The conversation about race needs to start early and keep happening.
As protests over the killing of George Floyd (and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor) spill into a second week, many parents are wondering how to talk about the deaths and unrest with their children. But just as important in the long run, especially for nonblack parents, is how to keep the conversation about race and racism going when we’re not in a moment of national outrage, and to make sure all children see black people as heroes in a wide range of their own stories, and not just as victims of oppression.
Here’s a list of books by NY Times:
- “The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences”
- “Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice”
- “The Lost Tribes Series“
- “Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions”
- Ezra Jack Keats’s books about Peter (“The Snowy Day,” “A Letter to Amy,” “Hi, Cat!,” “Whistle for Willie”)
- “We Love You, Charlie Freeman”
- “Saturday”
- “Last Stop on Market Street”
- “Hair Love”
- “Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea”
- “Each Kindness”
- “The Youngest Marcher”
- “Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice”
- “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness”
- “All American Boys”
- “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You”
Read the complete story at nytimes.com
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