Resources for Racial Awareness

Below is a list of resources to help us understand the experience of others and understand our own experience more objectively.  You may not agree with everything you read, see, or hear.  It will make you uncomfortable.  You will likely feel defensive at many points.  You don’t have to reach final conclusions about this.  We simply invite you to listen, to hear another’s truth, and gain new insights on the American perspective from voices we don’t always hear.  It’s an important part of becoming a community of all kinds of people.  Thanks for moving outside your comfort zone!

Books

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

Waking Up White by Debby Irving

Sweet Freedom by Doug Tjapkes

Articles/Podcasts

1619 Podcast (available on iTunes, Google Podcasts, etc.)

Racial Injustice Benefitted Me - A Confession - Phil Vischer 

How to Overcome Our Biases - Verna Myers (TED Talk)

Racism Is Real - Brave New Films

Movies/Documentaries

I Am Not Your Negro (NetFlix)

13th (Netflix)

Slavery by Another Name (PBS)

Waiting For Superman (Amazon)

Recovery’s Racial Divide (Front Line)

Blackkklansman (Amazon/HBO)

When They See Us (Netflix)