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Black History
Books
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
North of Slavery by Leon Litwack
Reconstruction by Eric Foner
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A Blackmon
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson
The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
Cold War Civil Rights by Mary L. Dudziak
Too Heavy a Load by Deborah Gray White
When and Where I Enter by Paula J. Gidding
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Documentaries/Movies
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Freedom Riders
Slavery by Another Name
Eyes on the Prize
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Soundtrack for a Revolution
Dark Girls
The Black List
13th
Tell Them We Are Rising
I Am Not Your Negro
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
LA 92
King In The Wilderness
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
America to Me
When They See Us
Ethnic Notions
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Teach Us All
Policing
Books
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Online Resources
Broken Windows Policing Doesn't Work
The Criminogenic and Psychological Effects of Police Stops on Adolescent Black & Latino Boys
The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
Examining the Role of Use-of-Force Policies in Ending Police Violence
A Hidden Factor in Police Shootings of Black Americans: Decades of Housing Segregation
Loose Cigarettes Today, Civil Unrest Tomorrow
Coard: No Such Thing as Black-on-Black Crime
NPR's History Podcast "Throughline" Explores Policing in America
Stanford's Open Policing Project
Report to the UN on Racial Disparities in the US Criminal Justice System
Study Finds Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Black Men at Disproportionate Rates
Bias
Books
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think & Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Online Resources
Anti-Racism
Books
How to Be an Antiracist. by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
SROs
Online Resources
Disparities in school discipline
Govt. Accountability Office
The Case Against Police In Schools
ACLU Report
ED Letter on SROs in Schools
Improving School Climate
SRO History
Fremont SRO Task Force Report
BIPoC History
Books
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
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Black-Asian Solidarity
Online Resources
Black & Asian Solidarity in American History
Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project
On Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: Who is Our Real Enemy?
Reviving the History of Radical Black-Asian Internationalism
Asian-American Anti-Blackness is Real and So Is Our Responsibility to End It.
Ignoring the History of Anti-Asian Racism is Another Form of Violence
Nail Salon Brawls & Boycotts: Unpacking the Black-Asian Conflict in America
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Books
Afro Asia Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans by Fred Ho & Bill Mullen
Black Memoirs
Books
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X