Forgiveness
Victims on Both Ends of the Gun by Tina Schuster (Author), Tariq Khamisa Foundation (Author)
Peace Through Forgiveness Website by Azim Khamisa
Forgiveness Guided Meditation by Azim Khamisa
“Forgiveness – The Crown Jewel of Personal Freedom” Workbook by Azim Khamisa
“How to Help Your Kids Understand Forgiveness” , featuring Tasreen Khamisa, by The Greater Good Science Center (video)
Forgiveness Articles and More by the Greater Good Sceince Center Magazine
Forgiveness Practices by The Greater Good Science Center In Action
The Forgiveness Project, real life stories about Forgiveness
Resources on Forgiveness by the Fetzer Institute
“The Power of Forgiveness” by Harvard Health Publishing (article)
“Forgiveness: Letting Go of Grudges and Bitterness” by the Mayo Clinic (article)
Healing
“The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit” by Azim Khamisa and Jillian Quinn (book)
“Family-Care, Community-Care and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma”, a Community Healing Network’s Healing Toolkit
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk (book)
“My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies” by Resmaa Menakem (book)
“Healing Resistance”by Kazu Haga (book)
“Putting Healing Back at the Center of Health Care” by Rana L.A. Awdish and Leonard L. Berry, published on the Harvard Business Review (article)
“8 Ways People Recover from Post Childhood Adversity Syndrome” by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (article)
Irresistible, previously the Healing Justice podcast
Anti-Racism Resources
Children
“The Undefeated” by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
“Something Happened In Our Town” by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
“I Am Not A Number” by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
“Anti-Racist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
“Dim Sum For Everyone!”by Grace Lin
“Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez And Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation” by Duncan Tonatuih
“Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock” by Aslan & Kelly Tudor
“The Day You Begin” by Jaqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
“Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom” by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
“Hot Hot Roti for Dada-ji” by F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min
“The Boy And The Wall” by Palestinian Children in the Aida Refugee Camp
“New Kid” by Jerry Craft
Teenagers
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison
“Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
“We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices”
“Genesis Begins Again” by Alicia D. Williams
“Dear Martin” by Nic Stone
“How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
“Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Shakur
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcom X with Alex Haley
“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” by Frederick Douglass
Parents
“The First R: How Children Learn Racism” by Debra Van Ausdale & Joe R. Feagin (white author)
“Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting In America” by Nefertiti Austin
“Teaching Your Kid About Black History Month” (Article) by Nefertiti Austin
“Parenting Forward” by Cindy Wang Brandt
“Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Front Lines” by Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams by
“Raising White Kids:Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America” by Jennifer Harvey
“We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood” by Dani McClain
People Trying to Learn On White Identity & Anti-Racism
“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin Diangelo
“White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo (Short Essay)
Indigenous History
“An Indigneous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Ortiz-Dunbar
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West” by Dee Brown
“500 Years of Indigenous Resistance” by Gord Hill
“The Militarization of Indian Country” by Winona LaDuke
“From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii” by Haunani-Kay Trask
“In Which We Establish That There Was a Genocide Against Native Americans” by Cutcha Risling Baldy
“Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement” by Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall
Black History
“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney
“Black Reconstruction In America” by W. E. B. Dubois
“How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America” by Manning Marable
“How Slaves Built American Capitalism” by Garikai Chengu
“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
“The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X
“Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI Murdered a Black Panther” by Jeffrey Haas
“Women, Race, and Class” by Angela Davis
“Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde”
Resources on Race & Education
“Babies Start Acting Racist Before They Can Talk” by Amanda Hess
“Study: White Students More Likely to Win College Scholarships” by Colorlines
“My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.” by Tunette Powell
“14 Disturbing Stats About Racial Inequality in American Public Schools” by Steven Hsieh
“Studies Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children and the ‘Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline’” by Sonali Kolhatkar
“Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education” by Linda Darling-Hammond
“The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation” created by Dustin Cable
“Why the ‘Sunken Place’ in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ Reminds Me of the Public Education System” by Dubian Ade
“I compared universities to slave plantations to disturb, not discourage” by Kehinde Andrews
“What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” by Indigenous History Wordpress
“The School-to-Prison Pipeline Tragedy on Montana’s American Indian Reservations” by Melina Angelos Healey
Videos
5 Things You Should Know About Racism | Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey
The Unequal Opportunity Race by Erica Pinto
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies in North America
“Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?” (James Baldwin)
“Growing Roses in the Concrete” by Jeff Duncan-Andrade
Settler Colonialism
“Settler Colonialism Primer” by Laura Hurwitz & Shawn Bourque
“What is Settler Colonialism?” by Maya Mikdashi
“Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” by Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang
On Constructing Race & Racism
“A History: The Construction of Race and Racism” by the Dismantling Racism Project
“What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct‘” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Race in U.S. History: The Science of Race” by FacingHistory.org
“Orientalism” by Edward Said
Other Must Reads
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The face of racism today is not a slaveowner”: Eric Foner as interviewed by Elias Isquith
“Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America” by Lanre Bakare
“”A matter of death and death”: Confronting anti-black racism among Latinos” by Aura Bogado
“Environmental Justice: What the Candidates Missed in Flint” by Mike Ludwig
“I’m Losing Tons of Friends Fighting Racism. And I’m Totally Okay with That.” by Johnny Silvercloud
Resources on Police Brutality & Police/Prison Abolition
“Origins of the Police” by David Whitehouse
“Race and Criminalization; Black Americans and the Punishment Industry” by Angela Davis
“From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System” by Angela Davis
“Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion” edited by Joy James
“Prison, Where is Thy Victory” by Huey P. Newton
“Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality” by Mychal Denzel SmithTwitter
“We’re Trying to Destroy the World: Anti-Blackness & Police Violence After Ferguson” by Frank B. Wilderson, III
“Brown U. student leader: More African-American men in prison system now than were enslaved in 1850”
“Native Americans are the unseen victims of a broken US justice system” by Jake Flanagin
“Against Hired Guns” a response to Oakland Police Murders
“Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists”
“Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex” by Critical Resistance