Community Resources

Anti-Racism · Pro-Inclusivity

YEAH! is a direct attempt to amplify youth voices that have otherwise been told to be silent. Music, art, and creative expression are our tools in building a loud, celebratory, and formidable movement. We do not use these tools by accident; we use them because music and creative expression are accessible, community-based, collaborative, and political.

Our feminist roots have grown to encapsulate discussion and work to liberate all oppressed peoples, beginning with antiracism. YEAH! Remains committed to actively naming and addressing the deep well of violence that disproportionately affects communities of color, in addition to acknowledging the history of the land we occupy. We recognize that every day provides us with the opportunity to work on dismantling our own white supremacy values so that we can better prepare ourselves to serve our youth.

This work will open opportunities to support additional underrepresented communities we value, including Hispanic, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, and multiple music professions. Resource pages for these vital communities are currently being developed and will be available soon.

As we adapt and shift, we invite you to join our commitment to continually remake ourselves and boldly engage in courageous opportunities to learn how to challenge systemic oppression and love each other better.

The resources below are tools to educate ourselves, encourage conversations and engage into action. These resources are periodically updated and most effective with community participation. If you would like to contribute a resource to our page, please send it to director@yeahrocks.org

Books

• 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• Are Prisons Obsolete?/Angela Davis/2003

• Between the World and Me/Ta-Nehisi Coates/2015

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins/2000

• Black Marxism: The Making of Black Radical Tradition/Cedric Robinson/1983

• Black Skin, White Masks/Frantz Fanon/1952

• Common Ground/J. Anthony Lukas/1985

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper/2018

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon/2018

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi/2019

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Maya Angelou/1969

• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson/2014

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad/2020

• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold/2020

• Racism 101 booklist by Nicole Zhou

• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More/Janet Mock/2014

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde/1984

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo8/2018

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison/1970

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin/1962

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness/Michelle Alexander/2010

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century/Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, and Danny Glover/2011

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson/2010

• The World That Made New Orleans/Ned Sublette/2008

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua/1984

• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race/Debby Irving/2014

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

• White Fragility/Robin J. Diangelo/June 26, 2018

• White Rage/Carol Anderson/2017

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race/Beverley Daniel Tatum/2017

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race/Renni Eddo-Lodge/2017

• Women, Race, and Class/Angela Davis/1981

• Wretched of the Earth/Frantz Fanon/1961

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to To Talk About Race: Resource Roundup/Katrina Michie

Articles

• 11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In The Wake Of Police Brutality by Brittany Wong (HuffPost)

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice/Corinne Shutack/Aug. 13, 2017

• A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising/Michael Harriot/May 30, 2020

• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• Amy Cooper, White Spaces and the Political Projection of Whiteness/Lara Witt/May 26, 2020/

• Breaking Barriers: Strategies for Inclusivity in Sports/Alexis Bennett/October 18, 2023

• Discourse and Debate: Is performative activism inherently bad?/Kayla Abrams, Jemima Fregene, and Lana Awadallah/Mar. 26, 2019

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• Food Has Always Been Political/Adam Rapaport/May 31, 2020

• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies/Courney Ariel/Aug. 16, 2017

• How Not To Be An Ally/Dr. Kim Case/April 19, 2019

• How To Be An Ally If You Are a Person With Privilege/Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D./2003

• How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change/Barack Obama/Jun. 1, 2020

• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR

• How White Women’s Tears Threaten Black Existence/Cameron Glover/May 15, 2018

• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• My White Friend Asked Me to Explain White Privilege/Lori Lakin Hutcherson/Sep. 8, 2017

• Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge/Kareem Abdul Jabbar/May 30, 2020

• Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks/Lovey Cooper/Jun. 1, 2020

• Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us/Roxane Gay/May 30, 2020

• Several Antiracist Books Are Selling Out. Here’s What Else Black Booksellers and Publishers Say You Should Read by Suyin Haynes (Time)

• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month/Nefertiti Austin/Feb. 15 2018

• The 1619 Project (all articles)/New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying/Adam Serwer/May 8, 2020

• The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

• The Minneapolis Uprising in Context/Elizabeth Hinton/May 29, 2020

• The Souls of White Folk/Stephen Jamal Leeper/ Dec. 22, 2016

• The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility/Anna Kegler/Jul. 22, 2016

• The White Space/Elijah Anderson/2015

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups/Craig Elliott PhD/2016

• Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: ‘Some Very Fine People on Both Sides’/Rosie Gray/Aug 15, 2017

• We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.”/Meg K. Guilford/May 31, 2020

• What Do We Do With White Folks?/Anthony James Williams/Feb. 4, 2019

• When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels/Rachel Cargle/Aug. 16, 2018

• Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

• White Anti-Racism: Living The Legacy/Flinn, Norman, Patel and Robles

• White Fragility/The Conscious Kid

• White People Have No Culture/Lorena Wallace/Feb. 19, 2018

• White People: This Is How To Check Your Privilege When Asking People Of Color For Their Labor/Sophia Stephens/July 30, 2018

