There is a wealth of resources available to become more informed about racism in the United States and its effects. Beveridge & Diamond's Diversity & Inclusion Committee encourages everyone to educate themselves and engage others by reading, listening, and watching the selection of media it has assembled below.
B&D maintains a robust internal library of additional resources, including more media recommendations and a list of organizations to support. Please contact Roy Prather for more information.
Articles
- Toward a Racially Just Workplace – Harvard Business Review
- Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists: How to Be an Antiracist – New York Times (Dr. Ibram X. Kendi)
- The 1619 Project – New York Times Magazine
- The Intersectionality Wars – Vox
Documentaries, Films, and TV Shows
- 13th – Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay
- Color Blind or Color Brave – Ted Talk by Mellody Hobson
- Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable – Ted Talk by Luvvie Ajayi
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary) – available to rent or on Kanopy
- Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities – PBS documentary by Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams
Podcasts
Books
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
