Racial Equity Resources

In this full-color middle grade graphic memoir, Yehudi Mercado draws inspiration from his childhood struggle with his weight while finding friendship with his imaginary mascot, Chunky, as he navigates growing up in a working class Mexican-Jewish family.

From one child to ten, hands are extended in an ongoing invitation to welcome all kids into a circle of inclusion, friendship, and play.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive.

Tools available from the City of Madison.  The City of Madison is establishing its Racial Equity and Social Justice Initiative (RESJI) as a core principle in all decisions, policies, and functions. Launched in the fall of 2013, the initiative focuses on eliminating racial and social inequities in municipal government by implementing strategies in three main areas: Equity in City policies and budgets; Equity in City operations; and Equity in the community.

Check out all of Helen Oxenbury's delightful board books, featuring sweet and cuddly babies at play: All Fall Down, Say Goodnight and Tickle, Tickle.

An eleven-year-old boy is about to discover that the world hasn’t always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren’t always what they seem–his G’ma included.

Marcos Rivas is desperate to escape the projects, his neglectful mother, and her abusive boyfriend, but when he is picked for a class at his high school targeting smart students who are underperforming, he initially resists.

NPR's Code Switch site includes podcasts and blog entries by a team of journalists that consider the shifting realities of race in all aspects of society.

Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.

Colorlines is a news site founded by Race Forward, a national organization devoted to advancing racial equity through media.  Race matters in the journalism of Colorlines, which covers news from a variety of perspectives and includes groups that are often underrepresented or absent in mainstream media. 

An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, the characters decide their own answer to the question "where are you from?"

With the mission of “Helping, Empowering and Serving the Latino Community since 1989,” La Comunidad News, LLC (LCN) is the most widely read publication by Latinos in Wisconsin.