ANTI-RACISM ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES
Below are ways that you may learn and participate in ongoing and necessary anti-racism work. As Jews we well know about oppression and victimization. Tzedek invites you to read, watch and act! (links are highlighted green)
BOOKLIST (Click for Website)
Scholar and activist Angela Davis (on defunding the police)
Stamped From the Beginning: Ibram X. Kendi
Robin DiAngelo, noted scholar who teaches whites how to be anti-racist
How To Be An Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
Films
The 13th (available on Netflix)
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS series by Henry Louis Gates)
The Truth About the Confederacy (w Jeffery Robinson, ACLU Attorney)
Check Netflix and Amazon Prime listings highlighting Black Lives Matter themed movies and documentaries
Get Involved : Action Links
PODCASTS AND OTHER RESOURCES
Transforming Racism: Shift Network speaker series facilitated by NS Board member Alison Marks (Wide range of speaker videos
Gather DC Solidarity Guide (wonderful comprehensive list of resources)
Jews of color: Be’chol Lashon: Educational resources, stories, articles, and events
At The Well: Guide for Facilitating Anti-Racism Conversations
What White People Can Do to Address Racism Forum(with White Fragility Author Robin DiAngelo)
Breonna Taylor and the Visibility of Black Women Victims of Police Violence Forum
The Dharma of Harriet Tubman (Dan Harris interviews Spring Washam)
An Uncomfortable (But Meaningful) Conversation about Race (Dan Harris interviews Lama Ron Owens)
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is Hopeful (The Ezra Klein Show)
Why the Corona Virus is So Deadly for Black America (The Ezra Klein Show)
James Baldwin/Filmmaker Raoul Peck/Black Athletes & Social Justice (Fresh Air with Terry Gross)
The Militarization of the Police (Fresh Air podcast with Journalist Radley Balko, author of 'Rise Of The Warrior Cop’)
Black Lives Matter and the Question of Violence (Gary Younge)
The Racial Politics of Time: Brittney Cooper