​​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.

Digital Resources 
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The National Museum of African American History & Culture 

National Center For Civil and Human Rights 

Anti-Racism Resources in Spanish 

Freedom's Journal ​

​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?

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Suggested Reading List 
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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.
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
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
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
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