Racial Healing Formation Resources
Books:
- Booklist for All Ages by the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Anti-Racist Resource list for Students and Families
- Baptized in the Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Charles Reagan Wilson)
- Backlash (George Yancy)
- A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (LeRae Sikes Umfleet)
- Slaves in the Family (Edward Ball)
- The Half Has Never Been Told (Edward Baptist)
- I’m Still Here (Austin Channing Brown)
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
- The Sun Does Shine (Anthony Ray Hinton)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
- Blood Done Sign My Name (Timothy B. Tyson)
- Biased (Jennifer Eberhardt)
- White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
- The Person You Mean to Be (Dolly Chugh) – A podcast episode summarizing her work can be found here.
- How the Irish Became White (Noah Ignatiev)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) – A recent podcast episode of On Being where this book was summarized can be found here.
- Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People (Church Publishing)
- Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? A Board Book (Brightly)
- The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Caldecott Honor)
- Portraits of African-American Heroes (Tonya Bolden)
- Faces: A Love Story (Roger Hutchison)
Websites, Museums, Documentaries, & Podcasts:
- New York Times 1619 Project
- Traces of the Trade (Katrina Brown)
- Remember the Titans (about Martin County, NC)
- Best of Enemies (about Durham, NC)
- TED Talk by Angelica Dass on skin color
- Tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
- Wilmington on Fire
- Lynching.web.unc.edu
- Financial Literacy in the Black Community
- CodeSwitch Podcast and Blog
Resources for Talking to Children and Young People about Race and Racism:
- Talking With Our Children About Race (Wendy Claire Barrie)
- Teaching Tips on Race and Racism (Building Faith)
- Processing Racialized Violence with Middle and High School Students (Fuller Youth Institute)
- How to Talk to Kids about Racism, Protests, and Police (Today Show Parents)
- Embrace Race: Raising a Braver Generation Together
Worship Resources:
- An Interfaith Litany Against Violence (Building Faith)
- Prayers for Racial Reconciliation and Justice (Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music for the Episcopal Church)
Adult Curriculum and Resources:
- Sacred Ground (The Episcopal Church)
- Series on Social Justice (Church Next)
- Racial Reconciliation Resources (The Episcopal Church)
- Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
- Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of An American Pilgrimage (Pauli Murray)
- Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing
- God’s Gonna Trouble the Water: Freedom’s Call and Response in African American Spirituals (Past Event from The National Cathedral)
- Breath Prayers for Anxious Times (Sarah Bessey)
Children’s Resources:
- Godly Play Less to Celebrate MLK Jr’s Feast day in April (Wendy Claire Barrie)
- Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? A Board Book (Brightly)
- The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Caldecott Honor)
- Peace Dove Craft (Create In Honor of Peaceful Protest)
- Portraits of African-American Heroes (Tonya Bolden)
- Patchwork Quilts (Map to Freedom Craft Idea)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (Baylor University Vocal Performance, with the same name as two Episcopal Hymnals)
- Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People (Church Publishing)
- Absalom Jones: America’s First Black Priest (Morehouse Publishing)
Youth Resources:
- Diversity Curriculum (Episcopal Curriculum for Youth)
- Peace Curriculum (Episcopal Curriculum for Youth)
- Race & Racism Series (Ministry to Youth)
- MARCH: A Graphic Novel (Congressman John Lewis)
- Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation on an Alabama Bus (Radio Diaries)
- Instagram Story Prayer Stations (Activity Idea, can create around racial healing and social justice)
- The 1963 March on Washington (SALT Project Video)
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