Racial Equity Resources

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power.

A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.

While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice.

Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.

Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it?

This book includes 16 inspiring stories from 16 incredible young women who share their personal advice and wisdom on what it means to them to be Beyond Beautiful. Each chapter is additionally jam packed with fun and practical tips and tricks for studying, self care and staying focused during difficult times.

Recorded in 1991, but still recommended today, in this video of Bill Moyers explores the many faces of hate: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sectarianism, domestic violence. He seeks answers to various questions: do we really understand its roots? Are there practical ways to cope with it? What is hate doing to us? What does hate do for us? Bill Moyers seeks to answer these questions. His search takes him around the world where he talks to people such as Elie Wiesel, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Vaclav Havel and others.

Bridget Biddy Mason, an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was born into slavery. When Biddy arrived in California, where slavery was technically illegal, she was kept captive by her owners and forced to work without pay. But when Biddy learned that she was going to be taken to a slave state, she launched a plan to win her freedom. She refused to be defined by her enslavement, and coauthors Arisa White and Laura Atkins devote much of their narrative to Biddy Mason's later life as a business and civic leader in the fledgling city of Los Angeles.

Reimagines the cycles of the moon as a mother bakes a Big Moon Cookie and, despite Mama's request to wait, Little Star begins nibbling at it every night.

At just over 30 minutes, Jacqueline Battalora, a white former police officer now Professor of Sociology, breaks down how "white people did not exist before 1681" via a lecture with slides on the beginnings of America and its associated socioeconomic ladder and social life at the time.

Recommended by Nehemiah: Center for Urban Leadership Development

An African American girl contemplates the many wonderful black things around her, from the inside of a pocket, where surprises hide, to the cozy night where there is no light.