What to Watch

Videos to watch with young children

• CNN and Sesame Street - Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, a town hall for kids and families. 

• Sesame Street Videos:

• I Love My Hair
• Change the World
• Color of Me

• Arthur on Racism: Talk, Listen, and Act | PBS KIDS

Movies for older children

• Hidden Figures | Ages 10+ | Theodore Melfi | 2016 | Hulu | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 
• Remember the Titans | Ages 10+ | Boaz Yakin | 2000 | Disney+ | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 
• 42 | Ages 11+ | Brian Helgeland | 2013 | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 
• Harriet | Ages 12+ | Kasi Lemmons | 2019 | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play and Vudu 
• The Help | Ages 13+ | Tate Taylor | 2011 | Netflix
• Just Mercy | Ages 13+ | Destin Daniel Cretton | 2019 | Netflix 
• The Hate U Give | Ages 13+ | George Tillman Jr. | 2018 | Hulu | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play and Vudu 
• Selma | Ages 13+ | Ava DuVernay | 2014 | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 
• The Color Purple | Ages 14+ | Steven Spielberg | 1985 | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 
• BlacKkKlansman | Ages 15+ | Spike Lee | 2018 | Hulu | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play and Vudu 
• 13th | Ages 15+ | Ava DuVernay | 2016 | Netflix 
• If Beale Street Could Talk | Ages 15+ | Barry Jenkins | Hulu
• 12 Years a Slave | Ages 15+ | Steve McQueen | 2013 | Available to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu 

What to Read

WHAT TO READ – PRESCHOOLERS

• The Colors of Us | Karen Katz 
• Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi 
• Let’s Talk About Race | Julius Lester 
• The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats 
• Saturday | Oge Mora 
• Whose Knees are These? | Jabari Asim
• Whose Toes are Those? | Jabari Asim
• Baby Says | John Steptoe
• I Love My Haircut! | Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
• Happy to Be Nappy | Chris Raschka

 

WHAT TO READ – EARLY READERS

• The Other Side | Jacqueline Woodson 
• A Kid’s Book About Racism    Jelani Memory 
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice | Melanie Celano, Marietta Collins & Ann Hazzard 
• The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson 
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness | Anastasia Higginbotham 
• Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry 
• Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson 
• The Youngest Marcher | Cynthia Levinson 
• Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice| Veronica Chambers 
• Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X | Ilyasah Shabazz 
• Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters | Andrea Davis Pinkney 
• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation | Duncan Tonatiuh 

WHAT TO READ – TWEENS & TEENS

• This Book is Anti-Racist | Tiffany Jewell 
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds and Ibrihim X. Kendi 
• March | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell 
• A Few Red Drops: Chicago Race Riots of 1919 | Claire Hartfield 
• Black Enough | Ibi Zoboi 
• All American Boys    Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely 

Toys to Purchase

• People Colors Crayon Pack 
• Sugarfoot Rag Dolls 
• Pattycake Doll Company