Inclusive Spaces and Resources

The Inclusivity Resource Centers (IRC), managed by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, serves as a vital hub dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive, and affirming environment for students and guests alike. 

Established to facilitate authentic and informed peer dialogue on matters of equity and inclusion, the IRC offers a wide range of resources that include social justice training workshops, equity-themed events, and collaborative initiatives with internal departments and external partners. These efforts aim to bridge gaps between student experiences, needs, and available services. 

IRC Staff

Dr. Sharod Tomlinson
Assistant Vice President for Equity and Inclusion- Student Belonging

Deana Leonce
Coordinator of Resource Centers

Spectrum 

Spectrum strives to strengthen, foster, and affirm an inclusive, welcoming academic and campus environment for all students regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression for the purpose of upholding our University’s Catholic, Vincentian, and Metropolitan mission.

Spectrum fulfills students’ opportunities to further actualize the University’s mission and core values by developing spiritual and personal growth, nurturing awareness and understanding, and embodying the spirit of empathy through a welcoming community that cultivates and reflects the values of human dignity, diversity, compassion, and inclusiveness.

In acknowledging these opportunities, Spectrum sets its foundation upon four pillars: Support, Education, Faith, and Service.

Spectrum Advisors

Sharod Tomlinson Ed.D (he/his)
Assistant Vice President for the Office of Equity and Inclusion-Student Belonging
Sun Yat Sen Memorial Building, Inclusivity Resource Center 
[email protected]
718-990-5530

Candice Roberts Ph.D. (they/them)
Director of LGBTQ+ Center
Associate Professor, Division of Mass Communication
St. John Hall, Room 216
[email protected]
718-990-7983

• Being Antiracist – A resource by the National Museum of African American History and Culture offers an overview of the types of racism that are pervasive in our society, and how we can be effective antiracists. The link provides an extensive list of terminology, videos, readings and more.  
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups – developed by Dr. Craig Elliott  
• What Does it Mean to Be Antiracist? (Handout from Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh)  
• White Supremacy Culture - from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001  
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ)   
• Asian American Christian Collaborative  
• Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP)  
• Embrace Race – Asian Americans, Racism & Antiracism in the COVID Era  
• Embrace Race – COVID Resources that Take Race Seriously   
• Anti-Blackness in Non-Black POC Communities: A guide to starting anti-racist conversations with friends and family.  
• A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions | Kevin Nada

• Academia – Whose Culture Has Capital – A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth by Tara J. Yosso 
• Medium – “Open Question: What is a World Without Whiteness?” by Dr. Vajra Watson (June 1, 2020). 
• Medium – “White Academia: Do Better.” by Jasmine Roberts (June 8, 2020). 
• Psychology Today – “Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life” by Derald Wing Sue (Oct. 5, 2010). 
• Taunya Lovell Banks, Professor of Law, “After Minneapolis,” University of Maryland Carey School of Law (June 1, 2020). 
• The Atlantic – “Racism is Terrible. Blackness is Not” by Imani Perry (June 12, 2020).  
• The Atlantic – “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (June 23, 2014).  
• The Atlantic – “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” By Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (May 12, 2020). 
• The Players’ Tribune - “Privileged” by Kyle Korver (April 8, 2019).  
• The Record Boston University School of Law – “The Fire This Time” by Angela Onwuachi-Willig (June 1, 2020) 
• The New York Times Magazine – The 1619 Project (all articles) by Nikole Hannah-Jones 
• The Undefeated – “Why We Must Talk About the Asian-American Story, Too: Anti-Asian-American racism paints picture of a ‘Model Minority.’” by Brando Simeo Starkey (November 3, 2016). 
• University of Michigan, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: “I Am So Tired” (May 29, 2020). 

Some books may currently be out of stock, we encourage you to consider e-book options: 

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann 
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn  
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks  
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz  
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
• American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera  
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis  
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston  
• Becoming by Michelle Obama  
• Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt  
• Black Appetite White Food by Jamila Lyiscott  
• …But I’m Not Racist by Kathy Obear  
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins  
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon  
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji  
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah  
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine  
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta L. Hammond 
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed a Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller & Kendall Thomas 
• Can We Talk About Race? by Beverly Daniel Tatum 
• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha Series) by Tomi Adeyami  
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler  
• Colorblind Racism by Meghan Burke  
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown  
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Dives and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva  
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper 
• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown  
• Fire Shut up in My Bones by Charles Blow  
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Ya’ll Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin  
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis  
• Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe  
• Home by Toni Morrison  
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 
• How Does it Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi  
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones 
• How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin  
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou  
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown  
• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker  
• Internment by Samira Ahmed 
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison  
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson  
• Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams 
• Linguistic Justice Black Language, Literacy, Identity and Pedagogy by April Baker Bell  
• Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad 
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 
• Native Son by Richard Wright  
• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams  
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a. Degruy  
• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue  
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Carmelita (Rosie) Castañeda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, and Ximena Zúñiga 
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock  
• Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks  
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audra Lorde 
• Slavery by Another Name the Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon  
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi  
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. 
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein  
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin  
• The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Ali Michael, Eddie Moore, Jr. Et.al.  
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee 
• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee  
• The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson 
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois  
• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh 
• The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations by Toni Morrison 
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon 
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell 
• This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston  
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk 
• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour  
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker  
• We Got This. Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor 
• We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 
• When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson  
• White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele  
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise 
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad 
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis 
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum 
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

• ‘1619,’ a A Podcast from the New York Times 
• About Race 
• Code Switch (NPR) 
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé  
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast  
• Pod for the Cause (from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights) 
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)  
• Seeing White 
• Good Ancestor by Layla Saad 
• Small Doses with Amanda Seales

• The Path to Ending Systemic Racism in the U.S. Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero 
• The Urgency of Intersectionality Kimberlé Crenshaw 
• How We Can Make Racism a Solvable Problem – and Improve Policing Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff 
• Racism Has a Cost for Everyone Heather C. McGhee  
• How to Build an Antiracist World Ibram X. Kendi  
• How Racism Makes Us Sick David R. Williams  
• How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time  
• The Danger of a Single Story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• 3 Ways to Speak English Dr. Jamila Lyiscott 
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice  Bryan Stevenson 
• What it Takes to Be Racially Literate Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo  
• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them Vernā Myers 
• Color Blind or Color Brave? Mellody Hobson 
• Courage is Contagious Damon Davis   
• How to Get Serious About Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Janet Stovall  
• My Identity is a Superpower – Not An Obstacle America Ferrera 
• We Need to Address the Real Roots of Racial Violence Megan Ming Francis 

• Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo  
• Why “I’m Not Racist” is Only Half the Story | Robin DiAngelo 
• Systemic racism explained (4-minute animated video) 
• PBS – Bryan Stevenson: How to Change the Culture of Policing (06.02.2020) 
• “We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd” | Patriot Act Digital Exclusive | Netflix (12 min video)  
• Trevor Noah Breaks Down Reparations & White Privilege… (4 min video)  
• Jane Elliott on Her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise” and Fighting Racism (7 min video)  
• Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Anti-Racism Exercise | 1992 Oprah Winfrey Show (32 min video)  
• “The Unequal Opportunity Race” (4 min video)  
• PBS – Black in America Since MLK: And Still I Rise 

Netflix 

• 13th (Ava DuVernay)  
• American Son (Kenny Leon) 
• Dear White People (Justin Simien)  
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) 
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) 
• Seven Seconds (Veena Sud) 
• They’ve Gotta Have Us (Docuseries) 
• Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 
• Who Killed Malcolm X (Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen) 
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Jenner Furst) 
• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) 
• Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (Kasi Lemmons) 
• Becoming (Nadia Hallgren) 
• Teach Us All (Sonia Lowman) 
• Trigger Warning with Killer Mike 
• LA 92 (Daniel Lindsay & T.J. Martin) 
• The Force (Peter Nicks) 
• The Innocence Files (Roger Ross Williams) 

Hulu 

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) 
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr. -- Hulu with Cinemax)  
• Black-ish (Kenya Barris) 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (George C. Wolfe) 
• Whose Streets (Sabaah Folayan) 
• Crime + Punishment (Stephen Maing) 

Amazon Prime/HBO/Rental 

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary directed by Raoul Peck) 
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) free rental for the month of June 2020 
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) 
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution  
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) 
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) 
• Loving (Jeff Nichols) 
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) 
• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 
• Belle (Amma Asante) 
• Black Kkklansman (Spike Lee) 
• Marshall (Reginald Hudlin) 
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL 
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd) 
New York, NY, 10037 
(917) 275-6975 

https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg 

Louis Armstrong House Museum 
34-56 107th Street Corona NY 11368 
(718) 478-8274 
http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/   

Langston Hughes House  
20 E. 127th Street New York, NY 10035 
https://langstonhugheshouse.com/ 

African Burial Ground National Monument  
290 Broadway New York, NY 10007 
(212) 637-2019 
http://www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm   

Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center  
3940 Broadway New York, NY 10032 
http://theshabazzcenter.net/   

Studio Museum in Harlem 
144 W. 125th Street New York, NY 10027 
(212) 864-4500 
http://www.studiomuseum.org/   

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
405 W. 55th Street New York,  NY 10019 
(212) 405-9000 
http://www.alvinailey.org/ 

Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Mother Zion) 
1st African American church 
140-7 West 137th Street New York, NY 10030 
(212) 234-1544  

Weeksville Heritage Center  
1698 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11213 
http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/   

Shirley Chisolm Circle  
900 Prospect Place Brooklyn, NY 11213 
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/brower-park/highlights/19703   

Addisleigh Park Historic District  
110-40 177th Street Jamaica, NY 11433   

Black Spectrum Theatre  
177th Street & Baisley Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11434 
http://www.blackspectrum.com/index.html   

Minton’s  
206 W 118th Street New York, NY 10026 
(212) 243-2222 
https://www.mintonsnyc.com/ 

African American Museum of Nassau County  
110 North Franklin Street Hempstead, NY 11550 
(516) 572-0730 
https://www.jjpaamuseum.org/ 

Fraunces Tavern Museum 
54 Pearl Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 
(212) 425-1778 
https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org 

Apollo Theater 
253 W 125th Street New York, NY 10027 
https://www.apollotheater.org/   

Lewis Latimer House 
34-41 137th Street Flushing, NY 11354 
(718) 961-8585 
https://lewislatimerhouse.org   

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art 
80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn 11217 (Exterior & Lobby Galleries, Central Gallery) 
Nolan Park House 7A, Governors Island NYC 10004 (House) 
(718) 230-0492 x700 
https://mocada.org 

Sandy Ground Historical Society  
1538 Woodrow Road Staten Island, N.Y. 10309 
(718) 317-5796 
https://sandyground.wordpress.com/

St. John’s University Center for Counseling & Consultation Resource List 
 

Below we have outlined resources for identity-based counseling services. Individual therapists have not been vetted and are simply a reference list for those seeking identity-based counseling services from licensed clinicians. 

Therapy for Black Girls  
Therapy for Black Girls is an online space committed to improving the mental health and wellness of Black women and girls. 
https://therapyforblackgirls.com/ 

Psychology Today African American Therapist Directory https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/african-american 

Psychology Today Latinx Therapist Directory  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/hispanic-and-latino 

Therapy for Latinx  
https://www.therapyforlatinx.com 

Psychology Today Asian Therapist Directory 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/asian 

Psychology Today Native & Indigenous Therapist Directory https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/native-american 

Psychology Today Middle Eastern Therapist Directory https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/arabic 

Psychology Today Bi/Multiracial Therapist Directory https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/multicultural/ny/new-york  
 
Psychology Today LGBTQIA+ Therapist Directory  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/gay 

Psychology Today Racial Identity Therapists  
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/racial-identity 

Psychology Today Disability Therapist Directory 
Learning 
Cognitive  

Inclusive Therapist Directory – find a therapist for all identities https://www.inclusivetherapists.com 

National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) 
https://www.nyxt.nyc/naminyc/ 
 
NAMI NYC Metro Support Groups 
https://www.naminycmetro.org/support-groups/ 
 
NAMI Queens/Long Island  
https://namiqn.org 
 
NAMI Brooklyn/Staten Island 
http://www.namistatenisland.org/ 

Ourselves, Black 
Information concerning mental health promotion, positive coping and resources related to mental illness and treatment.  
https://ourselvesblack.com/home 

• The Privilege Institute
• NCORE 
• Social Justice Training Institute 
• NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference (K-12) 
• NAIS People of Color Conference  
• USC Race & Equity Center  
• NASPA’s Multicultural Institute (Post-Secondary) 
• The Ohio State Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity