Media Suggestions

Books

  • "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "The Shame of the Nation" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "Rachel and Her Children" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz

  • "The Corner" by David Simon

  • "Evicted, Matthew" by Desmond

  • "Another Place at the Table" by Kathy Harrison

  • “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant” by Daniel Tammet

  • “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband” by David Finch

  • “Three Little Words: A Memoir” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

  • “Family Skeleton: A Brother and Sister's Journey from Murder to Truth” by Andre Carmichael, Aurora Mackey and Sabrina Carmichael Yaw

  • “Far From the Tree” by Robin Benway

  • “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate

  • “A Beautiful Boy” by David Sheff

  • “Tweak: Growing Up on Amphetamines” by Nic Sheff

  • “Random Family” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

  • “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

  • “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko

  • “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon

  • “A Chance in the World” by Steve Pemberton

  • “No Ego” by Cy Wakeman

  • “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater

  • “Beyond Magenta” by Susan Kuklin

  • “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore

  • “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

  • “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander

  • “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • “The Beautiful Struggle” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown

  • “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem

  • “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo

  • “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • “Small Great Things” by Jodi Picoult

  • “The Deepest Well” by Nadine Burke Harris

  • “Men We Raped” by Jesmyn Ward

Movies & TV

  • “Maid,” 2021

  • "Paper Tigers," 2015

  • "13th," 2016

  • "ReMoved," 2013

  • “Instant Family,” 2018

  • “Foster”, HBO Documentary, 2019

  • “Dawnland,” 2018

  • “Broken Places,” 2018

Podcasts

  • This American Life, "Three Miles"

  • NPR’s Fresh Air, “Never Enough”

  • NPR’s Fresh Air, “The Neuroscience of Addiction”

  • NPR, The Connection Between Early Childhood Experiences and Long Term Health

  • NPR, Adverse Childhood Experience Study

  • NPR, How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Health