Healthcare Equity and Anti-Racism Resources

The UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity has created a resource list of anti-racist materials for community members looking to heal, educate themselves and take action. This list includes resources for Black mental health and well-being created by and for Black people, along with articles on solidarity and healing. You will also find materials on historical and present-day racism in the United States, including racial inequity in the healthcare system. Please use these resources to help deepen anti-racist action and conversation.

Learn more about what UW Medicine is doing to reduce disparities in healthcare delivery and access further resources on the UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity’s website.

Healthcare Equity Resources

Read

Basics

• Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We Think, See and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (white author)
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming
• Wondering what the term “white supremacy” means and how it relates to your life? This illustration does a great job at listing dozens of overt and covert actions that reinforce white supremacy, often unintentionally.

Racism and medicine

• Fatal Invention: How Science Politics, Big Business, Recreate Race in the 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts
• The Problem with Race-Based Medicine by Dorothy Roberts. TEDMED 2015
• Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in the American Health Care System by Dayna Bowen Matthew
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (white author)
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present by Harriett A. Washington
• How Racism Makes Us Sick by David R. Williams. TEDMED 2016
• Flatlining: Race, Work and Healthcare in the New Economy by Adia Harvey Wingfield

Addressing race in mentorship

• Cognitive Reserve and Racial Privilege in STEM by Mélise Edwards
• Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Students by Amanda Cornwall
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not by Danielle Cadet
• The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn PhDs by Adam Harris
• A Twitter thread for PIs on supporting Black students, From a Black PhD student @FutureDrDukes (Angeline Dukes)

Defining racism and anti-racism

• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

Additional reading

• The Lemonade Syllabus by Candice Benbow
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (white author)
• What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Biased: Unconvering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
• How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide by Crystal M. Flemming
• A Short History Of Reconstruction 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (white author)
• Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Erica Lee
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems In Race, Political Economy and Society by Manning Marable
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
• The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott (white author)
• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
• How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
• The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit by Thomas Surgue (white author)
• A Different Mirror: A History Of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn (white author)
• An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (white author)

Memoirs

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• The Best We Could: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
• Between The World And Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
• Eloquent Rage – A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
• Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
• Lakota Women by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
• Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversation (Graphic Novel) by Mira Jacob
• When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• Paper Sons by Dickson Lam
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• Citizen 13660 (Graphic Novel) by Miné Okubo
• I Love Yous Are For White People: A Memoir by Lac Su
• The Auto-Biography Of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Essays

• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Black is the Body – Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard
• We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
• If They Come In The Morning…Voices Of The Resistance edited by Angela Davis
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
• When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
• Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward
• Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves by Deborah G. White

Fiction

• Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Americanah by Chimamande Ngozi Adichie
• The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye (white author)
• A Negro And And An Ofay: The Tales of Elliot Caprice by Danny Gardner
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Welcome To Braggsville: A Novel by T. Geronimo Johnson
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
• The Year Of The Dog by Grace Lin
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Black studies

• The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (white author)
• The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
• A Black Women’s History Of The United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
• The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness And Political Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
• March Trilogy (Graphic Novels) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
• North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869 by Leon F. Litwack (white author)
• Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century by Monique M. Morris
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris
• 40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
• From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• African American History: From Emancipation to the Present. Yale University AFAM 162, Free Online Course 

Land and housing

• Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City by Matthew Desmond (white author)
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History on How Our Government Segregated American by Richard Rothstein (white author)

Teaching

• Justice In June Syllabus 
• For All You White Folks Who Teach In The Hood…And The Rest Of Ya’ll Too by Christopher Emdin
• Not Light, But Fire: How To Lead Meaningful Race Conversations In The Classroom by Matthew R. Kay
• Culturally Responsive School Leadership by Muhammad Khalifa
• We Want To Do More Than Just Survive: Abolitionist Teaching And The Pursuit Of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
• Start Where You Are But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classroom by H. Richard Milner IV
• Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad
• White Teachers Need Anti-racist Therapy by Bettina L. Love
• Everyday AntiRacism: Getting Real About Race In Schools by Mica Pollock (white author)
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria and Other Conversations On Race by Beverley Daniel Tatum, PhD

Voting

• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
• Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

Mass incarceration

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (white author)
• Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
• A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris Hill
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Kai Hinton
• Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Just Mercy (movie) directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
• Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement My Story of Transformation and Hope by Albert Woodfox
• 13th (movie), An American Documentary Directed by Ava Duvernay
• When They See Us (Mini-Series), Netflix Original Co-Written and Directed by Ava Duvernay
• Ear Hustle (Podcast)

