Podcasts
Code Switch from NPR
1619 from The New York Times
1619 from The New York Times
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story.
1619 from The New York Times
1619 from The New York Times
1619 from The New York Times
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
Intersectionality Matters
1619 from The New York Times
Intersectionality Matters
Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading critical race theorist who coined the term "intersectionality," this podcast brings the academic term to life. Each episode brings together lively political organizers, journalists and writers.
Throughline from NPR
Throughline from NPR
Intersectionality Matters
The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.
Pod Save the People
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Pod Save the People
On Pod Save the People, DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson and De’Ara Balenger. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
There’s also a weekly one-on-one interview with DeRay and special guests, from singer/songwriter John Legend to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The experts, influencers, and diverse local and national leaders who come on the show go deep on social, political, and cultural issues.
Justice in America
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Pod Save the People
A core component of institutionalized racism is the way Black people are criminalized and incarcerated on a mass scale. Hear from experts on the frontlines of criminal justice reform about how to embrace alternatives to policing and incarceration
Books for Educators
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation―until now.
In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain compatible culturally responsive instruction.
We Want to do More than Survive - Bettina Love
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics.
To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination,
The Dreamkeepers
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain - Zaretta Hammond
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood - Christopher Emdin
In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children.
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood - Christopher Emdin
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood - Christopher Emdin
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better.
Multiplication is for White People - Lisa Delpit
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, Delpit concludes that it’s not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. In her wonderful trademark style, punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, Delpit outlines an inspiring and uplifting blueprint for raising expectations for other people’s children, based on the simple premise that multiplication—and every aspect of advanced education—is for everyone.
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Tatum
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America.
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
“Blindspot” is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential.
In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot.
Black Appetite. White Food. -Jamila Lyiscott
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Black Appetite. White Food. invites educators to explore the nuanced manifestations of white privilege as it exists within and beyond the classroom. Renowned speaker and author Jamila Lyiscott provides ideas and tools that teachers, school leaders, and professors can use for awareness, inspiration, and action around racial injustice and inequity.
Not Light, but Fire - Matthew R. Kay
Blind Spot - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Not Light, but Fire - Matthew R. Kay
Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action, “it is not light that is needed, but fire” Matthew Kay has spent his career learning how to lead students through the most difficult race conversations. Kay not only makes the case that high school classrooms are one of the best places to have those conversations, but he also offers a method for getting them right, providing candid guidance on:
Teaching Resources
Teaching Tolerance
Common Sense Education
Teaching for Change
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
Teaching for Change
Common Sense Education
Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.
By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens.
Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education
"A best-of-the-best collection of resources for social justice and equity focused educators."