Resources to Facilitate Discussion About Race (with special thanks to Rabbi Melanie Aron)

Film:

• Baltimore Rising (The impact of Freddie Gray) • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland • Emanuel (The story of the Charleston shooting during bible study) • Just Mercy • Selma • 13th (Documentary which argues that present day mass incarceration is an extension of slavery based on the 13th amendment.) • Eyes On the Prize (Civil Rights Documentary Series) • I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary featuring James Baldwin) • When They See Us (The story of the Central Park 5)

Books:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo • How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Joy DeGruy Leary • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates • Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in The Story of Race, Debby Irving • America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Karen Anderson • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum • So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates • Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities: Promoting Equity and Culturally Responsive Care Across Settings, Monica T. Williams • White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, Robert P. Jones • Advocates: The Narrow Path to Racial Reconciliation, Dhati Lewis

Articles and Papers:

• “The Problem with Saying ‘All Lives Matter’,” Tyler Huckabee • “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning,” Claudia Rankine • “A Challenge to White Allies in the New Year: Resolve to Do Your Part to Dismantle White Supremacy,” Monica Raye Simpson • “How Hate Spreads,” Daniel Lombroso • “When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equity Feels Like Oppression,” Chris Boeskool • “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh • “What You Can Do Right Now About Police Brutality,” Ijeoma Oluo

Social Media:

• Be The Bridge, https://bethebridge.com, an interracial non-profit organization and community of people who share a common goal of creating healthy dialogue about race in the United States.