White studies

• The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen (white author)
• The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen (white author)
• White Rage by Carol Anderson
• What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo (white author)
• We Talk Different Episode #63-The ‘What Does It Mean To Be White’ Edition with Robin Di’Angelo (Podcast)
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
• Waking Up White by Deby Irving
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son by Tim Wise (white author)

Healing and restoration

• The Little Book on Race and Restorative Justice by Fania E. Davis
• The Innerwork of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Broken Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systematic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Annealiese A Singh, PhD, LPC

Race and the church

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy Of The Doctrine Of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
• Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion And The Problem Of Race In America by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith (white author)
• Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating For Justice That Restores by Dominique Du Bois Gilliard
• The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
• White Awake: An Honest Look At What It Means To Be White by Daniel Hill (white author)
• Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing The Way The Church View Racism by Drew Hart
• An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation by Nyasha Junior
• Recovering From Racism: City Ministry In “Post-Racial” America by Larry Lloyd (white author)
• Woke Church: An Urgent Call For Christians In America To Confront Racism And Injustice by Eric Mason
• Road Map To Reconciliation: Moving Communities Into Unity, Wholeness and Justice by Brenda Salter McNeil
• Introducing Womanist Theology by Stephanie V. Mitchem
• The Long Repentance (Bible study) by Mako Nagasawa
• Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins
• Prophetic Lament: A Call For Justice In Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah
• Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey by Sarah Shin
• Urbana 1970: Racism & World Evangelism (sermon) speech by Tom Skinner
• Jesus And The Disinherited by Howard Thurman
• The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
• Footnotes with Jemar Tisby (podcast)
• Reconstructing The Gospel: Finding Freedom From The Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (white author)
• Centering: The Asian American Christian Podcast (podcast)
• Truth’s Table (podcast)

Articles

• On Being An Ally: Change is Necessary and Painful by Genie Harrison and Amanda Monroe
• Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us by Roxanne Gay
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corrine Shutack
• Why We Need To Call Out Casual Racism by Luvvie Ajayi
• Black People Need Stronger White Allies: Here’s How to Be One by Stephanie Long
• On Being Comfortable with Discomfort: Tiffany Jewell Explains What It Means to be Anti-Racist by Vanessa Willoughby
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-nehisi Coates
• Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge.
• Lynching In America (Interactive Resource) by Equal Justice Initiative
• Are All White Americans Police Officers? by Andre Henry
• White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• America,The House That Slavery Built by Tasha Williams
• Blacks And Jews Entangled by Edward S. Shapiro (white author)
• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists)
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott, PhD
• How to Stop the Racist in You by Jeremy Adam Smith and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
• Racism in the Structure of Everyday Worlds: A Cultural Psychological Perspective by Phia S. Salter, Glenn Adams and Michael J. Perez

Listen/watch

Podcasts

• At Liberty by the ACLU
• The Chicken and Jollof Rice show
• The Nod
• GirlsLikeMe
• Identity Politics
• Uncivil
• 1619 by New York Times
• The Praxis Podcast hosted by Edwin Lindo
• About Race with Renni Eddo-Lodge
• Code Switch by NPR
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause by The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
• Pod Save the People by Crooked Media
• Seeing White
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• Revisionist History

Movies, documentaries, TV series, TED talks

• Slavery by Another Name (PBS Documentary)
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers 
• 13th by Ava DuVernay (Netflix )
• American Son by Kenny Leon (Netflix)
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (available to rent)
• Blindspotting by Carlos López Estrada (Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent)
• Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu (available to rent)
• Dear White People by Justin Simien (Netflix)
• Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler (available to rent)
• How to Overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them by Verna Myers TED Beacon Street.
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion by Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• I Am Not Your Negro (available to rent or on Kanopy)
• If Beale Street Could Talk by Barry Jenkins (Hulu)
• Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton (available to rent for free in June in the U.S.)
• King In The Wilderness (HBO)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses her book White Fragility (Seattle Channel)
• See You Yesterday by Stefon Bristol (Netflix)
• Selma by Ava DuVernay (available to rent)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (available to rent)
• The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberly Crenshaw TED Women 2016
• The Hate U Give by George Tillman Jr. (Hulu with Cinemax)
• Where Heritage = Hate: The Truth about the Confederacy in America
• When They See Us by Ava DuVernay (Netflix)

Amplifying Black voices

• An article with steps to amplify Black voices
• Black voices to add to your social media

