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Democracy, Voting, Census: A Conversation About Power

• Need help filling out your ballot? 
• Are you a young adult interested in running for office?
• Step to step guide of how to vote by mail
• Online Games

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay

• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010);
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010);
• James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017);
• Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2017).

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: White Fragility

• Call for Change at NA 
• “Students, alums at rally urge racial justice at N.J. private school” 
• “As Black alumni call for racial reforms, N.J. private schools apologize for students’ pain” 
• Black at NA Instagram
• Change.org Petition
• Live-streamed Video of Black Lives Matter x Newark Academy Speakers
• “How Students Are Using Social Media to Expose Racism”

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: John Lewis: Good Trouble

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: Educational Justice

• Amistad Legislation
• Reads: Wilkerson Caste
• Needs: Universal broadband
• artsedresearch.org
• Education Commission of the States
• Arts Ed NJ
• Arts Ed Newark
• National Endowment for the Arts

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: She Did That
Black Women In The Workplace

• In Her Shoes Blog
• Renaebluitt.com
• These Black Women Are Bringing Representation To The Podcast Space
• Sign up for Gifts From Dee
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace — Trends for 2021
• Therapy for Black Girls
• Newark unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers
• Hustle Pro
• How I Built This
• She Did That

Violence, Empowerment, and Allyship: The Asian Experience in America

• How You Can Join the Stop Asian Hate Movement Article
• Anti-AAPI Racism Resource List by Heidi Cho
• A toolkit to address anti-Asian bias and discimination
• Read this article on ways to support your Asian American colleague 
• Watch this video from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Pandemic Fuels Anti-Asian Racism
• NYU Silver’s Social Justice Praxis Community’s Instagram Handles to Follow
• GoFundMe’s Hub of Fundraisers that Support AAPI Community
• Recording of “Coping with Contextualizing Anti-Racism and Pandemics” and Office of Global Inclusion playlist of programs addressing systems of oppression
• A group of AAPI leaders created The Asian American Foundation, committed to educating the public and collecting data on anti-AAPI crime. Support the group by participating in events throughout AAPI heritage month

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: Black-Jewish Allyship Through Creative Expression

• Petit Rat

• 7 Ways to Practice Active Allyship/Harvard Business Review

• Monuments to the Unthinkable/The Atlantic

• Blacks and Jews, Again/NYT

• https://www.bet.com/bet-awards/episodes/1scb1l/content-for-change-black-x-jewish-content-for-change-black-x-jewish-ep-1

Democracy: A Users’ Guide

• New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: Chinese and Black Allyship in the South

• Far East Deep South Discussion Guide 

Democracy, Voting, Census: A Conversation About Power

• Need help filling out your ballot: https://youtu.be/Eo37gJSkY20
• Are you a young adult interested in running for office? runforsomething.net
• Step to step guide of how to vote by mail: www.newarkvotesbymail.org
• Online Games: https://www.icivics.org/games

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay

• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010);
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010);
• James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017);
• Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2017).

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: White Fragility

• Call for Change at NA 
• “Students, alums at rally urge racial justice at N.J. private school” 
• “As Black alumni call for racial reforms, N.J. private schools apologize for students’ pain” 
• Black at NA Instagram
• Change.org Petition
• Live-streamed Video of Black Lives Matter x Newark Academy Speakers
• “How Students Are Using Social Media to Expose Racism”

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: John Lewis: Good Trouble

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: Educational Justice

• Amistad Legislation
• Reads: Wilkerson Caste
• Needs: Universal broadband
• artsedresearch.org
• Education Commission of the States
• Arts Ed NJ
• Arts Ed Newark
• National Endowment for the Arts

PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: She Did That
Black Women In The Workplace

• In Her Shoes Blog
• Renaebluitt.com
• These Black Women Are Bringing Representation To The Podcast Space
• Sign up for Gifts From Dee
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace — Trends for 2021
• Therapy for Black Girls
• Newark unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers
• Hustle Pro
• How I Built This
• She Did That

Violence, Empowerment, and Allyship: The Asian Experience in America

• How You Can Join the Stop Asian Hate Movement Article
• Anti-AAPI Racism Resource List by Heidi Cho
• A toolkit to address anti-Asian bias and discimination
• Read this article on ways to support your Asian American colleague 
• Watch this video from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Pandemic Fuels Anti-Asian Racism
• NYU Silver’s Social Justice Praxis Community’s Instagram Handles to Follow
• GoFundMe’s Hub of Fundraisers that Support AAPI Community
• Recording of “Coping with Contextualizing Anti-Racism and Pandemics” and Office of Global Inclusion playlist of programs addressing systems of oppression
• A group of AAPI leaders created The Asian American Foundation, committed to educating the public and collecting data on anti-AAPI crime. Support the group by participating in events throughout AAPI heritage month

Online Resources:

• APAP Anti-Racism Resources
• An Anti-Racism Toolkit for Moderate White People
• All Arts Asian American Resources
• Association of Performing Arts Professionals Anti-Racism Resources
• Blog from the American Friends Service Committee on responding to anti-Asian racism 
• Hollaback! Bystander Intervention Training
• Stop AAPI HATE resource guide by Playbill 

Articles:

• A Sense of Safety: Makoto Hirano on Assimilation, Fear, and Gun Reform
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• Black and Asian Feminist Solidarity Letter
• Calling COVID-19 the “Wuhan Virus” or “China Virus” is inaccurate and xenophobic by Marietta Vazquez
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• CNN’s Omar Jimenez Could Have Been Me — Or Any of My Black Colleagues, by Jada Gomez
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• How to Be a Good American, by Stephanie Georgopulos
• How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change, by Barack Obama
• How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism, by Tikia K. Hamilton, PhD
• It’s Time for Philanthropy to Address Its Erasure of AAPI Voices and Perspectives by Grace Nicolette
• Japanese-American Internment Camps
• Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is… A Lot, by Shenequa Golding
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• My Dad Warned Me About the Myth of Racial Progress — He Was Right, by Drew Costley
• Office Allies Can’t Undo Yet Another Black Murder, by The Only Black Guy In the Office
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | by Nikole Hannah-Jones | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• This Thanksgiving remember that Indigenous people still live in New Jersey | By Vashti Harris For Mosaic
• There’s No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest, by Tirhakah Love
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• We Won’t Let This Moment Be a Trend, by Vanessa K. De Luca
• What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots, by Erik Parker
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• Working for Equity and Social Justice? Know What Your Asian Colleague Is Experiencing
• 10 Ways to Do Racial Justice Advocacy After You Say “Black Lives Matter” by New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
• 400 Years Now by New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

Books:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Meet Three Gen-Z Activists Who Are Fighting for Environmental Justice
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
  by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

• A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
• Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know by Gary R. Howard, edited by James A. Banks
• Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• White Lies Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear by Tim Wise

Online Resources:

• the Outsiders Guide to New York City high schools
• Free civic education classes

Books:

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• 20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good
• 13 Children’s Books About Race and Diversity

Podcasts:

• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
• Fare of the Free Child podcast
• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”

Articles:

• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

Black stories:

• Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry
• Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyongo

• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
• Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
• I am Enough by Grace Byers
• Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel

Activism:

• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All

LGBTQIA+/Gender:

• Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
• Pickles and Ocho by Dan Wellik
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
• Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee

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