Racial Justice Resources
- Local Data & Conversation Starters
- Books, Articles & Websites
- Podcasts, Videos & Documentaries
- Toolkits & Assessments
County Profile
Health
Education
Toledo Public School District Report Card
Article on Preschool Expulsion Rates
Article comparing fictitious school districts
Perrysburg School District Report Card
Housing
Analysis to Impediments Part 1
Analysis to Impediments Part 2
Conversation Starters
Books
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
- Waking Up White, Debby Irving
- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, Gretchen Sorin
- Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
- Race Matters, Cornell West
- Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America, F. Michael Higginbotham
- The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry, Jack Levin, Jim Nolan
Textbooks
- Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 6th Edition, Ashley Montagu
- Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions, Joshua L. Miller, Ann Marie Garran
- Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader, Routledge Student Readers, Les Back, John Solomos, Editors
- Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
- Diversity Conversations, Eric Ellis
- In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Book Lists
Websites
- The Power of Illusion
- Systemic Inequality
- Racial Economic Inequality
- Teaching Tolerance – Resources for Educators
Articles
- Ibram X. Kendi article on why love and education won’t solve racism
- A Conversation with White People on Race
- GI Bill and racism
- School to Prison Pipeline
- The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools
- Six Truths About Racism That White Teachers Must Know
- Prison Reform
- Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization
Podcasts
Videos
- Slavery to Mass Incarceration
- Allegories on race and racism
- Adam Foss: A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system
- Eye of the Storm
- Ending Racism Webinar
- The Doll Test
Documentaries
- 13th
- When they See Us