Anti-Racism Resources

Anti-racist Resources For Parents with Young Children:

Watch Together

• CNN / Sesame Street: Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism (video)

• Sesame Street: We're Different, We're the Same  (Read-Aloud)

• All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel - Ms. Eaton (Read-Aloud)

• I Am Enough Read by Travis Written by Grace Byers (Read-Aloud)

• "Where's Rodney?" with author Carmen Bogan (Read-Aloud)

• I Am Brown by Ashok Banker Read by Miss Suzanne (Read-Aloud)

• Sankofa Read Aloud: Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Bernette Ford and Cheryl Hudson (Read Aloud)

• Trombone Shorty Read by: Angela Bassett Written by: Troy Andrews (Read-Aloud)

• The Hula Hoopin' Queen Read by Oprah Winfrey Written by: Thelma Godin (Read-Aloud)

Find More Children’s Books Here:

• Books Matter Children’s Book List

• Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books (article)

• Books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• 30+ Books to educate kids and teens about race

• 50 children’s books that celebrate diversity

• Browse Coretta Scott King Book Awards Winners

• 31 Children’s Books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance (various age levels)

• NYTimes: These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids 

• Captivating Kids Stories To Recognize Privilege (article)

• The Conscious Kid

How to Talk to Your Kids About Race/Racial Bias:

• The Atlantic: How to Talk to Your Kids About Race (video)

• NPR Parenting: Talking Race with Young Children (podcast)

• TEDx Talk Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk? | Beverly Daniel Tatum (video)

• Washington Post: Children’s books can help start a conversation about race. Parents have to continue it. (article)

• Safe Space Radio: Talking to White Kids About Race (podcast)

• 100 Race-Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice (article)

• Talking to Children About Racial Bias by Dr. Ashaunta Anderson & Jacqueline Douge (article)

• 10 Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids about Race (flyer)

• NYTimes: Talking to Kids About Racial Violence by Haig Chahinian (article)

• Washington Post: Talking to Small Children About Race by Anne Theriault (article)

• It’s Time for White Parents to Have “The Talk” with Their Children about Police Brutality by Marchae Grair (article)

• How to talk to kids about racism: An age-by-age guide (article)

• Talking with Children about Racism, Police Brutality and Protests (article)

• Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race (article)

• Teaching Tolerance: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (guide)