Resources for Agitators
Abolitionist Teaching
Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools (Bettina Love, Gholdy Muhammad, Dena Simmons and Brian Jones)
Abolitionist Teaching: 'It's About You Caring and Loving our Culture' (Kathryn Kao and Bettina Love)
Freedom Dreaming – Book Review – We Want to Do More Than Survive (Joe Truss)
Repurposing Our Pedagogies (Stephanie Cariaga, Bettina Love, Sagnicthe Salazar, Carla Shalaby, Marylin Zuniga, Farima Pour-Khorshid, and Chrissy A. Z. Hernandez)
Through Abolitionist Teaching, American Educators Can Help Kids 'Do More Than Survive' (Leighton Rowell and Virginia Prescott with Bettina Love)
We Want to Do More Than Survive (Genevieve DeBose Akinnagbe, Bettina Love, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, and Brian Jones)
Welcome Webinar Crowd-Sourced Resources (compiled by Laurie Barth Walczak)
Abolition
Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the War on Drugs and Why Social Movements Shouldn't Wait on Obama (Democracy Now!)
Beyond Reform: Abolishing Prisons (Maya Schenwar)
Empty Cages Collective: Resources
No One is Disposable: Resources and Context for a Conversation on Prison Abolition (Barnard Center for Research on Women)
Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness (The Abusable Past Collective)
The Abolitionist Toolkit (Critical Resistance)
The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration (Democracy Now!)
The Fallacy of Prison Reform (Angela Davis)
What a World Without Cops Would Look Like (Rachel Kushner)
Why There's A Push To Get Police Out Of Schools (Anya Kamenetz)
Abolitionist Organizations:
Anti-Racist Social and Emotional Learning
Dear White Teachers: You Can't Love Your Black Students If You Don't Know Them (Bettina Love)
Disrupting Systemic Whiteness in the Mindfulness Movement (Mindful)
Educate to Liberate: Build an Anti-Racist Classroom (Joshua Block)
How to Be an Antiracist Educator (Dena Simmons)
Social-Emotional Learning for Black Students is Ineffective When it is Culture-Blind (Donna Ford)
What Happened When My School Started to Dismantle White Supremacy Culture (Joe Truss)
When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing (Communities for Just Schools Fund)
White Teachers Need Anti-Racist Therapy (Bettina Love)
Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning (Dena Simmons)
Anti-Racist Teaching Tools
A Guide to Equity and Antiracism for Educators (Hedreich Nichols, Edutopia)
Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (Teaching Tolerance)
Anti-Racist Work in Schools: Are You in it for the Long Haul? (Elizabeth Kleinrock, Teaching Tolerance)
Author Interview With Dr. Gholdy Muhammad: 'Cultivating Genius' (Larry Ferlazzo)
Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator (Wheaton College)
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy (Education Now)
Teaching Hard History From the Beginning (Julia Delacroix)
What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently (Pirette McKamey)
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter at School (Black Lives Matter at School)
Herstory (Black Lives Matter)
Why Black Lives Matter (Ben & Jerry's)
Podcasts
Floodlines (The Atlantic)
Intersectionality Matters! (African American Policy Forum and Kimberle Crenshaw)
Irresistible (formerly Healing Justice)
Momentum (Race Forward)
NYC Healing Collective (Angel Acosta)
1619 (The New York Times)
Still Processing (The New York Times)
Throughline (NPR)
Too Dope Teachers and a Mic (Mister Munoz)
Women at Work (Harvard Business Review)
Racial Self Care
Radical Self Care: Angela Davis (AfroPunk)
Talking About Race
Essential Book for Discussing Racism With Kids (Jacqueline Woodson)
Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About Black Lives And Police Violence (Anya Kamenetz)
7 Ways to Highlight Resistance Efforts When Discussing Oppression with Children (Mia Birdsong)
Talking About Race (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture)
TED Talks to Watch
How to Raise a Black Son in America (Clint Smith)
The Danger of Silence (Clint Smith)
The Racial Politics of Time (Brittney Cooper)
The Urgency of Intersectionality (Kimberle Crenshaw)
We Need to Talk About an Injustice (Bryan Stevenson)
Understanding Racism
A Conversation on Race and Privilege (Angela Davis and Jane Elliott)
Engineered Conflict (David Stovall)
How Structural Racism Works (Tricia Rose)
It’s one thing to discuss white privilege; it’s another to give it up (Maureen Downey)
Mapping Prejudice (University of Minnesota Libraries)
"So You Want to Talk About Race" (Ijeoma Oluo)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide (Carol Anderson)
Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning (Dena Simmons)
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