Resources for Juneteenth | Bottle Rocket

Along with our friends at Ogilvy, we have compiled a list of books, articles, videos, podcasts and learnings to educate yourself and others in honor of Juneteenth.

• We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
• by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• Manchild In the Promised Land by Claude Brown
• Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
• Freedom is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
• Where Do We Go From Here by Martin Luther King Jr. 
• From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
• Letters to The Future: Black Women/Radical Writing by Erica Hunt
• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• We’re On: A June Jordan Reader by Christoph Keller
• Futures of Black Radicalism by Gaye Theresa Johnson
• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Burning House by Anders Walker
• An Anti-Racist Reading List from The New York Times
• Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
•  ELOQUENT RAGE: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Articles

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
• Why You Should Speak Up Even When It’s Not Easy by Kevin Daum
• Three Things You Can Do Now to Take Action an Ally in the Workplace by Katie Burke
• What Your Black Employees and Customers Need to Hear by Jade and Noelle Johnson
• Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge Op-Ed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Working on hard mode: Being Black in Corporate America by Zach Stubblefield
• How to Talk to Your Kids about Racism by CPINDEA from PBS
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay – Chances Are They’re Not by Danielle Cade 
• The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice
• So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth? By Derrick Bryson Taylor
• What Students Are Saying About Race and Racism in America
• The Ideology of Racism: Misusing Science to Justify Racial Discrimination 
• 158 Resources to Understand Racism in America 
• U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
• The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

Watch

• Jane Elliott’s Anti-racism Experiment – A Class Divided (PBS Frontline)
• When They See Us – The story of 5 teenaged boys falsely accused of rape in Central Park (available on Netflix)
• I Am Not Your Negro – A documentary of James Baldwin’s story about race in modern America (available to stream on Apple iTunes, or Amazon Prime)
• TED Talk: Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable by Luvvie Adjayi
• TEDx Talk: Let’s get to the root of racial injustice by Megan Ming Francis
• Free movies about racial injustice curated by The Verge
• Curated list of streaming movies about racism by USA Today
• Curated list of films by NPR
• “Juneteenth: Together We Triumph — A ‘Soul of a Nation’ Special Event.” on ABC. Watch Former President Barack Obama sits for an interview with “GMA’s” Michael Strahan as part of the ABC News special
• Watch Juneteenth: A Celebration of Overcoming on Hulu
• Watch Juneteenth Jamboree on PBS
• Juneteenth: A Day to Reflect on Freedom
• What is Juneteenth by National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Freedom Calling: Interactive Tour with Founding Director Lonnie Bunch III 
• 13th - available on Netflix
• When They See Us- available on Netflix
• What is Juneteenth?

Listen

• Race Matters: Webinar Series by Korn Ferry
• Into an American Uprising: White Accountability by Into America
• Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race Webinar
• Addressing Historical Trauma Podcast
• Raising our Black Sons: Perspectives from Mothers Black Boys and Men Podcast
• Police Brutality & Trauma Black Boys and Men Podcast
• Curated list of podcasts by NPR
• Curated list of podcasts by ncpr
• Apple Music Juneteenth 2022 Playlist: The playlist consists of 16 artists spanning various genres, paying homage to the beauty of the Black experience.
• Louder Than a Riot on NPR reveals the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration.
• NATAL: a podcast docuseries about having a baby while Black in the United States.

• Pod for the Cause: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Learn

• Google's course on Unbiasing
• Project READY training on implicit bias and microagressions
• The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism Conference
• Facebook's Managing Unconscious Bias Training
• Forbes: How to Create Effective Online Diversity Trainings
• A collection of courses on race, inequality and social justice
• Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History by the University of Illinois
• Anti-Racism I by the University of Colorado at Boulder
• From Freedom Rides to Ferguson: Narratives of Nonviolence in the American Civil Rights Movement by Emory University 
• Revolutionary Ideas: Utility, Justice, Equality, Freedom by Rutgers University 
• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
• Financial Literacy In The Black Community

Join

• Join The Juneteenth Yard Sign Campaign: https://juneteenth.com/yardsign_campaign/
• Register Your Company or celebration With The National Juneteenth Register: https://juneteenth.com/registry/
• Join the Junteenth Freedom Festival which includes career fairs, concerts and celebrations https://thejuneteenthfoundation.com/freedomfest/
• Tune into the virtual Juneteenth Unityfest which will feature musical performances, films, stand-up, storytelling, and appearances by civic leaders and pop culture influencers. https://juneteenthunityfest.com/

Act

• 4 Ways You Can Tackle Racial Discrimination In Your Workplace 
• 13 Effective Ways To Educate Employees On Diversity 
• An inclusion expert and a CEO on how businesses can keep the anti-racist momentum going 
• How to have more productive conversations about race in the workplace 
• How do I talk about race at work?
• 'Get some courage': How to start the hard conversations about race at your company
• How to challenge discrimination at work 
• Taking Steps to Eliminate Racism in the Workplace
• A Question of Color: A Debate on Race in the U.S. Workplace
• 1,000 Cuts: The Toll Of Racism In The Workplace
• Confronting Racism at Work: A Reading List

Donate

Places to donate through Brightfunds:

• NAACP
• National Black Child Development Institute
• National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

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