Recommendations for reading, listening and action Shared from the Sacred Ground Series at St. Andrew’s, Norfolk

Where do we go from here?

Possible Next Steps

 Start/continue a dialogue group or book study at church or on your own.  Participate in local events (MLK Day, forums and lectures, etc.).  Educate yourself and your family through conversations, books, and films.  Subscribe to relevant podcasts, Facebook pages, blogs, etc.  Volunteer in church ministries that promote cross-racial engagement and encounter.  Support local, state, and national organizations working for racial justice (see the list below).  Speak up when friends, relatives, colleagues, or strangers say racially-biased or offensive things. Practice being an upstander rather than a bystander.  Help organize future speakers/movie nights/book studies at your church.  Visit museums that feature exhibits on racial history.  Evaluate and speak out about racial dynamics/policies in your neighborhood, community, schools, church, places of business, etc.  Support the emerging Latino/Latina/Latinx ministry of our diocese.  Visit spaces and businesses in town that are owned or frequented by people of color – restaurants, small businesses, theaters, etc.  Learn about local issues affecting people of color and be an advocate.

Local/State Organizations Advocates for Racial Justice Coming to the Table https://comingtothetable.org/ Hands United Building Bridges https://hubbusa.org (under construct) Inheiritance Project (coming next year) https://inheiritance.org/ Unmasking Hampton Roads https://www.virginiahumanities.org/ Urban League of Hampton Roads https://www.ulhr.org/ Urban Renewal Center https://theurcnorfolk.com/ Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities https://inclusiveva.org/ Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy https://www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org/ Virginia Organizing https://virginia-organizing.org/ National Organizations Anti-Defamation League https://www.adl.org/ Asian American Justice Center https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/ Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/ NAACP https://www.naacp.org/ National Congress of American Indians http://www.ncai.org/ People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond http://www.pisab.org/ Racial Equity Institute https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/ Race Forward https://www.raceforward.org/ Repairers of the Breach https://breachrepairers.org Unidos US https://www.unidosus.org/ Union of Black Episcopalians https://www.ube.org/

Limited Bibliography (Adult) – in alphabetical order by author Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Channing Brown, I’m Still Here Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree Kimberly Crenshaw, ed., Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Lenny Duncan, Dear Church Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Stony the Road Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Reconstructing the Gospel Jennifer Harvey, Dear White Christians and Raising White Kids Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America Harold Lewis, Yet with a Steady Beat (African Americans in the Episcopal Church) Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk about Race Paul Ortiz, African American and Latinx History of the United States Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law Layla Saad, Me and White Supremacy Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy Ray Suarez, Latino Americans Beverly D. Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited Jim Wallis, America’s Original Sin Frank Wu, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States Limited Bibliography (Kids) – in order of recommended age Nikki Giovanni, Rosa Kwame Alexander, The Undefeated Jacqueline Woodson, The Day You Begin Ibtihaj Muhammad, The Proudest Blue Aslan and Kelly Tudor, Young Water Protectors Christian Robinson, Harlem’s Little Blackbird Cozbi Cabrera, My Hair Is A Garden Vashti Harrison, Little Leaders and Little Legends Carole Boston Weatherford, Moses Marianne Celano, Something Happened in Our Town Brad Meltzer, I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. Jelani Memory, A Kids Book About Racism Lisa Moore Ramee, A Good Kind of Trouble Andrea Davis Pinkney, Let It Shine Art Coulson, Unstoppable Andrea Davis Pinkney, Sit-in Duncan Tonatiuh, Separate Is Never Equal Ann Turner, My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth Jenny Kay Dupuis, I Am Not A Number Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie Christy Hale, All Equal: A Ballad of Lemon Grove Gary Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Sharon Draper, Stella by Starlight and Blended Carole Boston Weatherford, Schomburg and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming Varsha Bajaj, Count Me In Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys Kristin Levine, The Lions of Little Rock Brenda Woods, The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry John Lewis, March: Book One Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockinbird Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give Gloria Chao, Our Wayward Fate Nic Stone, Dear Martin Films: 12 Years a Slave 13th 42 African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Akeelah and the Bee (family) Beatriz at Dinner Cesar Chavez Crash Dances with Wolves Dawnland Dear White People Do the Right Thing Eyes on the Prize (series) Fruitvale Station Ghosts of Mississippi Glory Road (family) Harriet Healing Justice Hello Privilege, It’s Me, Chelsea Hidden Figures (family) I Am Not Your Negro Invictus (family) Loving Malcolm X McFarland, USA (family) Mississippi Burning Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS series) Real Women Have Curves Reel Injun Remember the Titans (family) Ruby Bridges (family) Selma Smoke Signals Slavery by Another Name Stand and Deliver The Butler The Help The Long Walk Home The Secret Life of Bees Under the Same Moon Podcasts: Codeswitch (NPR) On Being (NPR) – Interviews with Ruby Sales and Ta-Nehisi Coates 1619 (The New York Times)

Newsfeeds: The Grio (www.thegrio.com) The Root (www.theroot.com)

Radio: WHRO’s Another View https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/anotherview

Newspaper:The New Journal and Guide, a weekly newspaper dedicated to African American news and issues in Hampton Roads http://thenewjournalandguide.com/