We at Young Broadway Actor News have been listening to the ongoing conversations concerning Black Lives Matter. As we poured through resources to combat racism, we felt that sharing a listicle and walking away would not be enough. This is due to two reasons: 1) we recognize that the serious and unjust issues regarding the black community today must be addressed and 2) we are inspired by the younger generation who wishes to learn more about today’s issues to create a better and brighter world tomorrow. Over the past week, we have gathered over 300 resources for parents, kids, teens, and families to discuss racism with one and other in an age-appropriate way. All resources have been categorized by age group, which were determined by the particular resource’s author, publisher, or press release. The age recommendations are guides. It is up to each individual parent to decide what is appropriate for their children when considering their maturity level and emotional intelligence. On the flip side, feel free to explore the materials listed in a younger age group if you are a member of an older age group listed here. The resources below include the following: Books, movies, TV, documentaries, and theatre that discuss race, acceptance, civic engagement, police brutality, the black experience, and much more in an age appropriate way. We wanted to include media that not only educates the viewer on the issues of today, but to also diversify the type of people they see on screen and on stage. Some pieces of art are non-fiction looks at our current world. Others are positive examples of fictional works designed to entertain. Articles for parents created as a starting point for talking to children about race. Mental health/self care resources for people of all ages during this especially scary time. We recognize that this list alone will not stop racism completely. However, we see this as a starting point for long-lasting change – both in your own community and the world at large. We are always open to adding more to our list. Feel free to contact us at admin@youngbway.org for more additions. Books Please consider purchasing these books at any of the black-owned bookstores HERE or HERE. Books 0-3 years old (0+) Name Author A Letter To Amy Ezra Jack Keats Antiracist Baby Ibram X. Kendi Full, Full, Full of Love Trish Cooke Happy In Our Skin Fran Manushkin Hi, Cat! Ezra Jack Keats Skin Like Mine LaTashia M. Perry The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats We're Different, We're the Same Bobbi Jane Kates When's My Birthday? Julie Fogliano Whistle for Willie Ezra Jack Keats Woke Baby Mahogany L. Browne 4-6 years old (4+) Name Author All Are Welcome Alexandra Penfold Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Black is a Rainbow Color Angela Joy Brown Boy Brown Boy What Can You Be? Ameshia Arthur Chocolate Me Taye Diggs Coretta Scott Ntozake Shange Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut Derrick Barnes Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford Hair Love Matthew A Cherry Hands Up! Breanna J. McDaniel Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills Renée Watson I Am Brown Ashok Banker I Am Enough Grace Byers I am Rosa Parks Brad Meltzer I AM... Positive Affirmations for Brown Boys Ayesha Rodriguez In Plain Sight Richard Jackson It's In You Sharifa Anozie Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Peña Let's Talk About Race Julius Lester Mariama: Different But Just the Same Jerónimo Cornelles Mixed Me! Taye Diggs Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Carole Boston Weatherford My Brother, Martin Christine King Farris My Hair is a Garden Cozbi A. Cabrera Not Quite Snow White Ashley Franklin Over and Under the Pond Kate Messner Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis Jabari Asim Princess Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu Ylleya Fields Princess Hair Sharee Miller Remember: The Journey to School Integration Toni Morrison Rosa Nikki Giovanni Same, Same But Different Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw Saturday Oge Mora Skin Again Bell Hooks Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride Andrea Davis Pinkney Something Happened in Our Town Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard Sulwe Lupita Nyong'o The Airport Book Lisa Brown The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage: The Fight for Interracial Marriage Selina Alko The Colors of Us Karen Katz The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson The Legendary Miss Lena Horne Carole Boston Weatherford The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism Pat Thomas The Skin You Live In Michael Tyler The Youngest Marcher Cynthia Levinson Today I Dance Nia Sioux 7-9 years old (7+) Name Author A Good Kind of Trouble Lisa Moore Ramée A Ride to Remember Sharon Langley Blended Sharon M. Draper Child of the Civil Rights Movement Paula Young Shelton Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History Walter Dean Myers From the Desk of Zoe Washington Janae Marks Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrew Davis Pinkney Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Vashti Harrison Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X Ilyasah Shabazz Our Beautiful World of Colors: A Book to Help Your Child Understand Racial Diversity Adanma Onuoha George Ruth and the Green Book Calvin Alexander Ramsey Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down Andrea Davis Pinkney The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond Brenda Woods The Only Black Girls in Town Brandy Colbert The Season of Styx Malone Kekla Magoon The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles The Undefeated Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson The Zero Degree Zombie Zone Patrik Henry Bass Twintuition: Double Vision Tia and Tamera Mowry Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson Woke! A Young Poet's Call to Justice Mahogany Browne 10-12 years old (10+) Name Author As Brave As You Jason Reynolds Because They