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• White Supremacy Culture, From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change/Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun/2001

• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race/Sam Adler-Bell/Mar 10, 2015

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

Movies and Documentaries

• 13th/Ava Duvernay/2016 – Netflix

• American Son/Kenny Leon/2019 – Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975/Göran Olsson/2011

• Blackkklansman/Spike Lee/2018

• Clemency/Chinonye Chukwu/2019

• Fruitvale Station/Ryan Coogler/2013

• Get Out/Jordan Peele/2017

• I Am Not Your Negro/Raoul Peck/2017

• If Beale Street Could Talk/Barry Jenkins/2018 – Hulu

• Just Mercy/Destin Daniel Cretton/2019

• King In The Wilderness/Peter Kunhardt/2018 – HBO

• See You Yesterday/Stefon Bristol/2019 – Netflix

• Selma/Ava Duvernay/2014

• Sorry To Bother You/Boots Riley/2018 – Hulu

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution/Stanley Nelson Jr./2015

• The Hate U Give/George Tillman Jr./2018 – Hulu

• When They See Us/Ava Duvernay/2019

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Fare of the Free Child podcast

• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Nice White Parents (Serial and The New York Times)

• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

• Seeing White

Videos

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”: Peggy Mcintosh at TedxTimberlaneSchools/Tedx Talks/Nov. 5, 2012

• A Mindful Approach to Race and Social Justice | Rhonda Magee, Jon Kabot-Zinn, Anderson Cooper/Wisdom 2.0/May 28, 2019

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Caruthers/National LGBTQ Task Force/Jan. 23 2016

• Brené Brown on Empathy/The RSA/ Dec. 10 2013

• Courageous Conversations: Sharing Stories About Race and Pledging to Practice More/WHYY/May 23, 2017

• Dr. Robin Diangelo discusses ‘White Fragility’/Seattle Channel/Jul. 3 2018

• George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show/The Daily Show with Trevor Noah/May 29, 2020

• The Difference Between Being “Not Racist” and “Antiracist”: A TED Talk by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Inner Work of Racial Justice | Rhonda Magee/Wisdom 2.0/Mar. 23 2019

• Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story/Robin Diangelo | Big Think/Oct. 1 2018

More Anti-Racism Resources

• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

• 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources by Katie Couric (Medium)

• A Historical Guide to Racial Discrimination in Housing

• Adrienne Maree Brown’s Blog

• Allied Media Projects

• America’s Long History of Scapegoating Its Asian Citizens (National Geographic)

• Anguish & Action (Obama Foundation)

• Anti-Racism Project

• Anti-racism Resources(Google Doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein)

• Asian Americans Are Calling on Allies in Response to a Wave of Violence(VICE)

• Black LGBTQ Individuals Experience Heightened Levels of Discrimination

• Black Men Matter – Examining Mental Health Issues Among Black Men – A Guide To Freedom

• Black Mental Health Matters

• Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others

• Educational Resources on Prison and Police Abolition

• How to Survive the End of the World: A Podcast with the Brown Sisters

• IG: 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship (@mireillecharper)

• Not Equal: Racial Disparities In Addiction/Substance Abuse Treatment

• Recognizing White Supremacy: A resource to identify characteristics of white supremacy culture that show up in our individual identities, our institutions, and our communities.

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

• Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention for BIPOC

• Solutions (Campaign Zero)

• Songtrust: Social Change Resources

• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)

• The [White] Shift on Instagram

• The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases

• The Summit Wellness Group’s Top 61 BIPOC Addiction & Mental Health Resources

• Twenty/Twenty: A Resource Guide on Black Liberation

• Ways You Can Stand in Solidarity with the Black Community (AdHoc)

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

Organizations to Follow on Social Media

• Antiracism Center

• Audre Lorde Project

• Black Women’s Blueprint

• Color Of Change

• Colorlines

• The Conscious Kid

• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

• Families Belong Together

• Justice League NYC

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

• The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL)

• MPowerChange

• Muslim Girl

• NAACP

• National Domestic Workers Alliance

• RAICES

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

• SisterSong

• Trans Lifeline

• United We Dream

For Teachers & Mentors

A Guide for Teachers Who Want to Discuss Race but Don’t Know Where to Start
Financial Literacy in the Black Community
Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide
How to Use Your Social Work Degree to Help Decriminalize Mental Illness
Liberating education: how schools can empower and transform | Trish Millines Dziko | TEDxSeattle
Programming for Social Justice with Campers
Social Justice Series: Recognizing Microaggressions at Camp
Student Activism in Schools: Getting Your Voice Heard
Teaching Social Justice Resource Exchange Facebook Group

Organizations to Support

We support the following organizations and appreciate your contributions to their efforts.

AFRORACK
Black Lives Matter
Black Visions
Color of Change
Gideon’s Army
Nashville Community Bail Fund
National Museum of African American Music
Reclaim the Block
The Equity Alliance
Trans Lifeline
Youth Activism Project

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