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Racial Justice and Anti-Racism Resources
for Parents and Educators


Websites
  • Center for Racial Justice in Education
    Resources to empower educators to dismantle patterns of racism & injustice in schools and communities.
  • EmbraceRace
    Resources for parents and teachers. Site offers webinars, tip sheets, book suggestions and more.
  • Teaching for Change
    Book lists & teaching resources on diverse groups & social justice.
  • The 1619 Project
    An ongoing project initiated by The New York Times to examine the legacy of slavery in the United States.
  • The Brown Bookshelf
    A site created for children & teens by authors & illustrators to encourage awareness of books written & illustrated by African American authors & illustrators.
  • The Girl Scouts
    Site offers a tip sheet on taking action against racism.
  • The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian
    Site offers resources for talking about race and antiracism.
  • Project Ready: Re-imagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth
    A free online professional development curriculum offered by UNC Chapel Hill's School of Information & Library Science.
  • Teaching Tolerance
    Free resources for educators that emphasize anti-bias and social justice in order to encourage children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy
  • Zinn Education Project
    Site offers a variety of teaching resources on a variety of social justice topics.
  • 100 Race-conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child to Advance Racial Justice
  • Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
  • Here's How W. Kamau Bell Talks About Race With His Kids
  • Raising Race Conscious Children- A resource to support adults who are trying to talk about race with young children.
  • Talking to Children Authentically about Race and Racism (PBS Kids for Parents) –  A conversation featuring fellow parents, educators and child development and trauma experts about how you can talk with young children about racial injustice and violence against Black people.
  • "Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism" (CNN/Sesame Street) – A town hall for kids and families to give kids and parents "an opportunity to explore the current moment the nation is living through and to understand how these issues affect people."
  • The Conscious Kid – An education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth. ​
Nonfiction Books
Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools by Monique W. Morris
Ghosts in the schoolyard : racism and school closings on Chicago's South side by Eve L. Ewing
The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom, edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Young, triumphant, and Black : overcoming the tyranny of segregated minds in desegregated schools, edited by Tarek C. Grantham, Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott, and Deborah A. Harmon
Racism explained to my daughter / Tahar Ben Jelloun
My Brown Baby by Denene Millner
We can't teach what we don't know : White teachers, multiracial schools by Gary R. Howard

Podcasts
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Talking Race With Young Children - NPR Podcast
Seeing White Podcast
Fare of the Free Child Podcast
Alphabet Rockers - Music and Podcasts

Videos

Hours and Contact Information

Main Library
​1425 Main Street 

Hours:
Monday:        9am - 9pm
Tuesday:        9am - 9pm
Wednesday:  9am - 9pm
Thursday:     9am - 5pm
Friday:           9am - 5pm
Saturday:      9am - 5pm
Sunday: Closed
​716-286-4894


​Email: 
nflref@nioga.org

Local History Dept.
1425 Main Street

Hours:
Monday: 5pm - 8pm
Tuesday: 9am - 4pm
Wednesday: 1pm - 4pm
Thursday: 9am - 4pm
Contact us:
Email: NFLH@nioga.org

*Requests for items from archives must be submitted 2 business days in advance. 

LaSalle Library
8728 Buffalo Avenue

Hours: 
Monday:        10am - 8pm
Tuesday:        10am - 8pm
Wednesday:  Closed
Thursday:     10am - 5pm
Friday:           12pm - 5pm
Saturday:      Closed
​Sunday:        Closed
​716-283-8309

Our Memberships

American Library Assocation
New York Library Association
Public Library Association
Nioga Library System
American Association for State and Local History
Western New York Library Resources Council
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