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Anti-Racism Resources

This ever-growing list provides educational materials and recommendations that will help you learn and unlearn matters of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.

 Websites
 Videos
 Podcasts
 Articles
 Books
 Films and TV series'
  • 13th (Ava DuVernay) - Netflix 
  • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
  • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
  • King In The Wilderness  — HBO
  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
  • Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  • Rhymes for Young Ghouls – CBC Gem
  • Future History – CBC Gem
  • Kayak to Klemtu – Crave
  • Indian Horse – Crave
  • Our People will be Healed – Amazon Prime
  • Stolen – Amazon Prime
  • Falls Around Her – Crave
  • Spirit to Soar – CBC Gem
  • Mohawk Girls – CBC Gem
  • National Film Board Collection: Black Communities in Canada
  • National Film Board Collection: Indigenous Cinema 
  • Kanehsatake270 Years of Resistance
 More films on Diversity & Social Justice

Immigration, Assimilation, and Acculturation  

  • El Norte  
  • Rabbit Proof Fence 
  • Lost Boys of Sudan  
  • Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants  
  • Farmingville  
  • The Gatekeeper  
  • Split Decision  
  • Banana Split 
  • Real Women Have Curves  
  • A Better Life 
  • Kite Runner 
  • The Visitor 
  • Smoke Signals 

Issues of Race and Ethnicity 

  • 4 Little Girls  
  • Do the Right Thing   
  • Mi Familia  
  • Smoke Signals  
  • Beloved In America  
  • Joy Luck Club  
  • Rosewood  
  • The Help  
  • American History X  
  • White Identity Theory: Origins and Prospect  
  • Real Women Have Curves  

 Institutionalized Prejudice 

  • Amazing Grace  
  • To Kill a Mockingbird  
  • Sounder Lone Star  
  • Amistad  
  • Skin 
  • Come See the Paradise  
  • Das Experiment  
  • The Help  
  • Held in Trust: The Story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper  
  • Violence: An American Tradition 
  • Black Like Me  
  • The House We Live In 

 Issues of Social Justice 

  • Bowling for Columbine  
  • Dead Man Walking  
  • Fahrenheit 9/11  
  • The Control Room  
  • In Whose Honor?  
  • The Jaundiced Eye  
  • Supporting Youth: Their Education and Survival  
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin?  
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 
  • City of God 
  • Undefeated  
 Organizations to follow on social media
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