Recommended Resources
The more we know, the more we can engage in meaningful dialogue about how to make change happen. To build an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous America, we need to demand change — not only from our government, but from ourselves and those around us. We’ve collected these resources from various sources and want to share with you.
Please email info@tomsteyer.com if you have additional resources to recommend — we’d love to hear from you!
Books:
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
- Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
- Storming the Wall by Todd Miller
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
- Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Articles:
- On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System by Akilah Johnson
- In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
- The Police Don’t Change by Joel Anderson
- Black people are at the center of two public health crises in the US: Covid-19 and police brutality by Annalisa Merelli
- Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide by Matthew Dessem
- 1968-2020: A Tale Of Two Uprisings by Karen Grigsby Bates
- Now Streaming: 100 Years of Black Defiance at the Movies by K. Austin Collins
- I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- The Great Climate Migration by Abrahm Lustgarten
- The New Abolitionism by Chris Hayes
- Read Up on the Links Between Racism and the Environment by Somini Sengupta
- Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison-Industrial Complex by Angela Davis
- Waiting for a Perfect Protest? by Michael Mcbride, Traci Blackmon, Frank Reid, and Barbara Williams Skinner
- When you walk into the valley by John Metta
- Reparations are Past Due by Jeremiah Chapman
Documentaries:
- I Am Not Your Negro — the work of American writer and activist James Baldwin
- 13th — inequality in the criminal justice system
- Whose Streets? — Ferguson in the wake of the Michael Brown Shooting
- Teach Us All — how school segregation is still pervasive in the modern day