Related Resources

July 23, 2020 | At the Heart of the Matter: Our Race Shapes Our Realities

During the event, Karen McNeil-Miller, president and CEO of The Colorado Health Foundation, invited attendees to share resources related to the conversation centering on the starkly different realities Coloradans experience across the state and the roots of those realities. Here’s a list of the resources attendees mentioned, sorted by category (read, watch and listen):

Read

 “A People’s History of the ” (Howard Zinn)  “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (Matthew Desmond)  “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)  “How to Be an Antiracist” (Ibram X. Kendi)  “More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You… and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise” (Cecilia Munoz)  “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies” (Resmaa Menakem)  “Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable” (Marc Lamont Hill)  “Race for Profit” (Keeange-Yamahtta Taylor)  “Race Matters” (Cornell West)  “Race to Justice” (Larry Sells)  “The Color of Law” (Richard Rothstein)  “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” (Mehrsa Baradaran)  “The Condemnation of Blackness” ()  “The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today” article (Gabrielle Bellot, )  “The Miseducation of the Negro” (Carter Godwin Woodson)  “The New Jim Crow” (Michelle Alexander)  “The Search for Justice” article (Wellesley Magazine Spring 2016, Amita Parashar Kelly)  “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” (C. Vann Woodward)  “The Warmth of Other Suns” (Isabel Wilkerson)  “Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide and Threatens Our Future” (Thomas Shapiro)  “When Affirmative Action Was White” (Ira Katznelson)  “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” (Carol Anderson)

Watch

 “13th” film (Netflix)  “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” with Emmanuel Acho  “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” (James Baldwin debated against William Buckley in 1965 at Cambridge Union)  “No Safety, No Health: A Conversation About Race, Place and Preventing Violence” presentation (Allies for Reaching Community Health Equity)  “Slavery by Another Name” documentary (PBS)  “The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation” presentation (American Public Health Association)  “United Shades of America” TV series (Kamau Bell, CNN)

Listen

 “” podcast ( Magazine)  “Code Switch” podcast (National Public Radio)  “COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Disadvantaged Communities at Higher Risk?” podcast episode (Mary I. O’Connor, MD, 2020 National Caucus Addressing Musculoskeletal Health Disparities)  “Going Beyond Disparities and Competency: Why We Need to Focus on Achieving Health Equity and Cultural Competency” podcast episode (Mary I. O’Connor, MD, 2020 National Caucus Addressing Musculoskeletal Health Disparities)  “New Books in African American Studies” podcast (Stitcher)  “Nice White Parents” podcast (The New York Times)  “On Being” podcast (Krista Tippett, The On Being Project)  “Pass the Mic” podcast (amplifying female, trans and non-binary voices in music)  “Pod Save the People” podcast (Crooked Media)  “Rough Translation” podcast (National Public Radio)  “Seeing White” podcast (John Biewen)  “With Friends Like These” podcast (Crooked Media)