Racial Justice Resources
General Resources
Insights & Impact Webinar Series - The Episcopal Impact Fund We Need to Be: A Series on Social Justice, Poverty and Impact
In this time of heightened focus, acknowledging the intersection between race, class and poverty has become even more urgent. An impactful response requires education, commitment, personal transformation, and action.
Videos
8:46 - Dave Chappelle
How Can We Win - by Kimberly Jones
An Outrage: A Documentary Film About Lynching in the American South - Viewers Guide – Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren: A Viewers Guide for Grades 9-12:
An Outrage, a documentary film by Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, ad- dresses the dark and painful history of lynching in the American South. Set against the backdrop of six lynching sites, An Outrage looks at this history through the eyes of community activists, scholars and descendants of victims. The interviews highlight the deep, lasting effects of lynchings—used as a tool of social control and racial violence against African Americans for close to a century following the Civil War—and their connections to the present.
When They See Us – Ava Duvernay
Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they are falsely accused of a brutal attack Central Park. Based on a true story. On Netflix with subscription required.
Articles & Essays
"Who Gets to Be Afraid in America" – Ibram X. Kendi
"Glimmers of Hope" – John A. Powell
"America, This Is Your Chance" – Michelle Alexander
"The 1619 Project" – New York Times Magazine (Requires Subscription)
"So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth" – New York Times Magazine (Requires Subscription)
Curricula and Compiled Resources
Books
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
"The Best of Simple" by Langston Hughes
"The Angela Y. Davis Reader" Edited by Joy James
"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward E. Baptist
"Fledging" by Octavia Butler
"Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde
Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
"Black Wall Street - A testament to the human spirit following the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot" by Hannibal B. Johnson
Blogs
Thirteenth – Ava Duvernay
Slavery. Jim Crow. Criminalization. Links in a chain of racily inequality, forged by political and economic motives. On Netflix with subscription required.