Social Justice Resources

Contents

• Books
  • Black History
  • Books for Children
  • Books for Young Adults
  • Online Local Book Sellers
• Articles
• Museums
• Organizations
  • Antiracism
  • Justice Reform
  • Environmentsl Justice
  • Multiple Issues
  • Immigration
• Videos

Contact the team at socialjustice@unityoffairfax.org.

Books

Black History

• Black History Reading List

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Fragile Mind by Jarik Conrad
• How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Mindful of Race:  Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (link)
• On the Other Side of Freedom:  The Case for Hope by DeRay McKesson
• Stamped from the Beginning:  The Definitive History of Racism in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• They Were Her Property:  White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D.

Books for Children

• Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Books for Young Adults

• I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones

Online Local Book Sellers

• Online Local Book Sellers

Articles

• Daryl Davis, musician and 'converter' of KKK members
• The Source of Action by Richard Rohr (link)
• Can Meditation Help Us Address Racism? The Necessity of Evolving Beyond Ego by Craig Hamilton (link)
• Dr. Camara Jones, “The Gardener’s Tale a Theoretic Framework”
 (read here)
• Frederick Douglas' speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" - Teaching American History (link)
• How Race Was Made
• NY Times on-going 1619 Project
• What Black Lives Matter Means

Museums

• Black African-American Art History Meseums
• Frederick Douglass House

Organizations

Antiracism

• Race & The Spiritual Journey 5-Week Package, Jan-Apr 2021 by Milagros Phillips
• AGNT (Association of Global New Thought)
• Black Lives Matter
• BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Addiction Resources
• Tara Brach

Justice Reform

• American Civil Liberties Union: Racial Justice, Voting Rights, Disability Rights, Criminal Justice, LGBTQ, Immigration
• Brennan Center for Justice: Voting Rights, Mass Incarceration
• The Innocence Project
• Sojourners
• BLACK LIVES MATTER: Media and Where to Find It

Environmental Justice

• Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
• NAACP
• Indigenous Environmental Network

Multiple Issues

• Braver Angels
• Colorofchange.Org
• MoveOn.org
• Fairfax County NAACP
• Legal Aid Justice Center
• Virginia Organizing
• Poor Peoples Campaign
• Southern Poverty Law Center: Anti-hate and Extremism, Immigration, Voting Rights, LGBTQ, Criminal Justice

Immigration

• Congregation Action

Videos

• Jane Elliott
• Dr. Camara Jones, “Equitable Dinners Lift Every Voice” Event

• Dr. Camara Jones, “Allegories on Race and Racism” TED Talk
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” TED Talk
• The Danger of a Single Story:  Ted Talks
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo, "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism"
• Bryan Stephenson, “We need to talk about an injustice” TED Talk

• RaceHealerTV.com; Special website of Milagros Phillips - interviews, a magazine/podcast on healing racism
• Slavery by Another Name, a film based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book
• Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North Documentary traces how a northern family made their wealth through slave work although they didn’t own slaves
• Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016) Ties racism, police violence, structural racism and several social justice issues 

Contact the team at socialjustice@unityoffairfax.org.

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Updated October 28, 2022