This is an evolving list of resources we’ve found to be helpful.
Websites
Learning for Justice
Raising Race Conscious Children
Kids Guide to Gender
Embracerace
Britt Hawthorne
Books for Grownups
Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide by Britt Hawthorne
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Rethinking Early Childhood Education edited by Ann Pelo
Picture Books for Children
Connection
Be a Bridge by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
You Are Friendly series by Todd Snow
Together We Grow by Susan Vaught and Kelly Murphy
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Bodies
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
Identity
Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedvee
From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thorn
Neither by Airlie Anderson
Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
Uniqueness
We Are All Alike, We Are All Different by Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergarteners
Children Just Like Me: A Celebration of Children Around the World published by DK Children
Musicians
Sing, Aretha, Sing! by Hanif Abdurraqib
Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell by Selina Also
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renée Watson
King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza
Immigration
Migrants by Issa Watanabe
Hear My Voice compiled by Warren Binford
Poetry Books for Children
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Lathen and Charles Waters
Media
Podcasts
Emergent Strategy Podcast
How to Raise Race Conscious Children
On Being Podcast interview with adrienne maree brown
Raising Anti-Racist, Anti-Bias Kids with Britt Hawthorne
Articles
Creating A Society Rooted in Justice by Britt Hawthorne
Children Are Not Color Blind: How Young Children Learn Race by Erin N. Winkler
Standards
social justice standards from Learning for Justice
Juneteenth
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Britt Hawthorne
Embrace Race
PBS
Ibram X Kendi on Juneteenth