Articles
- Coaching Through a Gender Lens
by Women's Sport Foundation - Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others
by Pepperdine University's online Master of Psychology program - Drive the Boat: A Rich History of Black Sailing Groups in the U.S
by Travel Noire - Harvard Business Review Articles
- Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?
Leaders must start by reckoning with their Black employees’ experiences at work. (June 2020) - How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of Black Employees
Few leaders have the skills and training to confront the trauma caused by racism. (June 2020) - U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
Here’s what leaders can do today. (June 2020) - How U.S. Companies Can Support Employees of Color Through the Pandemic
Though we say we’re all in this together, we’re not all in the same boat. (May 2020) - Toward a Racially Just Workplace
Diversity efforts are failing Black employees. Here’s a better approach. (November 2019) - “Dear White Boss…”
Unsaid words from a Black manager. (November 2002) - Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn’t Declined in 25 Years
A meta-analysis of job callback rates. (October 2017) - Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?
A look at U.S. cities shows progress has been slow and uneven. (February 2018) - People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It
They become more disengaged and more likely to leave. (July 2017) - Even at “Inclusive” Companies, Women of Color Don’t Feel Supported
This can prevent employees from connecting across ethnic and racial differences. (August 2019) - Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity
Advice for leaders who are afraid of saying the wrong thing. (November 2019) - How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion. (November 2019) - How to Reduce Personal Bias When Hiring
Six steps you can implement. (June 2019) - Why Diversity Programs Fail
And what works better for organizations. (July 2016) - “Numbers Only Take Us So Far”
Facebook’s global director of diversity explains why stats alone won’t solve the problem of organizational bias. (November 2017)
- Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?
Essays
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
- Fight of the Century (2020) edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? (2020) by Ibram X. Kendi
- Dear White Women (2018) by Victoria Rodriguez
- The Racist Roots of American Policing (2019) by Connie Hassett-Walker
- Passing, in Moments (2019) by Mat Johnson
- You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument (Jun.2020) by Caroline Randall Williams: the author discusses the rape of black women by white slave owners and the men’s refusal to acknowledge their children.
- This Monument to White Supremacy Hides in Plain Sight (Jun. 2020) by Richard White
- Are You willing to Give Up Your Privilege (Jun. 2020) by Darren Walker (Ford Foundation)
- Disrupting a Racist Joke in a Group of White People (Jun. 2020) by Annie Reneau
Non-Fiction Books
- White Fragility (2019) by Robin DiAngelo
- So You Want To Talk About Race (2019) by Ijeoma Oluo
- How to Be an Antiracist (2019) by Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me (2015) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Me and White Supremacy (2020) by Layla F. Saad
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020) by Mikki Kendall
- Stamped from the Beginning (2016) by Ibram X. Kendi
- This Book is Anti-Racist (2020) by Tiffany Jewell – KID
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (2017) by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Well-Read Black Girl (2018) by Glory Edim
- More than Enough (2019) by Elaine Welteroth
- The New Jim Crow (2017) by Michelle Alexander
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Thick (2018) by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race (2017) by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot
- Black Feminist Thought (2002) by Patricia Hill Collins
- Just Mercy (2014) by Bryan Stevenson
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (2020) by Jason Reynolds / Ibram X. Kendi
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker (2019) by Damon Young
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2016) by Carol Anderson
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018) by Brittney Cooper
- Biase: Uncoverring the Hidden Prejudice … (2019) by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- Men We Reaped (2013) by Jesmyn War
- The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) by Isabel Wilkerson
- Slavery by Another Name (2008) by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Good Immigrant (2019) edited by Nikesh Shukla & Chimene Suleyman
- The Devils' Highway (2008) by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Contempt of Court (2001) by Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips, Jr.
- America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) by Erika Lee
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017) by Richard Rothstein
- The Souls of Black Folk (2017) by W.E.B Du Bois
- A Collar in My Pocket: The Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise (2016) by Jane Elliott
Fiction Books
- The Fire Next Time (1992) by James Baldwin
- The Nickel Boys (2019) by Colson Whitehead
- Such a Fun Age (2019) by Kiley Reid
- Red at the Bone (2019) by Jacqueline Woodson
- Homegoing (2016) by Yaa Gyasi
- Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue
- The Water Dancer (2019) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- What We Lose (2017) by Zinzi Clemmons
- The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas
- Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (2009) by Zora Neale Hurston
- Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
- Black is the Body (2019) by Emily Bernard
- The Bluest Eye (2007) by Toni Morrison
- I am Not Your Negro (2017) by James Baldwin
- Barracoon (2018) by Zora Neale Hurston
- Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernadine Evaristo
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (2017) by Erika L. Sanchez
- Native Son (2009) by Richard Wright
- Uncle Tom’s Children (2009) by Richard Wright
- In Love and Trouble (2003) by Alice Walker
- Heads of the Colored People (2018) by Nafissa Thompson Spires
Books for Our Little Ones
- The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids Embrace Our Differences (2020) by Carolyn Helsel
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice (2018) by Marianne Celano
- The Snowy Day (2008) by Ezra Jack Keats
- Each Kindness (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Youngest Marcher: Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks (2017) by Cynthia Levinson
- Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny & Injustice (2020) by V. Chambers
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (2018) by Anastasia Higginbotham
- Ruby Finds a Worry (2019) by Tome Percival
- Sulwe (2019) by Lupita Nyong’o
- A Kids Book About Racism (2020) by Jelani Memory
Further Guidance
- Building a Diverse Board, Virtually (from BoardEffect.com)
- RISE Glossary (Race-related terms and concepts)
- Coretta King Book Awards list of recipients from 1970-Present
- The Conscious Kid
Guides
- Engaging New Audiences (2015) by PGA America