FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge Resources

Overviews of Race and Racism

• A 100-Year Review of Research on Black Families: Executive-Summary – Chrishana M. Lloyd, Mavis Sanders, Sara Shaw, et al (article) [added 2026]
• Human Rights Crisis in the United States: White Supremacy’s Comeback Tour – Amnesty International (blog) [added 2026]
• The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear – Shirley Sherrod (book) [added 2026]
• Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement – Bobby J. Smith, II (book) [added 2026]
• Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in the Rural South – Mary D. Coleman (book) [added 2026]
• Race and racism – The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (article) [added 2025]
• Debunking Diversity – MSNBC (20:19 min video) [added 2025]
• Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently – Barbara Holmes (book) [2025]
• Talking about Race – National Museum of African American History & Culture (website) [added 2025]
• Being Antiracist – National Museum of African American History & Culture (web). This link takes you to Teaching and Learning
• Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity (4:13 min video) 
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race – Jay Smooth (12 min TEDX video) 
• I Am Not Your Negro – Official Trailer – James Baldwin (2:16 min video) 
• Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale, American Journal of Public Health (article)
• Race: The Power of an Illusion– Public Broadcast System (website) 
• Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society – john a. powell (book)
• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation – Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rods Owens, Dr. Jasmine Syedullah (book)
• Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation – Beverly Daniel Tatum (book)
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race? – Beverly Daniel Tatum (book) 
• Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why  – Beverly Daniel Tatum (book)
• Moving beyond diversity towards equity – Harvard Business Review (article)
• Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World – john a. powell and Stephen Mendenian (book)
• The Cost of Inheritance – PBS America Reframed (55:23 film)

Systems and Structural Racism

• Justice on the Menu – Change Lab Solutions (report) [added 2025]
• Pathways to a Racially Just Food System: Integrating racial equity in our food justice framework – Change Lab Solutions. (blog) [added 2025]
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Food Justice – American Public Health Association (report) [added 2025]
• If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide – Abolition Journal (web)
• Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why – National Public Radio (article)
• A deeper Challenge of Change: The role of land-grant universities in assessing and ending structural racism in the US food system – Agriculture Sustainability Institute (article)
• The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg – The American Prospect (article)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander (book)
• Zootopia wants to teach kids about prejudice. Is it accidentally sending the wrong message? – VOX Media (movie review)
• Black Parent Voices: Resilience in the Face of the Two Pandemics—COVID-19 and Racism – University of North Carolina Child Development Center (article)

Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat

• Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety and Stereotype Threat in Health Care and Education – R. Godsil, L. Tropp, P. Goff, and ja powell, The Perception Institute, Haas Institute & Center for Policing Equity (report) 
• Belonging: A Culture of Place – bell Hooks (book)
• State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review – Kirwan Institute, Ohio State University (report)
• Survey of Americans on Race, Section 1: Racial Discrimination, Bias, and Privilege – Kaiser Family Foundation (report)
• Uncomfortable Truths: Confronting Racism in America – WNYC Studios (podcast series)
• We All Have Racial Bias – Mamoudou N’Diaye (3:25 min video)
• Position Statement Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education – National Association for the Education of Young Children (report)
• Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms Book – Iheoma Iruka, Stephanie Curenton, and Tonia Durden (book) 
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People – Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald (book)
• The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams – Pamela Fuller (book) 

Whiteness and White Privilege

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson (book) [2026]
• Understanding White Privilege – Arlin Cuncic, Race and Social Justice (article) [added 2025]
• The case for interpersonal reparations – Aaron Goggins, Fellowship Magazine (article)
• Good Ancestor Podcast-Layla Saad (podcast series)
• 18 Things White People Should Know/Do Before Discussing Racism – Billy Antoinio, The Frisky (article)
• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston – Jon Greenberg, Citizenship and Social Justice (curriculum materials)
• Dear White America – George Yancy, New York Times (Op-Ed)
• DeRay Mckesson Helps Stephen Colbert Address His Privilege – The Colbert Show (8:18 min video)
• Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person – Gina Crosley Corcoran, Huffington Post (blog)
• How White People Got Made – Quinn Norton, The Message
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America – Michael Eric Dyson, Philadelphia Free Library (102 min video)
• Waking Up White – Debby Irving (book)
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son – Tim Wise, Soft Skull Books (book) 
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack – Peggy McIntosh (article)
• Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems – Duke Sanford/World Food Policy Center (report)
• What is White Privilege, Really? – Cory Collins, Learning for Justice (article)
• Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice: 15 Stories – Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., Dr. Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Dr. Ali Michale (book)

