Books
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Color of Law: Insight into how modern day segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.
- Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
- Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work
- Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
- Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book, by W. Kamau Bell (Author), Kate Schatz (Author)
Articles Geared towards those in Science and Medicine
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts (see Ted Talk)
- Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
- The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry by Rafael Campo
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Finding Diverse Talent: Myths
- The Science of Diversity and the Impact of Implicit Bias
- NIH Workforce Toolkit
- Working in Science Was a Brutal Education. That’s Why I left by Brandon Taylor
- The Physician’s Role in Racial Equity by Jonas Attilus, M.D., M.P.H.
- The Role of the Scarecrow in Surgery by David S. Shapiro
- Brief online modules on racial justice in academic medicine by Equal Treatment
Additional Articles and Websites
- 8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy
- Learning the ways of the force: Advice to minority students in STEM fields
- 7 Examples of What Being an Ally at Work Really Looks Like adapted from “Better Allies”
- Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
- Anti-racism resources for white people: 2020 resource list by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
- Why Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing by Zeba Blay
- The 1619 Project in The New York Times
- 3 White Privilege Blind Spots in Boston That Are Keeping Us Racist by siblings Julie Devaney Hogan and Erik Devaney
Videos
- Don’t Be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks
- Understanding the Fundamentals of Allyship with Luca Maurer (Cornell University)
- Allyship in the Scientific Enterprise: Performance or Progress?
Video and Documentary Suggestions
- 13th (available on Netflix)
- Just Mercy (available on Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube)
- When They See Us (available on Netflix)
- The Hate U Give (available on YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu)
- Do The Right Thing (available on YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes)
- I Am Not Your Negro (available on YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes)
- Something the Lord Made (available on Hulu)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (available on HBO, Amazon Prime Video)