Black Lives Matter
Now, more than ever, we need to be there for each other, for our MIT community and the world. The world needs more kindness, more collaboration, more forgiveness, more acceptance, and more understanding.
MIT Community Vigil
1. Books
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) by Bernardine Evaristo
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
2. Articles
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change — Barack Obama
- A Goldman Executive Has Advice for His White Colleagues — Fred Baba '10
- Best practices for offering allyship and support to black coworkers
- How Can I Become a Better White Ally?
3. Take Action
4. Resources for Parents
- NPR: Talking about Race with Young Children
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano PhD
- A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M Holmes , Sasha J Mudlaff
- Daddy Why Am I Brown?": A healthy conversation about skin color and family by Bedford Palmer and Winda Mulyasari
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky