Juneteenth Resources

Many of the books listed below can be purchased locally from Frugal Bookstore, a black-owned community bookstore in Roxbury.

• “The New Jim Crow- Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
• “Raising Our Hands” by Jenna Arnold
• “Between the World and Me” by Ta Nehisi Coates
• “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower” by Dr. Brittany Cooper
• “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• “On Juneteenth” by Annette Gordon-Reed
• “How To Be An Antiracist” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi 
• “So You Want to Talk about Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
• “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
• “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” by Edward E. Baptist
• “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America” by W. Caleb McDaniel
• “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• “They Were Her Property” by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• “Stony the Road” by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
• “My Vanishing Country” by Bakari Sellers
• “We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Black Pain” by Terrie Williams
• “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
• “Here I Stand” by Paul Robeson
• “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson
• “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” by C. Vann Woodward
• “Mirror to America” by John Hope Franklin

For Kids and Teenagers

• “All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom” by Angela Johnson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis
• “Juneteenth for Mazie” written and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
• “The Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure” by Steven Otfinoski
• “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life” by Ashley Bryan
• “Juneteenth Jamboree” by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Yvonne Buchanan
• “Black History for Beginners” by Denise Dennis, illustrated by Susan Willmarth
• “Wagon Wheels” by Barbara Brenner, illustrated by Don Bolognese
• “Freedom’s a-Callin Me” by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Rod Brown
• “Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave” by Laban Carrick Hill, illustrated by Bryan Collier
• “Escape From Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom” by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Charles Lilly
• “Sulwe” by Lupita Nyong’o
• “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson

• American Civil Liberties Union 
• Black Economics Council of Massachusetts
• Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective 
• Color of Change 
• Emancipation Park Conservancy
• Equal Justice Initiative 
• The Marshall Project 
• NAACP 
• National Urban League 
• Showing Up for Racial Justice 
• Southern Poverty Law Center 
• United Negro College Fund 
• Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts

• Growing Up With Juneteenth
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
• Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
• 5 Things Allies Can Do to Sponsor Coworkers from Underrepresented Groups
• How to Support the Struggle Against Police Brutality
• Be Brave Enough to Start A Conversation That Matters
• Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One
• How to Fight Racism in the Workplace
• 103 (and counting) Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
• Engaging in Conversations About Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace

• Black Lives Matter playlist
• Pod Save The People 
• Code Switch, NPR 
• 1619, The New York Times 
• Race Forward 
• Seeing White 
• Still Processing, NYT 
• Throughline, NPR 
• Black History Buff
• Conversations on Race & Healing, On Being
• Conversations with Civil Rights Elders, On Being
• The United States of Anxiety
• It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
• Ear Hustle
• Resistance
• Strange Fruit, NPR
• The Humanity Archive
• Black History for White People
• Intersectionality Matters!
• You Had Me at Black

• 13th, Directed by Ava DuVernay – Netflix
• When They See Us, Directed by Ava DuVernay – Netflix
• The Hate U Give, Directed by George Tillman Jr.
• American Son, Directed by Kenny Leon – Netflix
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, Directed by Roger Ross Williams – Netflix
• If Beale Street Could Talk, Directed by Barry Jenkins
• Fruitvale Station, Directed by Ryan Coogler 
• I Am Not Your Negro, Directed by Raoul Peck 
• Just Mercy, Directed by Daniel Cretton
• John Lewis: Good Trouble, Directed by Dawn Porter
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Created by Emmanuel Acho 
• Rodney King, Spoken Word, Directed by Spike Lee
• Loving, Directed by Jeff Nichols
• Cops and Robbers, Directed by Arnon Manor and Timothy Ware-Hill
• Whose Streets, Directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
• Trial 4, Directed by Rémy Burkel
• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, Directed by John Ridley
• Strong Island, Directed by Yance Ford
• The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Directed by Kelly Duane de la Vega
• What Happened Miss Simone?, Directed by Liz Garbus

• Primarily Black and Brown Owned Businesses
• Frugal Bookstore