Racial Justice Resources
Books Non-Fiction • So You Want To Talk About Race? By Ijeoma Oluo Honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo This in-depth exploration examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society".
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin • Across the Bridge by John Lewis • Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson • I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson • The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph • Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-Gooden • More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth • 7 Anti-Racist Books Recommended by Educators and Activists • 20 Must Read Non-Fiction Books by Black Authors
Fiction • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi • Cane River by Lalita Tademy • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult • The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas • Black Water Rising by Attica Locke • Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Poetry • African American Poetry 250 Years of Struggle & Song edited by Kevin Young
50 Books by Black Authors Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry, because they are excellent books not just tools for you to be less Racist. Black Authors should be given credit and recognition for their work outside of expressing their trauma and educating folks on how they deserve to be treated!
Films/Documentaries • Dear White People – Netflix • The Hate U Give – Netflix • Trial 4 – Netflix • LongShot -- Netflix documentary • Just Mercy – Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu • 13th -- Netflix documentary about mass incarceration in the American prison industry • 10 Black History Documentaries with trailers
Articles • Ignatian Articles and Reflections on Responding to Racial Injustice • The Case for Reparations -- by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic • Opinion | How Ta-Nehisi Coates turned reparations from a punchline into a policy objective -- by Jonathan Capehart – The Washington Post
Podcasts • Merton, Malcolm X, and Catholic Engagement with Black Lives Matter featuring Father Bryan N. Massingale, one of the world’s leading Catholic social ethicists and scholars of African-American theological ethics, racial justice and liberation theology. • 1619 (New York Times) -- Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia and how slavery has transformed America, connecting the past and present • Having Better Conversations -- Journalist, Public Speaker and Author Celeste Headlee reveals the science and history behind human communication, shares keys to unlock deeper conversations, and explains how critical empathy is for our ability to listen and connect.
Miscellaneous
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21-Day Ignation Racial Equity Challenge A challenge of understanding the realities of racial injustice and anti-Blackness in the U.S, including opportunities to learn, pray, and act on different themes of racial equity.
28 Days of Black History