This is a list of resources from the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, someone Julie and Paul admire madly.
A few BOOKS
I’m Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (become a subscriber to her substack, ROLL CALL here)
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors
Dear Church: A Love Letter From A Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in America by Lenny Duncan.
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in The Age Of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Just mercy; A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
A Bunch of BLACK VOICES: (suggestion – when something happens in our world and you have a different reaction to it than Black, Indigenous and People of Color, have some curiosity about why that is.)
Neichelle Guidry – Preacher and Dean of the Chapel, Spelman College
Chenjerai Kumanyika – Activist and assistant professor, Rutgers University’s Dept of Journalism and Media Studies
Lisa Sharon Harper – Speaker, writer, activist, author
The Root – Black news and media aggregate
Roxane Gay – Badass writer
Bree Newsome Bass – activist, writer, artist, consultant
Wil Gafney – Womanist Bible scholar at Brite Divinity School, Episcopal priest
Theresa Thames – Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University, preacher, yogi, cultivator of joy
Gene Demby – host of NPR’s Code Switch
Rozella White – Author, consultant and coach (become a subscriber to her substack LOVE BIG COLLECTIVE here)
One great article about the Racial Contract in America
A Couple Places I give money:
National Bail Out (provides bail money for Black mothers)
Fair Fight (fights voter suppression – Stacy Abrams’ organization)
A few organizations that are pertinent to what is happening right now: