If we’ve learned anything thus far in life, it is to never stop learning. Never stop learning how to do, to be, to feel, to think, to act, and to teach.
While it is vastly important for us as adults and parents to teach and guide our children to be kind, inclusive, respectful, and empathetic citizens, it is also incredibly important for us to take a look in the mirror and within to ensure we are inclusive, kind, respectful, and empathetic citizens.
This resource was compiled to help us help our children and ourselves to finds ways to educate, learn, listen, and grow as citizens of earth, brothers and sisters to all.
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29 Books and Activities That Teach Kindness to Children
5 Books That Teach Your Kids About Amazing Women in Black History
10 Picture Books with Main Characters of Color
A Mighty Girl Civil Rights Book List
A Mighty Girl African American History Book List
All The Colors Of The Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
All Are Welcome Here by Alexandra Penfold
Black Girl Magic Literary Magazine
Celebrate! Our Differences by Sophia Day & Megan Johnson
Children’s Books by Black Women
Children Around the World Paperback by Donata Montanari
Colorful Pages: Multicultural Books and Lessons for Every Student
The Conscious Kid Book subscriptions and reading list
I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism by Pat Thomas
Intersection Allies: We Make Room For All by Carolyn Choi and Chelsea Johnson
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
Know Me for My Ability Not My Disability: Jack and George’s Story of Inclusion
Let The Sad Thoughts Out: A Picture Book to Help With Kids Mental Health by Chris Stead
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – Maya Angelou
Little People, Big Dreams Series
Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
No White Saviors: Kids Books About Black Women in US History
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
Raising Luminaries: Igniting the Kind & Brilliant Leaders of Tomorrow (book collections)
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Suki’s Kimono by Chieri Uegaki & Stephane Jorisch
The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Weatherford
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World by Matt Lamothe
Yes I Can!: A Girl and Her Wheelchair
We’re Different, We’re the Same By Bobbi Kates
What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine & Cynthia Pon
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential–and Endangered
Black Feminist Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement
(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health
How to be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill
The Life We Never Expected: Hopeful Reflections on the Challenges of Parenting Children with Special Needs
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century – Grace Lee Boggs
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
Redefining Realness – Janet Mock
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin Diangelo
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White by Daniel Hill and Brenda Salter McNeil
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Sone – Tim Wise
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
Antiracist Research and Policy Center
Black Lives Matter at School: Teaching Materials
Black Women’s Blueprint: Cultural Competence
Education Through Conversation
Everyday Feminsm: School for Social Justice
National Museum of African America History and Culture – Talking About Race Web Portal
Ororo’s Four Disciplines of an Anti-Racist
Ted Talks to Help You Understand Race in America
The Conscious Kid: Critical Conversations
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
11 Fearless Black Women Your Kids Should Know
11 Ways for Teaching Kids to Be Inclusive of Others
13 Tips on How to Talk to Children About Diversity and Difference
13 Ways to Raise a Compassionate Child Online and Off
14 Little Ways to Encourage Kindness
3 Simple Ways to Teach Kids to Have Empathy For Others
40 Kindness Activities & Empathy Worksheets for Students and Adults
Don’t Let Your Kid be a Bully. 6 Ways to Teach Kindness.
Empathy – a practice to connect across cultures
How to Teach Children About Disabilities and Inclusion
Key Strategies to Teach Children Empathy (Sorted by Age)
Preparing Young Children for the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities into the Classroom
Raising Race Conscious Children
Resources for Talking to Your Kids About Race
Teaching Your Kids About Diversity and Inclusion
The Relationship You Have With Yourself Defines the Relationship You Have With Your Child
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Why It’s Important to Nurture Empathy in Kids
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a government agency that protects equal access to schools, health services, and other areas. OCR investigates complaints of discrimination based on race, color, national origin, disability, age sex, and religion. If you or your child experience discrimination from a government entity (such as a school) or health care provider, you can file a complaint and get assistance. For more information on OCR, what they do, and how to file a complaint, visit their webpage.
ScienceDaily – Mental Health Daily
American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
League of United Latin American Citizens
Mental Disability Advocacy Center
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Council of Negro Women
National Disability Rights Network
American Association of People with Disabilities
National Immigration Project
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
Sunshine Behavioral Health – Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod for the Cause – Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
Pod Save the People – Crooked Media
The Science of Happiness
You, Me, Empathy: Sharing Our Mental Health Stories
5 Ways White People Can Take Action
75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
A Guide to How You Can Support Marginalized Communities
A Timeline of Events that Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’ Rising
Dear White People: This Is What We Want You to Do
How to be a Better White Person in 2020
Intent vs Impact: Why Your Intentions Don’t Really Matter
Protest, Uprising, and Race War
Receiving Feedback & Responding
There is No Neutral – Jen Hatmaker
When the Protests Aren’t Peaceful: Police Brutality During Demonstrations
13th
American Son
Clemency
Dear White People
Detroit
Freedom Writers
Good Trouble
If Beale Street Could Talk
Insecure
Just Mercy
Malcolm X
See You Yesterday
Selma
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
The Hate U Give
When They See Us