Racial Justice - Warm Springs Alliance

There’s always something you can do to make a difference and now’s the time to be all in. The Warm Springs Alliance is committed to creating true community and building a world that works for everyone, along with making a truly inclusive gathering place at Warm Springs in Salt Lake City.

This compilation of resources is intended to grow and evolve to include social justice of all kinds, and in this moment is focused on black lives. Deep gratitude to all the people and organizations who have created the resources you see here.

We hope you use these intensely, often and for as long as it takes to right the wrongs, and then some. Please suggest more resources you find useful.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
– Arthur Ashe

LISTEN

Audiobooks/Radio

Audible Antiracism Listening List
RadioWest: Mormonism And White Supremacy

Podcasts

1619 by The New York Times
Code Sw!tch
More Beautiful and More Terrible
The Spiritual Work of Black Lives Matter
Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence
Hidden Brain: In the Air We Breathe
Pod Save the People
The Diversity Gap
Momentum A Race Forward
Intersectionality Matters
Stuff You Should Know
Seeing White
The White Ally Toolkit
Talking About Whiteness
9 Podcasts that Don’t Whitewash Race

READ

Books

The Myth of Race – Robert Wald Sussman
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

More reading lists:
Bookshop Antiracism Reading List
Antiracism Reading list by Ibram X. Kendi
Antiracist Reading list in several categories by Victoria Alexander
Elle Anti-Racist Reading List
Free Black History Library

Children’s Black Lives Matter Library
Diverse Books for Children

Articles

How Race Was Made
Racism Defined
Racial Justice Research by Rachel Cargle
20 Questions for Those Who Deny Systemic Racism

The Case for Reparations
Making Space for Restorative Justice
The emotional impact of watching white people wake up to racism

We Won’t Stop Until We Dismantle the Whole Racist System
Don’t understand the protests?
An Uprising Was Inevitable
What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots
There’s No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest
Conflicted about the protests?

Introduction to Police Brutality
The racist roots of American Policing
Fact based info on police brutality
Police in Norway Haven’t Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
We won’t let this moment be a trend
Reflections from a Token Black Friend

What about “All Lives Matter”?
“All Lives Matter”, Illustrated
Here’s Why It Hurts When People Say, “All Lives Matter”

White Fragility: Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about race
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
White Supremacy Culture
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
My White Friend Asked to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest

How to be an ally?
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
Checklist for white allies against racism
There’s No Such Thing as a White Ally
Don’t Be an Ally, Be an Accomplice

What is Microaggression?
Recognizing Microaggressions
What it’s like to be black in a white state like Utah

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
Who’s responsible for racism?
Protest Etiquette for White Folx

Dear White Feminists, We Can Do Better
How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism

COURSES

Time to Step Up: An Antiracism Summer Course for White People
Free Racialized Trauma 5-Day eCourse
Community Village Webinars
The Great Unlearn
Hard Conversations: An Introduction to Racism and it’s Undoing

Check Your Privilege
Unity Over Comfort
White People 4 Black Lives
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present

More Resource Lists

Antiracism resources by by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein
Good Good Good Antiracism Resources
Greater Good Antiracism Resources

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Playbill Black Lives Matter Resources
Songs of Black Lives Matter: 22 New Protest Anthems
Anti-racism education resources
Black History, Culture, Inventions and More

Resources for Parents
Parent’s Guide to Black Lives Matter