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Racial Equality page – under construction

 

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)

One amazing podcast episode that will make you re-think the story we tell about Brown v Board of Education

A few organizations that are pertinent to what is happening right now:

Black Visions Collective

Movement for Black Lives

Color of Change