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Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin
Anything by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker or Toni Morrison
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christians’ Pilgrimage in Search of God in America by Jeff Chu
Educated by Tara Westover
Ferguson and Faith by Leah Gunning Francis
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People by Terence Lester
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
More Myself by Alicia Keys
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice
One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins by Emmy Kegler
Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy by Maggie Anderson
Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness by Cindy Wang Brandt
Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness by Cindy Wang Brandt
Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up by Kathy Khang
Reading for Diversity and Social Justice edited by Maurianne Adams
Reimagining the Human: Theological Anthropology in Response to Systemic Evil by Eleazar S. Fernandez
See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
Shalom Sistas: Living Wholeheartedly in a Brokenhearted World by Osheta Moore
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The God Who Sees: My Journey to Belong by Karen Gonzalez
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir by Ruth Wariner
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God and Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
White Like Me: Reflections on Race by a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

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Books for Teens

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
The Hate You Give and On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Books for Kids

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
I Am Not a Number by Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis
Let’s Talk About Race by Julis Lester
Neither by Airlie Anderson
Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds
We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner
You Matter by Christian Robinson

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Other Media

12 Years a Slave (movie on Netflix)
13th (movie on Netflix)
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Dear White People (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro (movie on Amazon Prime Video)
Just Mercy (movie on Amazon Prime)
Lisa Sharon Harper & Jen Hatmaker conversation (posted on Facebook)
Little Fires Everywhere (series on Hulu)
Podcast @firstname.basis (How to Talk to Your Children About Racism)
Podcast @soundsofjustice
Podcast: Brene’ Brown (with Ibram X. Kendi, with Austin Channing Brown, with Celeste Ng)
Quest (documentary)
Selma (movie on Amazon Prime)
Teach Us All (movie on Netflix)
The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery (from Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity Church, Chicago)
The House I Live In (documentary)
This Shouldn’t Be Normal
Trevor Noah – thoughts on George Floyd (posted on Facebook)
When They See Us (movie on Netflix)

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@om3 (Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III)

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