Racial Reconciliation Resources
Sacred Ground Film Based Dialogue - The Episcopal Church
Resource type: Curriculum, Video Series, Online
A film and readings based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Part of the Episcopal Church's long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice. Can be done individually or in a church study group.
Training to Stop Anti-Asian and Xenophobic Harassment - Hollaback
Resource type: Workshops, Online, Racial Reconciliation
In response to the rise of violence against Asian Americans and Xenophobic harassment due to fears surrounding the Corona-virus, Hollaback created this training to prevent future violence and hate against these communities. Sign up for these workshops here.
The Church Cracked Open - Stephanie Spellers
Resource type: Book
The Church Cracked Open invites us to surrender privilege and redefine church, not just for the sake of others, but for our own salvation and liberation. In this newly released book, Spellers explores the American story and the Episcopal story in order to find out how communities steeped in racism, establishment, and privilege can at last fall in love with Jesus.
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
Resource type: Book
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
Resource type: Book
In the New York Times Bestseller, How to Be an Anti-racist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of anti-racist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Emmanuel Acho
Resource type: Book
In this top-rated book, Emmanuel Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask―yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. The former NFL player explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism".
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) - Bryan Stevenson
Resource type: Book
In this work, adapted from the New York Times #1 Bestseller, Stevenson's story is one of working to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society--the poor, the wrongly convicted, and those whose lives have been marked by discrimination and marginalization. Through this adaptation, young people of today will find themselves called to action and compassion in the pursuit of justice.
Resource type: Additional Resources, Online
Here, you'll find resources that have been gathered to help individuals educate others, take action against Anti-Asian Hate, donate, and more.
Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-Racist Reading List
Resource type: Book List, Online
Covering many different topics, these books present the reader with many issues of race and racism. By reading these books, the reader gains a clear definition of what it means to be Anti-Racist, the history of racism, and how racism is still present in today's society.
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope - Jasmine Holmes
Resource type: Book
In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man. She invites us to read over her shoulder as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.
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