Food Systems Specific

• Food Justice – Food Print (article) [added 2026]
• Food Forests are Bringing Shade and Sustenance to US Cities, One Parcel of Land at a Time – Planetary Press (blog) [added 2026]
• From the Past to the Future – Jen Aston and Daniel Moss, Stanford Social Innovation Review (blog) [added 2025]
• Sharing Meals  – Nessa Richman, Stanford Social Innovation Review (article) [added 2025]
• Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Beloved Community – Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman, Open Studios Production (1.48 min trailer; short 22 min documentary and additional educational materials)
• An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System – Rachel Kelly, Rich Pirog, and Kimberly Carr, Center for Regional Food Systems, Michigan State University (annotated bibliography) 
• Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000: The Pursuit of Independent Farming and the Role of Cooperatives – Bruce J. Reynolds (report)  
• Black Farmers Reviving Their African Roots: “We Are Feeding Our Liberation” – Kevon Paynter, Yes Magazine (article)
• USDA – National Agricultural Statistics Service – Census of Agriculture
• Commentaries on Race and Ethnicity in Food Systems – Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (articles)
• Cultivating Equality: Delivering Just and Sustainable Food Systems in a Changing Climate – Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (report)
• Race Forward Annual Report  2022-2023, 
• Growing Justice: Transcending racism in the food system – Michelle Stern, The Next Systems Project, The Democracy Project (article)
• A More Abundant Share – The Future Of Food Is Black – Shakirah Simley, HuffPost (article)
• Race and Food are Intertwined. Here’s How We Can Do Better – Hannah Wallace, Civil Eats (article)
• Racial Equity in the Farm Bill: Recommendations and Opportunities – Noah McDonald, Intern, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (blog post series)
• Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access  – Eileen Schell, Porio Journal, Syracuse University (article)
• Reparations and Rematriation for Black-Indigenous Farmers – New England Farmers of Color Land Trust (map)
• Reveal: Losing Ground – Reveal news (53 min podcast)
• Tangled Roots and Bitter Fruit: What Ferguson can teach the food movement – Eric Holt-Giménez, FoodFirst (blog)
• The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System – Hosselin Ayaz and Elsadig Elsheikh, Othering & Belonging (report)
• What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement – Beatriz Beckford, WHY Hunger (journal series)
• What is the Color of the New Economy? And Why It Matters – pennloh, Practical Visionaries (article)
• The White Lies of Craft Culture – Lauren Michele Jackson, Eater (article)
• Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Grocery Stores? – Tom Perkins, Civil Eats (article)
• Why We Can’t Talk About Race in Food – Shakirah Simley, Stephen Satterfield, Dakota Kim, and Tunde Wey, Civil Eats (article)
• Young Farmers Racial Equity Toolkit – The National Young Farmers Coalition (website)
• African American Land Ownership And Black Wealth – Ana Mosioa-Tunya, Global Black History (article)
• America is a factory farming nation: key takeaways from US agriculture census – The Guardian (article)
• United States Department of Agriculture – USDA (official website)
• USDA, Food and Nutrition Service (website)
• Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at a ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? – The Conversation (article)