Organizations to follow on social media

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Black media to support

• Blavity: An American media outlet created by and for Black millennials. Its mission is to “economically and creatively support Black millennials across the African diaspora, so they can pursue the work they love, and change the world in the process.”
• The Root: An African-American-oriented online magazine that provides an unflinching analysis of important issues in the Black community through insightful and savvy commentary from Black thought-leaders.
• BET: The nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African American audience
• NBCBLK: An NBC platform highlighting “stories by, for and about the Black community” with the goal of “elevating America’s conversation about Black identity, politics & culture today.”
• TheGrio: An American news website focusing on news and events that have a unique interest and/or pronounced impact within the national African American audience.
• Ebony: A magazine committed to showcasing the best and brightest, as well as highlighting disparities in Black life.
• Essence: A lifestyle, fashion and beauty magazine for African American women.
• Refinery 29 – Unbothered: An online platform made for and by Black millennial women, celebrating the beauty, strength, and power in the Black community.

Parenting

• These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids by Jessica Grose
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• 20 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• 100 Race-Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice
• Online training for raising Anti-Racist Children
• Kids and Race
• The First R: How Children Learn Racism by Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin (white author)
• Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting In America by Nefertiti Austin
• Teaching Your Kid About Black History Month by Nefertiti Austin
• Parenting Forward by Cindy Wang Brandt
• Parenting Forward (podcast)
• Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Front Lines edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams
• Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
• We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain
• Fare of the Free Child (podcast)
• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey” 

Children’s literature

• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
• I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
• Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
• Dim Sum For Everyone! by Grace Lin
• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez And Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation by Duncan Tonatuih
• Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock, by Aslan and Kelly Tudor
• The Day You Begin by Jaqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• Hot Hot Roti for Dada-ji by F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min
• The Boy And The Wall, Palestinian Children in the Aida Refugee Camp
• New Kid by Jerry Craft

Resources for Black mental health

• Resource guide for Black healing: resources put together specifically in response to George Floyd protests
• The Safe Place: app developed by Jasmin Pierre, a Black woman who struggled with depression, educating about mental health issues geared toward the Black community
• Podcasts on Black mental health and therapy, articles, therapist search 
• Mental health and other therapy related podcasts and other resources developed by and for Black women, includes therapist search 
• Black Therapists Rock: includes therapist search. This group recently published a book.
• Resources geared towards queer and trans people of color 
• Black Mental Health Alliance
• Black Lives Matter meditations: including a 17-minute meditation developed by Dr. Candice Nicole, Black Psychologist at University of Kentucky, in response to BLM movement to heal racial trauma
• Self-care kit from Association of Black Psychologists
• Radical Healing Collective
• Recommendations from Dr. Juliette McClendon, VA National Center for PTSD, on distinguishing racial trauma from PTSD
• #BlackLivesMatter in Psychotherapy
• VA Talking points for Discussing Community Trauma in Response to Killings and Mistreatment of Black and Brown Americans from the perspective of a Black clinician to talk with Black clients: includes cross-racial providers and important information on word choice and learning the facts about recent killings.
• Managing burnout for activists of color
• Coping-related resource: Note this resource was not developed by Black people but has been endorsed by and includes many.

UW specific resources for all students

• UW Counseling Center (student support via secure Zoom session, by appointment)
• Let’s Talk (student support via Zoom, no appointment necessary)
• Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (student resources and opportunities)
• SafeCampus (student and employee 24-hour hotline support)
• Bias Incident Reporting Tool (student and employee resources and incident report form)
• CareLink (employee resources)

Take action

• Justice for Breonna Taylor petition
• Justice for David McAtee petition
• Color of Change petition to end police brutality
• Justice for Tony McDade petition
• How To Support Black Trans People Right Now 

Other resources

• Talking About Race: A Guide from the National Museum of African American History & Culture 
• Obama Foundation: Anguish and Action
• JSTOR’s Institutionalized Racism Syllabus 
• Want to learn more about being anti-racist? Here’s a comprehensive list of books, articles, and podcasts (including kid-friendly resources) 
• Want to take action? Start here, with 75 things people can do for racial justice.
• Want to talk with kids about racism? Here’s a great toolkit, an age by age guide, and a list of 31 books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance.
• For a vision of what economic justice for Black people in the US could look like, read The Case for Reparations.
• Having trouble wrapping your head around acts of vandalism and looting at protests? You might want to read this article: In defense of looting or this thought piece from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
• And finally, this New York Times article is a great primer for the reasons behind asks to defund the police: Why it’s time to stop funding the police. 

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Sources

• Jonathan Kanter, PhD
• Sarah Sophie Flicker
• Alyssa Klein
• Shareable Anti-Racism Resource Guide
• Anti-Racism Resources for White People 
• Actionable Steps for Therapists (and all Human Beings) in Response to the Radical Pandemic 

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