My Fellow Travelers,

I have heard over and over again from folks in our Hamline Church community and beyond about how to talk to kids about racism. And lately I’ve been getting inquiries about how to start antiracism work. The first steps is always to breath and invite God into any conversation with kids and/or any attempt to educate oneself on the work ahead.  The following list is a collection of resources that can help you navigate your own journey. Many thanks to all who contributed to the creation of this resource – and please know that it is a work in progress, so send us resources that you find particularly helpful.

All encompassing websites
Anti-Racism Resources from Faithful Famlies: https://www.fpcfaithfulfamilies.com/anti-racism-resources
Anti-racism resources for white folks: http://bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

Information for Parents
Podcasts:

• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
• Fare of the Free Child podcast
• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White

Articles:

• PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

• Child Mind Institute: Racism and Violence: How to Help Children handle the news
• NPR – 26 minutes – What to say to Kids when the news is scary
• NPR – 6 minutes – How White Parents can talk to their kids about Race
• MN Association for Children’s Mental Health Resource List – click here
• Bringing the Elephant in the Room (podcast) http://chromaticelephant.com/
• Kitchen Table Talk/ Parenting is Political – Rebellion and Uprising

Information for Young Kids

• Sesame Street – Community Violence
• Storytime/Niagara Falls Underground Heritage Center – Something Happened in our Town

Children’s Book List

• Washington Post – Children’s Book can help start the conversations about Race – Parents need to continue it.
• Conscious Kid – Children’s Book website
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• Embrace Race: Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• Colours of Us
• Colours of Us: 37 Children’s Books to help start the conversation

Resources for Teens

• The ABC’s of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences by Carolyn B. Helsel, Y. Joy Harris-Smith (Chalice)
• For the pre-teen and teen crowd, author Tiffany Jewell teams up with illustrator Aurélia Durand to bring us This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books)
• Khristi Lauren Adams‘, Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color (Broadleaf)
• The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (also a movie; numerous study guides available online)
• Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope (IVP) (could be an excellent parent/youth at-home/small group discussion)