Marched Russell Freedman Blackbird Fly Erin Entrada Kelly Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship Irene Latham, Charles Waters For Black Girls Like Me Mariama J. Lockington Full Cicada Moon Marilyn Hilton Genesis Begins Again Alicia D. Williams Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Hold Fast Blue Balliett In The Shadow of Liberty Kenneth C. Davis Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai It All Comes Down to This Karen English Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History Vashti Harrison New Kid Jerry Craft Ninth Ward Jewell Parker Rhodes Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness Anastasia Higginbotham One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice Veronica Chambers Saint Louis Armstrong Beach Brenda Woods Sanity & Tallulah Molly Brooks Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library Stella by Starlight Sharon M. Draper The Crossover Kwame Alexander The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Lamar Giles The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul Curtis Tight Torrey Maldonado Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer Carole Boston Weatherford Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Carole Boston Weatherford Zora and Me Victoria Bond & T. R. Simon 13-15 years old (13+) Name Author A Few Drops of Red: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Claire Hartfield All American Boys Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely All Boys Aren't Blue George M. Johnson All the Right Stuff Walter Dean Myers Are You Being Racially Profiled? Alexandra Hanson-Harding Black Boy, White School Brian F.Walker Black Lives Matter (Special Reports) Sue Bradford Edwards, Duchess Harris Boy21 Matthew Quick Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance Simone Biles, Michelle Burford Darius & Twig Andrea Beach Dear Martin Nic Stone Discovering Wes Moore Wes Moore Electric Arches Eve Ewing Girls Resist! Kaelyn Rich How I Resist Maureen Johnson (edited) How It Went Down Kekla Magoon Hush Jacqueline Woodson I Am Alfonso Jones Tony Medina I'm Not Dying With You Tonight Gilly Segal, Kimberly Jones Jackpot Nic Stone Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Let Me Hear a Rhyme Tiffany D. Jackson Long Way Down Jason Reynolds Malcom X: By Any Means Necessary Walter Dean Myers March: Book One John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Mare's War Tanita Davis Miles Morales: Spider-Man Jason Reynolds Obviously, Stories from My Timeline Akilah Hughes Piecing Me Together Renée Watson Saving Savannah Tonya Bolden Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Stolen Justice Lawrence Goldstone The Hate U Give Angie Thomas The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Steve Shenkin The Self-Love Revolution Virgie Tovar The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom Lynda Blackmon Lowery Tyler Johnson Was Here Jay Coles Watch Us Rise Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson White Privilege M.T. Blakemore X: A Novel Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon 16-17 years old (16+) Name Author Sula Toni Morrison The Color Purple Alice Walker The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl Issa Rae Out of Darkness Ashley Hope Perez When You Ask Me Where I’m Going Jasmin Kaur Who Put This Song On? Morgan Parker Parents Name Author Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America Jennifer Harvey So You Want To Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo Movies/TV/Documentaries 0-3 years old (0+) Name Where To Find It Notes Bookmarks Netflix "Sesame Street" - "I Love My Hair" Link "Sesame Street" Town Hall on Racism Link 4-6 years old (4+) Name Where To Find It Notes Arthur - "Arthur Takes A Stand" episode (2nd story in this episode) Link episode begins at 12:30 Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story Link Garrett's Gift Link Hair Love Link The Journey of Henry Box Brown Link March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World Link Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episode tackling racism Link segment begins at 6:44 Motown Magic Link Nella and the Princess Knight Link Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Link 7-9 years old (7+) Name Where To Find It Notes Akeelah and the Bee Link Hale County This Morning, This Evening Link The Princess and the Frog Link Ruby Bridges Link The Wiz (1978) Link 10-12 years old (10+) Name Where To Find It Notes A Ballerina's Tale Link Betty & Coretta Link Hidden Figures Link The Color of Friendship Link The Jackie Robinson Story Link John Lewis: Good Trouble Link To Sleep With Anger Link 13-15 years old (13+) Name Where To Find It Notes 4 Little Girls Link 16 Shots Link Beasts of the Southern Wild Link Becoming Link Belle Link Dispatches From Cleveland Link Harriet Link Hoop Dreams Link I Am Not Your Negro Link Just Mercy Link Lee Daniels' The Butler Link Loving Link Malcolm X Link Selma Link Sounder (1972) Link Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement Link The Central Park Five Link The Color Purple Link The Fits Link The Gabby Douglas Story Link The Great Debaters Link The Hate U Give Link Pride Link The Watsons Go To Birmingham Link The Whole Gritty City Link What Happened, Miss Simone? Link 16-17 years old (16+) Name Where To Find It Notes 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets Link 13th Link American Son Link Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers Link BlacKkKlansman Link Copwatch Link Crime + Punishment Link Dark Girls Link Dear White People Link Do Not Resist Link Do The Right Thing Link Freedom Riders Link Fruitvale Station Link Get Out Link If Beale Street Could Talk Link Insecure Link Kiki Link King in the Wilderness Link LA 92 Link Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 (2017) Link Luke Cage Link Maya Angelou: And I Still Rise Link Moonlight Link Mudbound Link Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Link Quest Link See You Yesterday Link featuring