People have been asking for resources understanding racism.  Below are just some of the resources you may wish to explore.  There are many other lists and resources available as well.

Movies:

• 12 Years a Slave
• 13th
• Harriet
• The Hate U Give
• Just Mercy
• The New Jim Crow
• Selma

Non-Fiction Books

• The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• I am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Were Eight Years in Power, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
• Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US, Lenny Duncan
• The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman.
• How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen
• Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
• So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• Let Justice Roll Down, John Perkins
• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
• Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Native America from 1890 to the Present, David Treuer.
• Race Matters, Cornel West
• A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Children’s books

• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice, Marianne Celano, Harietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard; Illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist, Cynthia Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman

Young Adult Books

• This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work, Tiffany Jewell and Aurélia Durand
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

On Minnesota

• A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, Edited by Sun Yung Shin
• The Hiawatha, David Treuer
• The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, Kao Kalia Yang
• Mapping Prejudice, on racial housing covenants and segregation in the Twin Cities,
• Redlining in the Twin Cities in 1934: 1960s and Today, Institute of Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota Law School,
• Rondo Neighborhood & I-94: Overview, Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library,
• Matt Reicher, “The Birth of a Metro Highway (Interstate-94),” Streets.mn, 10 Sept 2013,

Recent Articles

• Michelle Alexander, “America, This Is Your Chance,” The New York Times, 8 June 2020,
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “How Do We Change America?” The New Yorker, 8 June 2020