The following list has been compiled from a variety of sources and is updated continually, as a living document. It is by no means complete nor exhaustive. We welcome any suggestions for inclusions on this page.
White Awake website, this page discusses white supremacy in particular with Rev. Angel Kyodo williams
Equity and Contemplative Practice by Sheryl Petty
Spiritual Bypassing in the Contemporary Mindful Movement by Carla Sherrell and Judith Simmer-Brown
Dismantling Racism: White Supremacy Culture resource by Tema Okun
How to be an Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Out There, Nobody Can Hear You Scream by Latria Graham
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
The Unbearable Grief of Black Mothers by A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
NPR: Want to understand the History of the US? This historian says the South holds the key – speech by Imani Perry
American Buddhism: For People of Color? by Lama Choyin Rangdrol
Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo & Michael Eric Dyson
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
Erasing Institutional Bias by Dr. Tiffany Jana, DM
Black Buddha: Changing the Face of American Buddhism by Lama Choyin Rangdrol
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
Black Looks: Race and Representation “Loving Blackness as Political Resistance” by Bell Hooks
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Kakuyo, Alex Perfectly Ordinary
Yetunde, Pamela Ayo & Giles, Cheryl Black and Buddhist
Wade, Breeshia Grieving While Black
Owens, Lama Rod Love and Rage
Ward, Larry America’s Racial Karma
Selassie, Sebene You Belong
Willis, Jan Dharma Matters, Dreaming Me
Johnson, Kate Radical Friendship
Magee, Rhonda The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness
King, Ruth Mindful of Race
Washam, Spring E. A Fierce Heart
Williams, Angel Kyodo Radical Dharma, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Adiele, Faith Meeting Faith
Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality and Gender, Sanctuary, The Deepest Peace
Wilkerson, Isabel The Warmth of Other Suns
Wise, Tim White Like Me
McIntosh, Peggy “Unpacking the invisible Knapsack”
Alexander, Michelle The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Steele, Claude Whistling Vivaldi
Zia, Helen Asian American Dreams
Farewell to Manzanar
Zinn,Howard A Peoples’ History of the United States
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
King, Martin L From Crisis to Community
Santiago, Esmerelda When I was Puerto Rican
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Allen, Paula Gunn The Sacred Hoop
Silko, Leslie Marmon Almanac of the Dead
Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Keller, Bill Class Matters
Lim, Shirley & Mayumi Tsutakawa The Forbidden Stitch:An Asian American Women’s Anthology
Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street
Brown, DeeBury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Hooks, Bell Ain’t I a Woman
From Margin to Center
Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Sula, Song of Solomon
Erdrich, Louise Tracks, Beet Queen, Love Medicine, The Antelope Wife
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Hochschild, Adam King Leopold’s Ghost
Abbott, Elizabeth Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Degrew, JoyPost Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Friere, Paulo Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Sams, Jamie The 13 Clan Mothers
Fanon, France Black Skins, White Masks
Baldwin, James The Fire Next Time
Coates, Ta-Nehisi Between the World and Me
Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
Lorde, Audre Sister Outsider, Zami
Ages 2-4: “Whose Knees Are These?” by Jabari Asim
Ages 5-8: “Under the Same Sun” by Sharon Robinson
“Be Boy Buzz” by Bell Hooks
“Every Little Thing” by Cedella Marley
“Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom” by Shane W. Evans
Ages 7-10: “The 1619 Project: Born on the Water” by Renee Watson
Ages 9-14: “Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America” by Sharon Robinson
“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison
“Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March” by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Photo by Josh Brownlee
13th The U.S. imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a third of U.S. prisoners are black. In this infuriating documentary, director Ava DuVernay argues that mass incarceration, Jim Crow and slavery are “the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date.”
I Am Not Your Negro Narrated by the words of James Baldwin with the voice of Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro connects the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. Although Baldwin died nearly 30 years before the film’s release, his observations about racial conflict are as incisive today as they were when he made them.
Whose Streets? The 2014 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo. was one of the deaths that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Frustrated by media coverage of unrest in Ferguson, co-directors Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis documented how locals felt about police in riot gear filling their neighborhoods with tear gas. As one resident says, “They don’t tell you the fact that the police showed up to a peaceful candlelight vigil…and boxed them in, and forced them onto a QuikTrip lot.”