Food Systems: Focus on Food Security, Hunger, and Nutrition

• The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We  Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again – Mariana Chilton (book) [added 2026
• Safe access to food is a fundamental right: ICE tactics erode our basic freedoms – Right to Food Community of Practice (blog) [added 2026]
• Why Hunger Calls for an End to ICE Enforcement Devastating Communities and Deepening Hunger – Jenique Jones (blog) [added 2026]
• Food Insecurity Hits Black Communities Harder – Feeding America (blog) [added 2026] 
• Just the Facts: Hunger and Poverty in the United States and Globally – Why Hunger (article) [added 2026]
• Karen A. Spiller, Food Solutions New England, Testifies about the Right to Food at the UN blog) [added 2026]
• USDA Household Food Security in the United States in 2024 – Matthew P. Rabbit, Madeline Reed Jones, Laura J Hales, Shellye Suttles, and Michael P. Burke (report) [added 2026]
• Statistical Supplement USDA Household Food Security in the United States in 2024 – Matthew P. Rabbit, Madeline Reed Jones, Laura J Hales, Shellye Suttes, and Michael P Burke (report) [added 2026] 
• Hunger in the US – Bread for the World (website) [added 2025]
• The Reach of School Breakfast and Lunch – Food Research & Action Center (report)
• Black Food Matters: Race and Equity in the Good Food Movement  – Devita Davison, Food Lab Detroit (13.03 min video)
• Food Deserts and the Politics of Food Insecurity: Structures and Sustainability – Angela Odoms-Young (14.07 min video)
• Food + Justice = Democracy: Ladonna Redmond, TEDx Manhattan (12:10 min video)
• Food Justice Voices: A Farmer Like Me: Exploring Hunger, Race and Farming in America – Lorrie Clevenger, Why Hunger (interview)
• A Food Relief Charter for South Australia-Towards a Shared Vision for Pathways Out of Food Insecurity – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (article)
• Hunger and Food Insecurity – Foodprint (article)

Climate Change, Race, and Food Systems

• Gender and the Climate Crisis: Equitable Solutions for Climate Plans – Center for Biological Diversity (report) [added 2026]
• What are the Effects of Climate Change? – National Resource Defence Council (report) [added 2026]
• Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World – Elizabeth Sawin (book) [added 2026]
• How Climate Change Interacts with Inequity to Affect Nutrition – Leah Salm, Nicholas Nisbett, Laura Cramer, Stuart Gillespie, and Philip Thompson (article) [added 2026]
• The Climate Gap and the Color Line — Racial Health Inequities and Climate Change – Rachel Morello-French and Osagie Obasogie (article) added 2026 
• Just Faith Sacred Land: Food and Farming (website) [added 2026]
• Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice – Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam, Sonora English, Jason Hickel, et al (article) [added 2026]
• Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States – Alique Berberian, David Gonzalez, and Lara Cushing (article) [added 2026]
• Drawn to Change the World Graphic Novel Collection: 16 Youth Climate Activists, 16 Artists: A Graphic Novel – Emma Reynolds (book) [added 2026]

For Conversations with Children

• Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults – Robin Wall Kimmerer, adapted by Monique Gray Smith (book) [added 2026]
• Hidden Figures (movie 2 hr 7 min) [added 2026]
• Daughter of the Trees: Walking in the Wood with Sojourner Truth – Rev Dele (book) [2026]
• Chocolate Me – Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans (2 min video)
• The Colors of Us – Karen Katz (book)
• EmbraceRace (website/online community)
• Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez – Kathleen Krull (book)
• Let’s Talk about Race – Julius Lester (book)
• A Letter to My Son – Ta-Nehisi Coates (article)
• Raising Race-Conscious Children: How to Talk to Kids About Race and Racism –  Beata Mostafavi, Michigan Medicine.org
• The Skin You Live In – Michael Taylor (book)
• Learning for Justice Classroom Resources – Southern Poverty Law Center (website)
• Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk? – Beverly Daniel Tatum (video) 
• Framing Racial Equity in Adolescence: Messaging Strategies for Social Change – Frameworks Institute (article) 
• NY Times Resources for Teaching About Race and Racism – Nicole Daniels, Michael Gonchar, and Natalie Proulx (article) 
• Ours – Ruth Forman (book) 
• Zora’s Garden – Rae Chesney (book) 
• Corduroy – Don Freeman (book)
• The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys – Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., Dr. Ali Micheal, and Dr. Marguerite W. Penicks- Park (book)
• Little E; The Big Misunderstanding – Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr (book)
• Color-Brave: An Early Childhood Learning Community of/for Adults Nurturing Resistance & Joy in BIPOC Children – EmbraceRace (website)

