List of Resources on Racial Issues Articles
"Let's talk about race",
Oprah, May 2017
"The case for reparations", Coates, Atlantic Monthly, June 2014
Books/Authors
Author, Gwendolyn
Brooks Author,
Kwame Alexander
Author, Shema
Alexia Author,
Octavia Butler
Bible (Amos 5:14-15 and 5:23-24) Between the World and
Me (Coates)
The Hate U Give (Thomas-YA)
The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
The Pentecost Paradigm ( Jacqui Lewis & John Janka)
Waking up White (Debbie Irving)
Liberty and Justice for All (Ronald C. White, Jr)
Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism (Carolyn B.
Helsel)
The Source of Self Regard (Morrison)
A Sojourner’s Truth (Robinson)
White Fragility (Diangelo)
Good White Racist? (Connelly)
Parable of the Brown Girl (Adams)
Documentaries
"Accidental Courtesy"
"OJ Simpson" (ESPN's 30 for 30) "13th"
"Racial Taboo"
Movies
"Hidden Figures"
"Moonlight"
"Straight Outta
Compton" "Dope"
"A Family
Thing"
"Fences"
"Selma" "Glory Road"
"Remember the
Titans" "Get
Out"
Music
Freedom Highway (CD),
Rhiannon Giddens "River" (song),
Leon Bridges
Organizations
Coming to the Table http://www.comingtothetable-rva.org/
Circle of
Compassion (local)
Civil Conversation
Project Moral
Monday (regional)
Peninsula Baptist Association's (Monthly mtgs. on race, poverty & violence) People to People (local Newport
News, VA)
Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Racial Justice
Serve the City Peninsula and Serve the
City Chesapeake Urban Renewal Center
(Norfolk, led by Dr. Antipas Harris)
Virginia Wesleyan University's Center for the Study of Religious Freedom (lecture)
Radio/Podcasts
"Another View", WHRV 89.5, Thursdays at noon "On Point", NPR, 4/17/17 and
4/21/17 Serial Podcast, Season 1
Code Switch Your Neighbor's Hood (produced locally) The New York Times’ 1619 Podcast Still
Processing
TV
American
Crime
American
Race
Black-ish (Episode "Self- segregation", 5/3/17) Dear White
People
Shots Fired
Web Links
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Resources on Antiracism Work, the Belhar Confession, &
Building Intercultural Community Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Racial Justice storycorps.org (also Story Corps on NPR) nytimes.com "Race/Related"
Eyes on the Stars, YouTube
The New York Times 1619 Project https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
"True Colors", Diane Sawyer report from
1991, YouTube Key & Peele, Substitute
Teacher, YouTube
Key & Peele, Auction
Block, YouTube "Your
Black Friend", YouTube www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/race-related/ wbur.org/onpoint/2017/04/17/black-bodies- green-spaces wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/04/21/leaders-boston-march-for-science serialpodcast.org/season-one www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465140411/leon-bridges-river www.oprah.com/inspiration/why-we-need-to-talk-about-race