Justice & Equity Resources
These are some of the resources that the staff of the Memorial Fund have found to be instructive as the organization shifted toward an equity focused mission that is explicit about the impact of racism and poverty on education. Many of the resources listed below were used in our Justice Literacy program.
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- The War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis
- Rac(e)ing to Class by H. Richard Milner and Tyrone C. Howard
- White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney Lopez
- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
- Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present by Dixa Ramirez
“Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Complicating White Privilege: Poverty, Class, and the Nature of the Knapsack,” by Paul Gorski
Poverty and Race through A Belongingness Lens, by john a. Powell
Black Panthers breakfast program by Andrea King Collier
My "stinky" lunch, which taught me a hard lesson about life in a America by Marcelle Hutchins
Hedge Funds Not Led by White Men Outperform Nearly 2 to 1 by Jeff Green
Black and Brown People Are Slaying the Hedge Fund World by CultureBanx
"Coronavirus Capitalism": Naomi Klein's Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronovirus Epidemic by Amy Goodman for Democracy Now
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Whose Streets by by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
The Shock Doctrine Documentary by Naomi Klein
Nice White Parents, a five part series by The New York Times, hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt
The Education Project, a six part series by The Table Underground
- Organizing for Freedom
- Nurturing All Children
- The True History and Foods of Thanksgiving
- Transforming Teacher Education for Racial Justice
- Punishment & Racial Bias in Schools: One Mom’s Story of Fighting for Her Son’s Rights and Education
- Greg Smith Finds His Way Through Food
“Why do we keep insisting that education can solve poverty?” by Jennifer Berkshire
- Rise and Fail of the N Word by Rhinold Ponder
Adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth - Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years by Emily Mann, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delaney and A. Elizabeth Delaney
- A Lesson From Aloes by Athol Fugard
- WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharaoh
- Detroit '67 by Dominique Morisseau
- The Scottsboro Boys (Book by David Thompson, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb)