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In light of the protests following the death of George Floyd, the staff at the Wayland Free Public Library encourages those who want to learn more about the racial climate in the US and how we got here to explore the following resources.

WFPL Black Lives Matters Statement

We will continue to add to and update these resources. Please check back often and/or suggest any additions you may have.

For Adults and Older Teens

For Kids and Families


For Adults and Older Teens

Books, eBooks and digital Audiobooks

March by John Lewis

Documentaries available on Kanopy

Eyes On The Prize How it Feels I am Not your Negro
Cruel and Unusual Race: The Power of an Illusion And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK Look Away, Look Away
More

 Social Justice Library Program Recordings

Let's Talk About Race and Equity in the Suburbs with Rebecca Smoler Vital.Vibrant.Visible Curator/Photographer Talk How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race with Kwame Christian Race, Monuments and Memory Panel
Sybrina Fulton: Cultivating Justice toward Racial Equality Phebey's Bill of Sale The History of Juneteenth
More

Discussion and Self-Study Guides

 

Boston Globe Spotlight: Boston.Racism.Image.Reality, December 2017

Trailer on YouTube for the series


For Kids and Families

Books on race and racism

Click to search the catalog for Let's Talk About Race. Click to search the catalog for Can I Touch Your Hair? Click to search the catalog for The Skin You Live In. Click to search the catalog for We're Different, We're the Same.

Anti-racism for all ages

Click to search the catalog for Antiracist Baby. Click to search the catalog for Stamped. Click to search the catalog for This Book is Anti-Racist. Click to search the catalog for We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices.

Books celebrating Black joy and pride

Click to search the catalog for Black Girl Magic. Click to search the catalog for Chocolate Me! Click to search for The Crossover in the library catalog. Click to search the catalog for Crown.
Click to search the catalog for Hey Black Child. Click to search the catalog for I Believe I can. Click to search the catalog for I Love My Hair! Click to search the catalog for M is For Melanin.

Click to search the catalog for Magnificent Homespun Brown.

Click to search the catalog for New Kid. Click to search the catalog for Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy. Click to search the catalog for The Undefeated.

Books discussing race and police violence

Click to search the catalog for Something Happened in Our Town. Click to search the catalog for Not My Idea. Click to search the catalog for Ghost Boys. Click to search the catalog for A Good Kind of Trouble.

Books about historic African-American Civil Rights events

Click to search the catalog for The First Step.

Click to search the catalog for Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer.

Click to search the catalog for We March.

Click to search the catalog for The Youngest Marcher.