Food and Faith

• Theology on the Menu: Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet – David Grummet and Rachel Muers (book) [added 2026]
• Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology – Jennifer Ayers (book) [added 2026]
• Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating – Norman Wirzba (book) [added 2026]
• Faith in Food – Susie Weldon and Sue Campbell (book) [added 2026]
• The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist – Angel Méndez-Montoya, (book) [added 2026]
• The Meal That Reconnects: Eucharistic Eating and the Global Food Crisis – Mary McGann (book) [added 2026]
• Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith  – Fred Bahnson (book)[added 2026]
• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible – Ellen F. Davis, foreword Wendell Berry (book) [added 2026]
• Food from the Radical Center – Gary Paul Nabhan (book) [added 2026]
• Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics – Todd Levasseur, Pramod Parajuli, and Norman Wirzba (book) [added 2026]
• Mindful Eating for the Beloved Community (website) [added 2026]
• Creation, Food, Land: Biblical Faith, Current Crisis, Wycliffe College (syllabus) [added 2026]
• How to Eat” Mindfulness Essentials #2 – Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist) (book) [added 2026]

Tools to Implement

• City Playbook-Preparing for the Impacts of H.R. 1/OBBA on Food Security and Local Economies – Food Research & Action Center (report) [added 2026]
• Racial Justice Community of Practice – Interactive Institute for Social Change (IISC) [added 2025]
• The Practitioner Landscape: How Faith Communities Are Involved in Food Systems Work – Duke Food World Policy Center 
• Curriculum – Othering & Belonging Institute
• Code Switch Listening Party Kit – Interaction Institute for Social Change
• Confronting Racial Bias at Work – Race Forward (podcasts)
• The 4th Box Sparks Imagination – Interaction Institute for Social Change (blog)
• Implicit Association Test – Project Implicit (website)
• Race, Equity and Inclusion Guide; Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization – The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit – Race Forward
• Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues, City of Seattle – Race & Social Justice Initiative
• Ten Lessons for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racial Justice – The Opportunity Initiative
• Map the Meal Gap – Feeding America Hunger Map (website)
• Our Fight for Climate Justice – Racial Equity Tools (article) 
• Resources – Cause Strategy Partners (website)
• Black Wealth Indicators – Black Wealth Data Center (website)
• White People Challenging Racism: Moving from Talk to Action – White People Challenging Racism (website)
• How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace – Harvard Business Review (article)
• 10 Effective ways to promote equity in the workplace – Recruitee (blog)
• Tool for Organizational Self Assessment Related to Racial Equity 2014 – Coalition for Communities of Color (website)

