The following books and resources have been helpful to PHIMC staff as we continue to learn about and address racism. This list is not, and never can be, comprehensive, but we trust something here will resonate with you.

If there is a book or resource not listed here that has been especially helpful to you: Please let us know.

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
~ Maya Angelou

Books

• Black Faces, White Spaces, by Dr. Carolyn Finney
• Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, by Tom Burrell
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King
• Legacy on the Land, by Audrey and Frank Peterman
• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
• How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad
• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Olou
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

Book Lists 

• Compiled by Colours of Us – 37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination
• Compiled by Ibram X. Kendi, with additions by Chicago Public Library – Anti-Racist Reading List

Multimedia Resources 

• “13th,” a documentary film by director Ava DuVernay which explores the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States,” according to a New York Times review
• “1619,” an audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling
• “Under the Blacklight,” an audio and video series by African American Policy Forum (AAPF), moderated by Kimberle Crenshaw 
• “Talking About Race,” multimedia tools and guidance from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) facilitates racial healing circles for the greater Chicago community, trains practitioners, and partners with organizations to host racial healing circles

Resource Lists

• Resources and information to combat systemic racism in the United States, from the Anti-Racism Project and Cultural Bridges
• Anti-racism resources for white people, crowd-sourced and compiled in May 2020