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Songs for Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

Songs that Encourage Justice, Teach Acceptance and Promote Anti-Racism
Anti-Racism Songs

"We all know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color." - Maya Angelou

Full Albums
All One Tribe (full album) – One Tribe Collective
HerStory: A Celebration of Women's Suffrage (full album) – Earth Mama
I'm Gonna Let It Shine (full album)  – Bill Harley
The Love (full album) –Alphabet Rockers
The Movement (full album) –Alphabet Rockers
Rise, Shine, #Woke (full album) –Alphabet Rockers

These song lyrics about diversity are available from a variety of albums:

Songs Promoting Racial Justice & Pride
Addition – City Love
All One Tribe – 1 Tribe Collective
Asikatali - Children of Africa – Traditional Folk Song
Beautiful Brown Babies –Kymberly Stewart - 1 Tribe Collective
Black Gxrl Magic –Alphabet Rockers
Brown Boy Brown Girl –Kymberly Stewart
The Change Up – Alphabet Rockers
Colours – Claudia Robin Gunn feat. Little Miss Ann & Suzi Shelton
Culture Everyday – Culture Queen
Different (Interlude)  – Alphabet Rockers
Don't Wait  – Alphabet Rockers
Do You Know My Power? – Alphabet Rockers
Follow the Drinking Gourd  – Songs for Teachers
Games – Alphabet Rockers
Get on Board Little Children  – Tickle Tune Typhoon
Gimme Some Skin – Alphabet Rockers
Had To Stand Up  – Ants on a Log
I Am the Future of Black History – Culture Queen
I Like The Me I See – Culture Queen
I Love My History – Culture Queen
I'm Proud  – Alphabet Rockers
Inside Beauty – Groovy Nate
Lift Every Voice and Sing – Culture Queen
Little Black Boy, Little Black Girl – Rissi Palmer - 1 Tribe Collective
Make It Beautiful – City Love
March Together – Aaron Nigel Smith - 1 Tribe Collective
My Crown  – Fyütch (feat. Uncle Jumbo)
My Light  – Alphabet Rockers
The Nitro  – Alphabet Rockers
No Time For Hate –Annie Lynn
On the Corner (Interlude)  – Alphabet Rockers
One Tribe – 1 Tribe Collective
Our Turn  – Alphabet Rockers
Power (Interlude)  – Alphabet Rockers
Questions (Interlude)  – Alphabet Rockers
Questions (addressing bias)  – Alphabet Rockers
Red, White and Blue – Two of a Kind
Restorative Justice  – Alphabet Rockers
Rise  – Alphabet Rockers
Ruby's Anthem: Education Is A Right – Kymberly Stewart
Say Their Names  – Ms. Janis - 1 Tribe Collective
Shine  – Alphabet Rockers
Shine (Melanin Remix) – Alphabet Rockers - 1 Tribe Collective
Slide  – Alphabet Rockers
Someday –Alphabet Rockers
Some Rights in this World – Jan Nigro
Stand Up  – Little Miss Ann
Stand Up for You  – Alphabet Rockers
Strength in Numbers – Alphabet Rockers
Sway  – Alphabet Rockers
Tear Down the Walls – Jan Nigro
Tell Me Your Story – Two of a Kind
They Say I'm – City Love
There's Joy – City Love
Turn on the Lights  – Alphabet Rockers
Until You're Free –Alphabet Rockers
Walls  – Alphabet Rockers
We Shall Walk/Debemose Caminar  – Suzi Shelton feat. Sonia de los Santos
Walls and Bridges – Two of a Kind
Woke Interlude  – Alphabet Rockers

Songs for LGBTQIA+ Pride
#100K Masks –Alphabet Rockers
Be Strong –Alphabet Rockers
Be Who You Are –Two of a Kind
Fearless – I Am Bullyproof Music
I Know You See Me –Alphabet Rockers
Just Be –Alphabet Rockers
Live Your Life –Alphabet Rockers
Love Makes a Family – Kymberly Stewart
Love Makes A Family – Two of a Kind
More Love – Vivi Melody & Family
Nonconformist – I Am Bullyproof Music
Not Alone –Alphabet Rockers
They/Them –Alphabet Rockers
They're My Best Friend (Non-binary Friendship)  – Ants on a Log
Us (Interlude) –Alphabet Rockers
We Royal –Alphabet Rockers
We(Interlude) –Alphabet Rockers
Who I Am –Annie Lynn

Songs to Empower Women and Girls:
A Princess Can Be Smart – Auntie Kayte
Gather the Women – Earth Mama - Joyce Rouse
Girls Who Rock the World – Two of a Kind
Standing On The Shoulders – Earth Mama - Joyce Rouse
We've Come A Long Way, Ladies – Earth Mama - Joyce Rouse
What Book? – Ants on a Log
Women Hold Up Half the Sky – Earth Mama - Joyce Rouse

Songs for Empowering People with Disabilities
Don't Get the Senses Blues – Music, Movement & Magination, Inc.
Einstein – I Am Bullyproof Music
Everyone Has Strengths To Be Proud Of – Cathy Bollinger 
Everyone is Differently Abled – Lorraine Bayes and Danny Deardorff
It's OK That Sometimes I Don't Understand– Cathy Bollinger
Let Me Play Too – Dr. Mac & Happy Kids Songs
Life Beyond Sight – Val Smalkin & Maryland School for the Blind

Songs for Celebrating Differences
Because We're Friends – Music with Mar.
Come on Board! – Paulette Meier
Different – West Los Angeles Children's Choir
Going Down The Road – Little Miss Ann
I'm Not a Christmas Celebrator – Ants on a Log
Just Being Me –The Wise Channel
Multicultural World – Joyce Paultre
No Two Alike – Mrs. Music
One World – Keystone Creations
Only One You – Claudia Robin Gunn
Pieces of a Quilt – Lauren Mayer
Under One Sky – Two of a Kind
We All Live Together – Kymberly Stewart
We Are All Alike – Hap Palmer
We Are The Children of The World – Donna & Andy
We're Just Like Crayons – Stephen Fite
You Interlude –Alphabet Rockers

See also:  Friendship Songs, American Folk Songs, Anti-Bullying and Character Education Songs.

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Book Suggestions:

I Am Enough by Grace Byers (Author), Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (Author), Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)

Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights by Jerome Pohlen (Author)

Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee (Author), Naomi Bardoff (Illustrator)

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn (Author), Noah Grigni (Illustrator)

It's OK to be Different by Sharon Purtill (Author), Sujata Saha (Illustrator)

Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley (Author), Cedella Marley (Author), John Jay Cabuay (Illustrator)

Skin Like Mine by Latashia M Perry (Author)