Love, Healing, and Health

• Anger: Wisdom for cooling the flames – Thich Nhat Hanh (book) [added 2026]
• The Book of Joy: Lasting happiness in a changing world – The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (book) [added 2026]
• Coming Back to Life: The updated guide for the work that reconnects –  Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown (book) [added 2026]
• The Creative Fire: Myths and stories about the cycle of creativity – Clarissa Pinkola Estes (book) [added 2026]
• Falling Upward: A spirituality for the two halves of life – Richard Rohr (book)[added 2026]
• The Four Agreements, A Toltec Wisdom Book – Don Miguel Ruiz (book) [added 2026]
• The Future of Humanity: Two dialogues between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm – J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm (foreword) (book) [added 2026]
• Meditations of the Heart – Howard Thurman (book) [added 2026]
• The Moral Imagination: The art and soul of building peace – John Paul Lederach (book)
• The Power of Bridging: How to build a world where we all belong – john a. powell (book)
• Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, magic and initiation the life of an African shaman – Malidoma Patrice Some (book) [added 2026]
• See No Stranger: A memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love – Valarie Kaur (book)
• Spirit Wheel: Meditations from an Indigenous elder – Steven Charleston (book) [added 2026]
• Tao Te Ching: A book about The Way and the power of The Way – Lao Tzu (translated by Ursula K. LeGuin) (book) [added 2026]
• Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted living in a brokenhearted world – Pema Chodron (book) [added 2026]
• Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes From Spirit – Richard Wagamese (book)
• The Light Game – Mary Colborn (book) [added 2026]
• What is Racial Equity? American Public Health Association (factsheet) [added 2025]
• The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Inequities in the US  – Thomas A. LaVeist, Elisseo Perez-Stable, Patrick Richard, et al JAMA Network (article) [added 2025]
• Justice, Love, and Organizational Healing: A Guide to Transformational Consulting – Ora C.Grodsky (book) [added 2025]
• All about Love – bell Hooks (book) [added 2025]
• My Sword is a Dove – Isobel Davis (book) [added 2025]
• Loving Connections – Adrienne Maree Brown (book) [added 2025]
• One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies of a Planet – Richard Wagamese (book) {added 2025]
• Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World – Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown (book) [2025]
• The Democracy of Species – Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (podcast/transcript] 
• Children and their caregivers in low-opportunity neighborhoods face increased risk of early death – Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health (newsbrief)
• A Poem in Three Parts: Meet me There (Part Three) – Othering & Belonging Institute (video)
• Center for the Healing of Racism (website)
• Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teaching of the Seventh Fire – Gregory A. Cajete (book)
• Emotional Justice: A Road Map for Racial Healing – Esther Armah (book)
• Esther Armah: Emotional Justice – (3:57 min video)

Some Organizations and Sites to Check Out

• Stories of Food + Faith [added 2026]
• ChangeLab Solutions [added 2026]
• Best social justice and equity conferences in 2018 – Beneficial State Foundation
• About Us – Black Families Flourishing -Child Trends and BFF
• The Greenlining Institute
• Catalyst Project
• Minority Health – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  
• Color of Change 
• Colorlines 
• Economic Policy Institute
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Government Alliance on Race and Equity
• Othering & Belonging Institute
• Interaction Institute for Social Change 
• National Equity Atlas 
• National Right to Food Community of Practice
• The Good Information Foundation 
• The Opportunity Agenda 
• Undoing Racism People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
• PolicyLink
• Race Forward
• Racial Equity Tools – Equity in the Center
• Soul Fire Farm
• White Privilege Conference – The Privilege Institute
• Why Hunger
• Social Justice & Equity Movement Building – World Trust
• Coalition on Human Needs
• Courageous Conversation
• Food Research Action Center (FRAC) 
• Learning for Justice – Southern Poverty Law Center

Action and Engagement Ideas

• This can be the hardest part, especially for people new to racial justice work. Engaging in racially mixed settings can trigger age-old power and privilege dynamics. The goal is to enter the process to learn and bridge knowledge gaps, not to take over, lead, and impose solutions.
• Stay engaged even when your mind and body start sending you signals to shrink or walk away.
• Ask clarifying questions.
• Acknowledge what you don’t know.
• Join with many other organizations and individuals to show support and demand racial justice and equity for all. Learn more about Hands Off! and the many organizations involved in these community-building movements [added 2025]
• Journal to process emotions such as shame and anger that can guide you to deeper self-awareness about how power and privilege impact you.
• Find a mentor within your own racial group to support and guide your growth.
• Take a course or workshop. Connect with organizations listed above and see what opportunities they offer. The network of people you discover may point you to a class, or finding a class first may point you to a network.
• Call your local representatives and congresspeople and share your concerns about racial injustices. Learn about and support policies put forward by The Movement for Black Lives.
• Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes and racist comments. Click here for some advice about how.
• Organize a film night or book group with family, friends, colleagues, or neighbors to learn and discuss together the dynamics and realities of privilege and power.
• Attend an event in your area where issues of power and privilege are being addressed. Universities and bookstores often host speakers who draw the network you’ll want to plug into to keep engaged and motivated.
• Join the Poor People’s Campaign to learn more and take action on poverty and its call for moral revival.