Building anti-racist education institutions requires a commitment to ongoing individual learning and action, and there are countless authors, scholars, and activists leading and guiding conversations about racism and racial justice through their work. Here is a curated list of the resources we are learning from right now for you to read, listen to, follow, and share with your colleagues.


Articles—Your Quick Reads with a Lasting Impact
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- What Role Should Higher Education Play in Combating Racism?
- Why Diversity Initiatives Fail
- Anti-Racism in Higher Education: A Model for Change
- Anti-Blackness and the Way Forward for K-12 Schooling
Books—For Your Individual and Book Club Reading Lists
- “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” by Craig Steven Wilder
- “From Equity Talk to Equity Walk” Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice” by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Mara Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
- “How to be an Anti-Racist,” by Ibram X. Kendi
- “Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data,” by Julie J. Park
- “White Fragility,” by Robin DiAngelo
Podcasts—For Your Walks, Workouts, and Lunchbreaks
- Nice White Parents (Serial and the New York Times)
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Seeing White (Scene on Radio, Center for Documentary Studies)
- 1619 (The New York Times)
Thought Leaders—For Your Continued Learning
- Anthony A. Jack (Bio, Twitter)
- Estela Mara Bensimon (Bio, Twitter)
- Ibram Kendi (Bio, Twitter)
- Shaun Harper (Bio, Twitter)
- Tressie McMillan Cottom (Bio, Twitter)