Equity Resources for Families

A Great Place to Start

• Understanding Equity and Inequity from Equity Literacy Institute.
• Arlington Public Schools Office of Equity and Excellence
• National Museum of African American History & Culture – Talking about Race
• NPR: Talking Race with Young Children A video for families on how to handle conversations about race, racism, diversity and inclusion, even with very young children.
• Pretty Good Design: Are your kids too young to talk about race? Nope.

Books for Kids

• Today’s Parent: 27 books to help you talk to your kids about racism
• A Kids Book About Racism – Jelani Memory
• Let the Children March – Monica Clark-Robinson
• We’re Different, We’re the Same (Sesame Street)
• Let’s Talk About Race – Julius Lester
• https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/new/

More book suggestions from: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/06/02/books-to-learn-more-anti-racism-adults-kids/5306873002/

• “The Colors of Us” by Karen Katz
• “Let’s Talk About Race” by Julius Lester
• “The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism” by Pat Thomas
• Sesame Street’s “We’re Different, We’re the Same” by Bobbi Jane Kates
• “Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice” by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
• “I Am Enough” by Grace Byers
• “Happy in Our Skin” by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia
• “Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement” by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
• “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” by Jennifer Harvey
• “Daddy Why Am I Brown?: A healthy conversation about skin color and family” by Bedford F. Palmer
• “A Terrible Thing Happened” by Margaret Holmes
• “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi

Videos for Kids

• YouTube – Animation Series: Something Happened In Our Town – Read Aloud
• YouTube – Systemic Racism Explained
• YouTube – A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory – Read Aloud
• YouTube – The Tutu Teacher – Let’s Talk About Race – Read Aloud

More video suggestions from: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/08/26/kids-tv-shows-teach-anti-racism-celebrate-diversity/5606178002/

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