We are committed to justice and equity, to listening and learning, to action and advocacy, and we know that food justice and health equity are only possible when we achieve racial equity. Therefore, we have comprised a list of educational tools including books we’re reading, podcasts, films and documentaries, and great resources to start the conversation of equity with the kids.
What We're Listening To
Podcasts & Resources to inspire hope and change for our community:
- On Being with Krista Tippett: Trabian Shorters – A Cognitive Skill to Magnify Humanity
- The Ethical Rainmaker: A Podcast about Nonprofits and Philanthropy by Michelle Shireen Muri
Book Club
As part of our commitment to food justice and health equity, we have formed the Olivewood Book Club that will focus on the voices and experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities; food justice and racial equity; and moving education to action.
Book #4:
Book #3:
“Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States” by Seth M. Holmes
Book #2:
“The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming” by Natasha Bowens
Book #1:
“Farming While Black” by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm.
Olivewood's Reading List for Health Equity & Anti-Racism
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
- Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
- A People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn
- How to be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Get Informed
Resources for understanding how systemic inequities came to be and are perpetuated:
Podcasts
- Scene on Radio
- Floodlines via the Atlantic
- Intersectionality Matters! via The African American Policy Forum
- Code Switch
- 1619
- Throughline via NPR
Films
- 13th by Ava DuVernay
- The Central Park Five by Ken Burns
- The Hate U Give by George Tillman Jr.
