Learning about Racial Justice & Institutionalized Racism

The resources gathered here are a sample of information that is available for free about racial justice and systemic racism. This page will be updated as availability changes, especially in terms of free steaming media. 

If there is a resource you would like to see highlighted here, please email your suggestions to hnulibrary@hnu.edu.

A number of streaming services are streaming films and documentaries that focus on the Black experience, race, and racial justice for free. Here is a short list of films currently free with links to stream them:

• Selma
• 13th

YouTube is also a resource for free content from streaming services such as Netflix and HBO. The following is also streaming for free on YouTube:

• The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
• Equal Justice Initiative 
  • Criminal Justice Reform
  • Racial Justice
• Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas

[Film/video links and availability last verified April 2022]

Local libraries in our community are great resources of information. They may have eBooks and streaming media that Cushing Library does not hold. Check your local library to see their offerings. 

• Oakland Public Library
• Alameda Free Library
• Berkeley Public Library 
• Northern California Digital Library

This is not an exhaustive list of organizations doing racial justice work. This list serves as a starting point for those interested in learning more about the work being done to promote justice and end systemic racism.

• African American Intellectual History Society's blog Black Perspectives
  • ​Prison Abolition Syllabus
• API Equality - NorCal
• Bay Area Women Against Rape
• Black Lives Matter
• Black Women Radicals
• Black Visions Collective
• Campaign Zero
  • Check the Police Project
• Chinese Progressive Association
• The Center for Cultural Power
• Center for Policing Equity
• Communities for a Better Environment
• Critical Resistance
• Dismantling Racism Works
• Equal Justice Initiative
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
  • Policing Toolkit
• Media Justice
• Media Matters
• Moms 4 Housing
• National Museum of African American History & Culture - Talking About Race
• Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce
• The Opportunity Agenda
  • Police Accountability
• Pacific Center for Human Growth
• Stop AAPI Hate

There are many other organizations putting information together about racial justice and institutionalized racism like this guide. Here are a few guides recommended by library staff:

• Anti-racist Resources: Where do I begin? Library Guide from the University of Denver
• BlackPast online reference center that brings together African American history materials in one place
• Black Women Radical's Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
• Educating Ourselves about Whiteness and Anti-Black Racism Library Guide from St. Mary's College of California
• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus from JSTOR
• Racial Justice Reads from the Online Collection at University of Washington Libraries
• Reading for Racial Justice from the University of Minnesota Press