This page is intended to provide general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to current dialogues within the Nyack Community. This guide is by no means an exhaustive list nor does it capture all of the many facets of the larger conversations about the issues listed here. This page serves as an introduction to these issues and as a starting place for finding information from a variety of sources.
This page will continue to be updated with new sources.
This page will continue to be updated with new sources.
Digital Resources
65 Resources for Racial Health and Equity
Asian-American Racial Justice Toolkit
1619 by the New York Times
Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
21 Day Equity Challenge
Racial Violence in America: Whitewashing of American Racism
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
The National Museum of African American History & Culture
National Center For Civil and Human Rights
Anti-Racism Resources in Spanish
Anti-Racism Resource Guide
Freedom's Journal
Black Lives Matter Syllabus
How To Be An Ally
Resources for Accountability And Actions For Black Lives Matter
Anti-Racist Books for Children and Teens
Teaching For Racial Equity and Inclusion
What Is Racism?
What is Systemic Racism?
What Will It Take For America to Understand the Pain of Black Women?
Suggested Reading List
America's Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallace
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blindspot : Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin Banaji
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons - Imani Perry
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Citizen : An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
The Color of Law - Rothstein, Richard
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul - Eddie Glaude Jr.
Divided By Faith - Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions - Vilna Bashi Treitler
Fences - August Wilson
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race - Jesmyn Ward
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered - Mumia Abu-Jamal
How To Be Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide - Crystal Marie Fleming
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
Minor Feelings - Cathay Park Hong
My Song: A Memoir - Harry Belafonte
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Race Matters - Cornel West
Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeome Oluo
Stamped From The Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens our Future - Thomas M Shapiro
The Warmth of Other Suns the Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nahisi Coates
When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
White Fragility- Robin J Diangelo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Renni Eddo-Lodge
Suggested Reading List
America's Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallace
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blindspot : Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin Banaji
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons - Imani Perry
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Citizen : An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
The Color of Law - Rothstein, Richard
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul - Eddie Glaude Jr.
Divided By Faith - Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions - Vilna Bashi Treitler
Fences - August Wilson
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race - Jesmyn Ward
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered - Mumia Abu-Jamal
How To Be Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide - Crystal Marie Fleming
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
Minor Feelings - Cathay Park Hong
My Song: A Memoir - Harry Belafonte
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Race Matters - Cornel West
Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeome Oluo
Stamped From The Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens our Future - Thomas M Shapiro
The Warmth of Other Suns the Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nahisi Coates
When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
White Fragility- Robin J Diangelo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Renni Eddo-Lodge
Movies and Documentaries
Fences
Blindspotting
Do the Right Thing
Fruitvale Station
Moonlight
Get Out
Selma
The Hate You Give
To Kill a Mockingbird
Malcolm X
Black Panther
12 Years A Slave
Boyz N the Hood
The Butler
If Beale Street Could Talk
Clemency
Blackkklansman
Loving
Whose Streets?
I Am Not Your Negro
The Rape of Recy Taylor
Available For Free Streaming On Kanopy and Hoopla
I Am Not Your Negro
Slavery By Another Name
The Loving Story
A Man Named Pearl
You Laugh But Its True
Complexions
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Spies of Mississippi
Dark Girls
Night Catches Us
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer
Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
Keep Your Head Up
White Like Me
How Racism Harms White Americans
Afraid of Dark
Look and Listen
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Black On Both Sides - Mos Def
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
A Seat At The Table - Solange
Radio Silence - Talib Kweli
4:44 - Jay-Z
Black America Again - Common
Chapter 319 - Clipping
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Black On Both Sides - Mos Def
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
A Seat At The Table - Solange
Radio Silence - Talib Kweli
4:44 - Jay-Z
Black America Again - Common
Chapter 319 - Clipping
Local Organizations
Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center
Nobody Leaves MidHudson
Undoing Racism Workshop
Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center
Nobody Leaves MidHudson
Undoing Racism Workshop