Category: Resources

Because Several Folks Keep Asking for a Reading List for Children (0-12)

Via Sujei Lugo Vázquez (@sujeilugo)  + Alia Jones (@readitrealgood). Because Several Folks Keep Asking for a Reading List for Children (0-12) #BlackLivesMatter 😉 ✊????✊???? Compiled by Sujei Lugo Vázquez (@sujeilugo)  + Alia Jones (@readitrealgood) [Last updated: June 5, 2020] Blackness/Ancestors/Elders The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Kadir Nelson Black Women Who Dared by Naomi M. Moyer … Read More

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How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson

Via The Atlantic.  How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson  A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing by MARCIA CHATELAIN AUGUST 25, 2014 When the unrest in Ferguson erupted, my husband made an observation that broke my heart: “The kids were supposed to start school today.” For me, … Read More

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Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness

Via Goodreads. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham  4.28  ·   Rating details ·  833 ratings  ·  235 reviews Not My Idea, the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness. A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person whose hands were up. Upset, … Read More

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Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano

Via Goodreads.  Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by  Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)  4.13  ·   Rating details ·  532 ratings  ·  136 reviews Something Happened in Our Town follows two families — one White, one Black — as they … Read More

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20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good

Via Embrace Race.  20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good by Autumn Allen, Krista Aronson and the Diverse BookFinder Team, and Megan Dowd Lambert Parents and other caregivers are seeking resources to help them hold children through the current, terrible wave of racialized violence, which is exacerbated by the tensions and vulnerabilities exposed … Read More

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Conscious Kid (Instagram)

Via Conscious Kid.  Conscious Kid (Instagram) The Conscious Kid Parenting and Education through a Critical Race Lens. Diverse #OwnVoices Books. Black and Brown Owned. COVID-19 #RENTRELIEF For Familiestheconsciouskid.org/donate. See more via The Conscious Kid on Instagram. Via Conscious Kid. 

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