Broadway and Off-Broadway alumni Khail Bryant, Eden Duncan-Smith, and Taliyah Whitaker Strong Island Link The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson Link The Force Link True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality Link When They See Us Link Whose Streets? Link Parents Name Where To Find It Notes 42 Link Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Link Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker Link Seven Seconds Link Theatre 7-9 years old (7+) Name Author Where To Find It The Wiz (2015 version) Smalls and Brown Link 10-12 years old (10+) Name Author Where To Find It Jitney August Wilson Link 13-15 years old (13+) Name Author Where To Find It A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Link A Solider's Play Charles Fuller Link Ain't Too Proud Dominique Morisseau ft. music from The Temptations Link An Octoroon Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Link Behind the Sheet Charly Evon Simpson Link Fences August Wilson Link Hurt Village Katori Hall Link Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage Link Our Lady of Kibeho Katori Hall Link Passing Strange Rodewald and Dorsen Link Pipeline Dominique Morisseau Link Radio Golf August WIlson Link Ruined Lynn Nottage Link Sarafina! Mbongeni Ngema Link Shuffle Along Miller, Lyles, Sissle, and Blake Link Superior Donuts Tracy Letts Link The Light Loy E Webb Link The Mountaintop Katori Hall Link 16-17 years old (16+) Name Author Where To Find It A Strange Loop Michael R. Jackson Link Ain't No Mo' Jordan E. Cooper Link All the Natalie Portmans C.A. Johnson Link An Octoroon Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Link Barbecue Robert O’Hara Link BLKS Aziza Barnes Link Blues for Mister Charlie James Baldwin Link By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Lynn Nottage Link Choir Boy Tarell McCraney Link Clybourne Park Bruce Norris Link Crooked Parts Azure D Osborne-Lee Link Fairview Jackie Sibblies Drury Link Fires in the Mirror Anna Deveare Smith Link For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange Link Girls Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Link Glass Azure D. Osborne-Lee I Know I Know I Know C.A. Johnson Joe Turner's Come and Gone August Wilson Link Kill Move Paradise James Ijames Link Last Night and the Night Before Donnetta Lavinia Grays Link Neighbors Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Link Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu Link Scraps Geraldine Inoa Link Six Degrees of Separation John Guare Link Slave Play Jeremy O. Harris Link Stick Fly Lydia Diamond Link Sugar In Our Wounds Donja R. Love Link The Beasts of Warren Azure D Osborne-Lee The Climb C.A. Johnson The Piano Lesson August Wilson Link The Scottsboro Boys David Thompson; Kander & Ebb Link Thirst C.A. Johnson Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks Link Twilight: Los Angeles Anna Deavere Smith Link War Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Link What to Send Up When It Goes Down Aleshea Harris Link Where We Stand Donnetta Lavinia Grays Link White Noise Suzan-Lori Parks Link Witness Uganda Griffin Matthews Link Yellowman Dael Orlandersmith Link Note: Most of the musicals/plays listed above contain links for where to find them, including links to purchase scripts, view montages, and interviews with the playwright. Lists of more black playwrights: Ten Major African-American Playwrights Queer Black Playwrights to Know and Support Articles/Websites 4-6 years old (4+) Name Link Draw Your Feelings Link Parents Name Link 4 Things We Should All Teach Kids About Racism Right Now Link 006: Wait, is my toddler racist? Link 60+ Resources for Talking to Kids About Racism Link 100 Race-Conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice Link Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race Link Brown Bookshelf - a showcase of books written by black creators Link Fare of the Free Child podcast Link Here's How W. Kamau Bell Talks About Race With His Kids Link How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change Link How to Talk to Your Kids About Injustice, Racism, and Protests Link How to Talk with Kids About Racism and Racial Violence Link How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids Link PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month Link Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism Link Racial Justice Resources for Families Link Raising Equity - an organization that helps parents and educators start age-appropriate conversations surrounding race Link Resources for Discussing Police Violence, Race, and Racism With Students Link Supporting Kids Of Color in The Wake of Racialized Violence Link Talking Race with Young Children Link Talking to Children About Race and Ethnicity Link Talking to children after racial incidents Link Talking to kids about discrimination Link Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice Link Teaching About Race, Racism, and Police Violence Link That Time I Found Media to Help My Kid Embrace His Hair and Teach His Preschool Class to Appreciate Differences Link The Conscious Kid Link What White Children Need to Know About Race Link Mental Health/Self Care 7-9 years old (7+) Name Link Calm Link Three Good Things - A Happiness Journal Link 10-12 years old (10+) Name Link HappiMe for Young People Link Stop, Breathe & Think Link 13-15 years old (13+) Name Link Atlas Co Link Deepstash - Self Improvement Link Mental Health Resources from BuzzFeed Link My3 - Support Network Link 16-17 years old (16+) Name Link 5 mental health resources for Black people Link 8 Mental Health Resources For POC Struggling Right Now Link 10 Virtual Mental-Health Resources That Cater to Black Communities Link 12 Black Mental-Health and Wellness Resources to Follow on Instagram Link 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country Link A List Of Mental Health Resources Available For People Of Color Link Black Lives Matter: 12 self-care tips to protect your mental health during this time Link