Via Common Sense Media. Check out These Books for Children and Young Adults from the List of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners Each winter (either January or February), the Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and … Read More
Via Anti-Racism Resources. Anti-racism Resources for White People This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues. … Read More
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
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
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
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
