading List – Publisher's Weekly (2020)
An Anti-Racist Reading List – Ibram X. Kendi in NYTimes (2019)
BLM Reading List – Radicalize
Early Childhood Anti-Bias Education Booklists – Social Justice Books: A Teaching for Change Project
Let's Talk About Anti-Blackness – a teaching guide from Yes! Magazine, 2020
NoName's Book Club
Resources and Accountability for Black Lives – document created by Carlisa Johnson (2020)
The Zora Canon: 100 Best Albums by African American Women – Zora on Medium
The Zora Canon: 100 Greatest Books Written by African American Women – Zora on Medium
What to read, listen to and watch to learn about institutional racism – PBS NewsHour (2020)

Relevant Articles and Essays

As Non-Black POC, We Need to Address Anti-Blackness – Ana Cecelia Perez, Yes! Magazine, July 2020
Opinion: Want to tear down insidious monuments to racism and segregation? Bulldoze L.A. freeways – Matthew Fleischer, LA Times, June 24, 2020
The Trayvon Generation – Elizabeth Alexander, The New Yorker, June 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter protests spotlight environmental racism – Ben Pivon, Al Jazeera, June 19, 2020
Confronting Symbols of Segregation and Racial Inequality – Equal Justice Initiative, June 11, 2020
Tragic Death of George Floyd Reveals Continuing Problem of Police Violence – Equal Justice Initiative, May 27, 2020
Black Lives Matter and America’s long history of resisting civil rights protesters – Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, April 2016
The Mattering of Black Lives – Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, March 2016
The 1619 Project: an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. – Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, ongoing
The Case for Reparations – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014