Anti-Racism Resources
To assist our employees, physicians, vendors, stakeholders, volunteers in understanding and unraveling racism and the harm that it has brought to our community, we have prepared the following list of available resources that we hope will lead to careful consideration and thought about race, racism and more importantly a commitment to positive change for us all.
Web Resources
- Dr. King’s historic ‘I Have A Dream’ speech delivered on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
- Open Yale Course African American History: From Emancipation to the Present – an examination of the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present taught by Dr. Jonathan Holloway, formerly Professor of History, African American Studies, Yale University and Dean of Yale College (now President of Rutgers University)
- How to raise antiracist kids: 20 resources for parents
- Antiracism Meditation
- Talking about Race: the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Antiracism and America web series developed by American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center and The Guardian
- 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real
- What is Systemic Racism – an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society.
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
- Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
- White Privilege
- What is systemic racism in America?
- American segregation, mapped at day and night
- What Not To Say To Your Black Colleagues Right Now
- Breaking the Silence: Time to Talk About Race and Racism
- The patient called me ‘colored girl.’ The senior doctor training me said nothing
- What happened when I talked about what others ignore — racism in medicine
- Structural Solutions for the Rarest of the Rare — Underrepresented-Minority Faculty in Medical Subspecialties
- Microaggressions in the Classroom
- Race-Explicit Strategies for Workforce Equity in Healthcare and IT
- The Guide To Advance Racial Justice and Health Equity
- Systemic Racism Explained
Books
- So You Want to Talk about Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
- Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our own, by Eddie Glaude, Jr.
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, by Jon Meacham
- How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King
Podcasts
- Code Switch – Multi-race and multi-generational hosts have honest and nuanced discussion about how they constantly change their communication styles across different cultural spaces.
- We’re Having A Moment – An exploration of significant and defining moments in recent history involving race and policing.
- The Diversity Gap – Exploration of the gap between good intentions and good impact as it relates to diversity, inclusion and equity.
Self-Assessment Tools
Films
- The Color of Care – Produced by Oprah Winfrey, this film traces the history of unequal treatment of patients based on race, leading to racial disparities in healthcare from slavery through COVID-19. Stream the video on the Smithsonian Channel.
- The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) PSEG Diversity Film Series: Educational Justice American Promise
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story
- 13th
- Selma
- Eyes on the Prize – Fighting Back 1957-1962 America’s Civil Rights Movement
- The Hate You Give
- Limited Netflix Series: ‘When They See Us’ – chronicles five Black teenagers of color labeled the Central Park Five who were convicted of a rape that they did not commit.
- I Am Not Your Negro (2017, Netflix) – a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.
