Antiracist Resources

Our Commitment to Inclusion: A Statement from Berklee's Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Books and Speeches by Black Scholars, Activists, and Change Agents (login required): A curated list from the Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Berklee Library Black Lives Matter LibGuide: A guide with resources on how to become an advocate for change

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: An extensive guide to learn about what it means to be antiracist, with guided learning tools

The Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's reading list on Black liberation

The Antiracism Center: Antiracist research and policy work

"Mapping Our Social Change Roles": Author, activist, and lawyer Deepa Iyer on how to identify and map out your role in social change

GirlTrek’s Black History Boot Camp: A 21-day walking meditation on the activism of African American women throughout history

"This List of Books, Films, and Podcasts About Racism Is a Start, Not a Panacea": An article about and curated list of books, films, and podcasts about racism from NPR's Code Switch

Good Good Good: Antiracism articles, books, podcasts, and more

Resources to Fight Racism and Unconscious Bias: A robust and extensive list of antiracist resources from RespectAbility

Microaggressions: A Tumblr blog that highlights everyday microaggressions 

Race Forward: A collection of interactive racial justice trainings with strategies on how to address structural racism and advance racial equity 

Showing up for Racial Justice: Useful resources for creating antiracist organizations, campaign strategies, organizing tools, leading workshops, and more

The 1619 Project: An initiative from the New York Times Magazine that reframes U.S. history by placing slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of our nation's story

Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity: A discussion of tools for confronting white privilege and culture that explores how racial disparities are driven and maintained by public and private-sector policies, capacity building, and organizational change

Racial Equity Resource Guide from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation: A glossary of terms and discussion on racial equity and structural racism

"The Case for Reparations": Ta-Nehisi Coates's landmark article for The Atlantic

"272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?": A New York Times story about how Georgetown University is grappling with its legacy of slavery

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement: A collection of essays, interviews, and speeches by world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis on the struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world

Women, Race, and Class: A critical study by Angela Y. Davis of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from its abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders

Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center: A book by author, professor, and activist Bell Hooks, considered key reading for the feminist movement

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism: Robin DiAngelo's book exploring why white people implode when talking about race

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations About Race: A book by psychologist and former Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum that argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides

The New Jim Crow: A book by civil rights litigator and legal rights scholar Michelle Alexander about the rebirth of a caste-like system in the U.S. that led to millions of African Americans going to prison and then being relegated to a permanent second-class status

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: A critical essay by feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist Audre Lorde on the importance of intersectionality and inclusiveness that asks, “What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy?”

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches: A collection of essays by Audre Lorde that takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment: An important work in Black feminist theory by Patricia Hill Collins that offers an interpretive framework for the work of prominent Black feminist thinkers including Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde

Seeing White: A 14-part podcast documentary that unpacks of issues of whiteness and raises questions such as "Where did the notion of whiteness come from?” and “What is whiteness for?"

"A Letter from Young Asian Americans to Their Families About Black Lives Matter": NPR's Code Switch podcast episode discussing Christina Hu’s Letters for Black Lives project

Angela Y. Davis: How Does Change Happen?: Insights on what strategies for change have made an impact historically and what may do so in the contemporary moment

Alice Walker Reads Her Poem “Gather”

Martin Luther King Jr. on the Structural Economic Issues Faced by African Americans