Parenting Articles
Center for Racial Justice in Education. Collection of resources for understanding and talking to kids about racial and social justice issues from real experts.
Raising Race Conscious Children. Ideas about talking to your kids about race.
Parent Magazine has a couple of good articles on talking about racism and black lives matter and on fighting hate at different ages
Oakland Public Library has a wonderful resource of books by age level and articles on racism and justice
By age 5 your kid knows about race
Books for children
NY Times article on children’s books about racism and protests
Common Sense Media (your go to source for movie and book reviews for parents) has lots of lists. Here’s one for racism and social justice. This is a list of books to inspire children to change the world.
Here and here are lists of children’s books about protesting
Antiracist Baby children’s book by Ibram X Kendi
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About A Simple Act of Kindness children’s book by Kerascoet
The Undefeated children’s book by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Blue Sky White Stars children’s book by Sarvinder Naberhaus and Kadir Nelson
Enough: 20 Protesters Who Changed America children’s book by Emily Easton and Ziyue Chen
Heroes for my Son book by Brad Meltzer
Heroes for my Daughter book by Brad Meltzer
A Strong Man: A Fable for Our Times book by Carol Lynn Pearson and Kathleen Peterson
Pup and Bear children’s book by Kate Banks and Naoko Stoop
Wolf in the Snow children’s book by Matthew Cordell
Old Turtle children’s book by Douglas Wood and Cheng-Khee Chee
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky children’s book by Susan Jeffers and Chief Seattle
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse children’s book by Charlie Mackesy
Elmer children’s book by David McKee
For You
We all have implicit biases that affect our decisions and interpretations of events. Check out this self-test to see how you score.
Being an ally (supporting and standing up for people of color) is necessary if racism is going to be minimized. Here are some resources about allyship and how to actually be helpful
- Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
- White people, stop asking us to educate you about racism
- So You Want To Talk About Race book by Ijeoma Oluo
- How to be an Anti-racist book by Ibram X. Kendi
- Guide to Allyship
- When you walk into the valley: On allies asking to be taught about race
You need to know about microaggression
And, your everyday language is also important.
