Carter G. Woodson Museum

Located in St. Petersburg, the mission of Carter G. Woodson Museum to preserves, present, and interpret African American history and to engage a broad and diverse audience on issues of social justice.

Florida Holocaust Museum

The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

Books

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coats)
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Angela Y. Davis)
• Black Skin. White Masks. (Frantz Fanon)
• The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale)
• So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (Hilary Moore and James Tracy)
• Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine (Emily Bernard)
• The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Claudia Rankine)
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
• How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (Mumia Abu-Jamal)
• Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Angela J. Davis)
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Layla F. Saad)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Bryan Stevenson)
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Jennifer Harvey)
• The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism – Jemar Tisby; Lecrae Moore
• Race for Profit: How banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C. Vann Woodward
• From the War on Poverty to the War in Crime – Elizabeth Hinton
• Slavery and Social Death – Orlando Patterson
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley – Malcolm X
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race – Beverly Daniel Tatum
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South – Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• White Negros: When Cornrows Were in Vogue…and other thoughts on Cultural Appropriation – Lauren Michele Jackson
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir – Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Asha Bandele
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson
• Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
• Case: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide – Carol Anderson
• The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America – Gilbert King
• Killers of the Dream – Lillian Smith

Fiction Books

• The Nickle Boys – Colson Whitehead
• Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
• Such a Fun Age – Kiley Ward
• Freshwater – Akwaeke Emezi

Young Adult Books (ages 13 and up)

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You – Jason Reynolds; Ibram X Kendi
• This book is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Work – Tiffany Jewell; Aurelia Durand
• A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope – Patrice Caldwell
• Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream – Blair Imani
• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America – _Ibi Zoboi; Dhonielle Clayton, et al _
• Dear Martin – Nic Stone
• Dear Justyce – Nic Stone
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide – Carol Anderson
• All American Boys – Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
• Say Her Name – Zetta Elliott

Children/Middle-Grade Books (ages 12 and younger)

• The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander
• Africa is Not a Country – Mark Melnicove; Margy Burns Knight
• The Proudest Blue – Ibtihaj Muhammad; S.K. Ali
• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation – Duncan Tonatiuh
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement – Carole Boston Weatherford
• Don’t Touch My Hair – Sharee Miller
• Antiracist Baby – Ibram X. Kendi
• Last Stop on Market Street – Matt de la Peña
• The Skin I’m In – Sharon G. Flake
• Black Brother, Black Brother – Jewell Parker Rhodes

Film and TV Series

Netflix

• 13th (Ava DuVernay)
• American Son (Kenny Leon)
• Dear White People (Justin Simien)
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
• Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

Available to Rent

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) —or on Kanopy
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
• Selma (Ava DuVernay)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• 42 (Brian Helgeland)
• Freedom Riders (Stanley Nelson Jr)

Hulu

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) – Hulu with Live TV

HBO

• King In The Wilderness — HBO
• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
• Class Divide
• 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

YouTube

• “We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd” – Patriot Act
• “What Does It Mean to Defund or Abolish the Police?”

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White
• Joe Truss: Challenging White Supremacy

Online resources

• Anti-racism guide
• It will take deliberate action by policymakers at every level of government to end police violence.
• Data proves that together these eight policies can decrease police violence by 72%.
• Systemic racism explained
• Racial Justice Reading and Black Owned Business list
• #BlackLivesMatter Info Card
• African American Literature Book Club
• An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi (NYT)
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
• Law for Black Lives
• The Black History Month Library
• The BU Center for Antiracist Research
• Blog Post on a list of Resources, Bail Funds, Readings, etc
• Black Creators Funding Initiative
• List of Black-Owned Beauty and Wellness Businesses
• Green Book of Tampa Bay
• Black-Owned Bookstores Twitter Thread
• Split your donation amongst 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizations