Combating Racism

Nyack Library Statement Condemning Racial Injustice

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

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
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
Race Matters - Cornel West
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

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

Local Organizations

Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center
Nobody Leaves MidHudson
Undoing Racism Workshop