Listening & educating ourselves and those around us are the first steps in ending systemic bias and racism. Below are We Speak's recommendations for Anti-bias Education, courtesy of Quincie Zari

Readings

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks

By Donald Bogle

 The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium

By: Kathy Russell Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall

It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?

By Rita Omokha for Elle

White Fragility -Robin DiAngelo

Biased- Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies- Peggy McIntosh 

Documentaries 

Dark Girls: Filmmakers Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry explore a deep-seated bias within black culture against women with darker skin.

13th: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.