Anti-Racism Resources: 47 Books, Podcasts, Movies, and More

B Lab and the global community of Certified B Corporations are continuously developing ways to build a more just, inclusive, and actively anti-racist economy. For those interested in self-education on this topic, the team at B Lab U.S. & Canada has compiled a list of 47 recommended reading and viewing resources on systemic racism and injustice. The majority of this list was originally published on B Lab’s Anti-Racism Resources landing page in 2020. We are uplifting it now in honor of Black History Month in the United States.

Anti-Racist Reading List

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
• Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, David A. Thomas
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
• The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

If you are purchasing a book, consider these three resources for socially responsible book-buying:

• Black-owned bookstores with online sales
• Better World Books, a B Corp that donates one book for every book sold
• Libro.fm, audiobook sales that support indie bookstores

Anti-Racist Articles and Digital Resources

• 103 Things White People Can Do by Corinne Shutack
• Anti-Racism Resources for White People by Alyssa Klein and Sarah Sophie Flicker
• A Guide to Allyship
• In Conversation: Desmond Cole and Téa Mutonji by Téa Mutonji
• Path to Reconciliation from the Edmonton Public Library
• The Story of Africville from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
• Who Gets to Be Afraid In America? by Ibram Kendi
• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup by Katrina Michie
• U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism by Laura Morgan Roberts and Ella F. Washington
• Toward a Racially Just Workplace by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo
• Taking Steps to Eliminate Racism in the Workplace by Arlene Hirsch
• How Companies Can Pull Up for Black Employees During a Race Crisis by Erin L. Thomas
• What Companies Can Do to Combat Systemic Racism Against Black Colleagues in the Workplace by Sarah Vieux
• 5 Conversations Credible Leaders Must Have In This Moment by Terina Allen
• 7 Ways Your Organisation Can Start to Uproot Systemic Racism in the Workplace by Sandra Caballero
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not by Danielle Cadet
• Diversity in Everyday Discourse by Joyce M. Bell and Douglas Hartmann

Anti-Racist Films, Videos, Music

• 13th (streaming on Netflix)
• Beyond Moving, Vikram Dasgupta (Hot Docs Canada)
• Coded Bias, Shalini Kantayya (Hot Docs Canada)
• How You Create an Anti-Racist Workplace by Lekan Olawoye (BPTN)
• I Am Not Your Negro (streaming on Netflix)
• Journey to Justice, Roger McTair (National Film Board of Canada)
• Malcolm X (streaming on HBO Max)
• Ninth Floor, Mina Shum (National Film Board of Canada)
• Public Address on Revolution: Revolution Now by Rachel Cargle
• Sandy Hudson (Black Lives Matter Toronto) in conversation with National Observer
• Selma (streaming on Amazon Prime)
• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 by Goran Hugo Olsson
• The Colour of Beauty, Elizabeth St. Philip (National Film Board of Canada)
• The Hate U Give (streaming on Amazon Prime)
• The Skin We’re In (streaming on CBC)
• When They See Us (streaming on Netflix)
• Whose Streets? by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis (Paradise Theatre, Canada)