A list of resources last updated on 9/23/2020. You can also checkout the sub-collection of resources for Juneteenth 2020.
Where to Start
eResources
RESOURCES ON ANTI-RACISM + BLACK LIVES MATTER
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) gathers information about archival collections held by member organizations that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. The searchable database includes records about collections that were processed or surveyed through the BMRC's Survey Initiative and Color Curtain Processing Project programs, as well as finding aids contributed from our members about relevant materials in their repositories.
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Black Lives Matter Resource and Education Share - Google Document
"Campus Life and Multicultural Affairs have compiled this non-exhaustive collection to provide a list of resources, guides, and education supporting Black Lives Matter. This document is intended to be a starting point, and that the work begins with being informed. Only through using these resources, can we as allies begin to be accountable for our own education, and develop as anti-racist allies."
From Enforcers to Guardians by 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by ART
ADDITIONAL LIBRARY GUIDES + READING LISTS
Physical Resources
While we can't be in the library right now, someday we will be. With that in mind, we are also capturing physical materials for you to explore once it is possible.
BOOKS ON ANTI-RACISM
Antiracism by 
How to Be an Antiracist by 
Activist Scholarship by 
So You Want to Talk about Race by BOOKS ON THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
The Making of Black Lives Matter by 
Making All Black Lives Matter by 
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by 
They Can't Kill Us All by 
When They Call You a Terrorist by 
Unapologetic by ARTISTS' BOOKS + ZINES
FILMS + DOCUMENTARIES
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 a Documentary in 9 Chapters by MORE RECOMMENDED READING
--FICTION--
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by 
The Blacker the Berry ... by 
The Bluest Eye by 
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen by 
Homegoing by 
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by 
Sister Outsider by 
The Street ; The Narrows by 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by --NONFICTION--
Albert Murray by 
The Assassination of Fred Hampton by 
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by 
Baldwin by 
Between the World and Me by 
Black Feminist Thought by 
Black Marxism by 
Black Power by 
Black Skin, White Masks by 
The Condemnation of Blackness by 
Eloquent Rage by 
The Fire Next Time by 
How We Get Free by 
I Am Not Your Negro by 
The Light of Truth by 
Redefining Realness by 
The Souls of Black Folk by 
A Testament of Hope by 
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour by 
W. E. B. du Bois's Data Portraits by 
