A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White People Talk Faithfully about Racism by Carolyn B. Helsel
Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper
Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and Time by Beth Roy
Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination by Vincent W. Lloyd
Black Is a Rainbow Color (YA) by Ekua Holmes
Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by bell hooks and Cornel West
Brown v. Board Of Education: The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court Edited by Leon Friedman

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams and Keisha N. Blain
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey
Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland
Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith

Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights by Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr.
Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography by Constance Baker Motley

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II by Cedric Robinson
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir by Barbara C. Harris, Edited by Kelly Brown Douglas
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez 
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America by Tyler Merritt
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians by Jake Page

Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle Over Northern School Segregation 1865-1954 by Davison Douglass
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Living God's Future Now: Conversations with Contemporary Prophets by Samuel Wells, Walter Brueggemann, Steve Chalke, et. al.

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights by Philippa Strum
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (YA) by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

No Turning Back: The Black Presence at Virginia Theological Seminary by Rev. Joseph M. Constant

On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
Other Sheep I Have: The Autobiography of Father Paul M. Washington by Paul M. Washington with David Mcl. Gracie, afterword by Barbara Harris
Our Problem, Our Path: Collective Antiracism for White People by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Prayers for a Privileged People by Walter Brueggemann
Preaching Black Lives (Matter) by Gayle Fisher-Stewart
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley
Reparations: A Plan for Churches by Peter Jarrett-Schell
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter by Dean Kelly Brown Douglas
Ripe Fields: The Promise and Challenge of Latino Ministry by Juan Oliver
Root And Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James Jr.

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library (YA) by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle For Equality by Richard Kluger
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglass Blackmon
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights (YA) by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Tim Ladig
The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. Blain
The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community by Stephanie Spellers
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military by Rawn James Jr.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipsitz
The Price of a Child by Lorene Cary
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese Singh
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing by Joe Feagin
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Trouble I’ve Seen by Drew G. I. Hart

Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia by Matthew J. Countryman

Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century by Randall Kenan
Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (YA) by Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood and Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III 

Note: Fundraising for Local Black-owned Bookstores
Anti-racism training attendees who complete the online program evaluation can select a highly-recommended book on anti-racism for further study. Recently, ARC decided to purchase and ship books through Bookshop.org. Bookshop.org believes local bookstores are essential community hubs that foster culture, curiosity, and a love of reading, and they're committed to helping them thrive. The full profit from purchases on Bookshop.org will be donated directly to the designated bookstore - or added to a profit sharing pool that helps all of the 1,600+ independent bookstores in the Bookshop.org network. Our designated bookstore is and Uncle Bobbie's Books and Coffee (5445 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia).

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Origin Written and directed by Ava DuVernay (141 mins) Based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabela Wilkerson. In theaters now.
The 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay (100 mins)
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985 Produced by Blackside
Race - The Power of Illusion Produced by California Newsreel

Becoming Beloved Community Where You Are: A Resource for Individuals, Congregations and Communities Seeking Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice by The Episcopal Church