LA 92 LA 92 is about the Los Angeles riots that occurred in response to the police beating of Rodney King. The film is entirely comprised of archival footage — no talking heads needed. It’s chilling to watch the unrest of nearly 30 years ago, as young people still take to the streets and shout, “No justice, no peace.”
Teach Us All Over 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, American schools are still segregated. Teach Us All explains why that is — school choice, residential segregation, biased admissions processes — and talks to advocates working for change. Interspersing interviews from two Little Rock Nine members, the documentary asks how far we’ve really come.
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
In this two-part series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. chronicles the last 50 years of black history through a personal lens. Released days after the 2016 election, some themes of the documentary took on a deeper meaning amid Donald Trump’s win. “Think of the civil rights movement to the present as a second Reconstruction — a 50-year Reconstruction — that ended last night,” Gates said in an interview with Salon.
15 Fascinating Art Documentaries
Picture Bride
Bhaji on the Beach
Passion for Justice
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Saving Face
Real Girls Have Hips
The Joy Luck Club
Glory
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Mississippi Masala
Smoke Signals
Pow Wow Highway
Roots
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Hidden Figures
Fences
Moonlight
Imitation of Life (The older version)
Rosewood
Ms. Rainey’s Black Bottom
One Night in Miami
Malcolm & Marie
High Flying Bird
Dolemite is my Name
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
High on the Hog
In Our Mother’s Garden
Concrete Cowboy
They’ve Gotta Have Us
Floodlines from The Atlantic
An audio documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Floodlines is told from the perspective of four New Orleanians still living with the consequences of governmental neglect. As COVID-19 disproportionately infects and kills Americans of color, the story feels especially relevant. “As a person of color, you always have it in the back of your mind that the government really doesn’t care about you,” said self-described Katrina overcomer Alice Craft-Kerney.
1619 from The New York Times
“In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began.” Hosted by recent Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 audio series chronicles how black people have been central to building American democracy, music, wealth and more.
Intersectionality Matters! from The African American Policy Forum
Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading critical race theorist who coined the term “intersectionality,” this podcast brings the academic term to life. Each episode brings together lively political organizers, journalists and writers. This recent episode on COVID-19 in prisons and other areas of confinement is a must-listen.
Throughline from NPR
Every week at Throughline, our pals Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei “go back in time to understand the present.” To understand the history of systemic racism in America, we recommend “American Police,” “Mass Incarceration” and “Milliken v. Bradley.”
Verna Myers Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams Interview
Master Class : Black History, Black Freedom & Black Love **there may be fees associated
Queer Liberation and Being Unseen
Teacher Spotlights: Arturo Peal and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Recommended Reading – The Sacred Feminine
Dakini Store Books for Black History Month
Equity Diversity and Inclusion Council Annual Update
Embodying Equity with Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.
Teacher Spotlight: H.E. Chung Tulku Rinpoche
Teacher Spotlight: Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Spotlight: Women Guest Teachers
Pride 2022: The Gift of Queerness
Teacher Spotlight: Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
Diving Deeper Into Black History
Teacher Spotlight: Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
EDI 2021 Wrap Up and New Plans
Honoring Native American Heritage Month
Scholarships And New Access Pricing Plan
What’s In A Name? The Importance of Seeing and Being Seen
Upcoming Events with Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
In Solidarity With Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific-Islander (AAPI) Communities
Tara Mandala Celebrates International Women’s Day & Dakini Day
Wisdom Rising – Colorful Expressions Of Our Inner Being
Support for Tara Mandala and Our Current Initiatives
Addressing Racism and White Privilege
Connection In The Time of Coronavirus
Family Retreat: The Open Heart
Societal Awakening: Tara Mandala Retreats and Scholarships
Cultural Somatics University: Free Racialized Trauma Course with Resmaa Menakem
What if There Were No George Floyd Video?
The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.
I’m Finally an Angry Black Man
A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.
Call It What Is: Anti-Blackness
The Police Report to Me, But I Knew I Couldn’t Protect My Son
The One Police Reform That Both the Left and the Right Support
Check in on Your Black Employees, Now
Justice Is About More Than the Killing of George Floyd
Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us
Is It Safe to Keep Employing a Cleaner? Wrong Question, Lady
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