Anti-Racist Resources

Parent & Educator Resources

• How to talk to your children about protests and racism
• Raising Race Conscious Children
• Teach Your Child to Be An Advocate For Change
• 18 Children’s Books About Race & Racism That Can Spark Conversation
• Race & Ethnicity
• Be The Bridge
• Ontario Archives – Black History
• African Canadian Workers (1900-WWII)
• Classroom Connection – Black History
• Roads to Freedom (K-12)
• Black History in Canada Education Guide
• Black History Canada
• Celebrating Black History (CBC)

Books, Articles & Other Resources

• The Racial Bias Built into Photography (NY Times)
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• So You Want to Talk About Race
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
• Guide to Allyship 

Podcasts

• Talking Race With Young Children
• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• Seeing White
• Code Switch 
• While Black
• Bound for Justice
• The pod Caste System with Lovey
• The JourneyGurl Magic Podcast
• Black Girl Mentor
• The Space Between Us
• Melanated Conversations
• The Root of the Science Podcasts

Movies & Series

• 15 Kid-Friendly Movies to Help Build a Conversation about Race & Racism (Woman’s Day)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Malcom X (1992)
• The Glass Shield (1994)
• Fruitvale Station (2013)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Selma (2014)
• 13th (2016)
• I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
• Whose Streets? (2017)
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
• Dear White People (2017)
• The Hate U Give (2018)
• When They See Us (2019)

Videos / Story-Telling

• Systemic Racism Explained 
• Brittany Barron (TEDx) What Beyonce taught me about race
• Mena Fombo (TEDx) No.You cannot touch my hair!
• Black Lives Matter
• Baratunde Thurston (TEDx) How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time

Black Organizations and Anti-Racist Groups in Canada

• BLM – TO – All Black Lives Matter
• Black Legal Action Centre
• Black in BC Community Support Fund for COVID-19 organized by Jahmira Kedesha
• Nia Centre for the Arts: First Black Arts Centre in Toronto
• Hogan’s Alley Society 
• Black Space Winnipeg
• Black Health Alliance
• THE COME UP
• Black Youth Helpline
• Black Women in Motion
• Black Lives Matter

Donations and Petitions

• The Earth Issue Freedom Fundraiser 
• Photographers of Colour Petition 
• Places to Donate and ways to help