Racial Justice Resources

Here is a list of great resources to begin and continue your journey learning about racial justice and how to become actively anti-racist. The list has been compiled by our Justice Action Team.

• Books

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

  • Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

  • The Fire Next Time; I Am Not Your Negro; The Cross of Redemption all by James Baldwin

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  • Bury My Hear at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

  • White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzales

  • How to Be Antiracist; Stamped from the Beginning both by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates

  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

  • The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andres Resendez

  • Is Everyone Really Equal? Ann Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education by Oslem Sensoy, Robin DiAngelo, et al.,

  • From#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Articles

  • You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument

• Podcasts/Radio

  • On Being:

    • A Conversation with Robin DiAngelo & Resmaa Menakem

    • Ruby Sales--The Inner Life of Social Change

    • Resmaa Menakem--Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence

    • Vincent Harding--Is America Possible?

• Movies/Documentaries/Videos

  • A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery (YouTube)

  • White Savior: Racism in the American Church (Amazon Prime)

  • I Am Not Your Negro (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Kanopy)

  • Holy Post: Race in America by Phil Vischer (YouTube)

  • United Shades of America: Where Do We Even Start with White Supremacy? with W. Kamau Bell

  • The Long Shadow

• Social Media Accounts to Follow

  • White Nonsense Roundup

  • Ally Henny

  • Christena Cleveland

  • Lace on Race

• Other

  • Legislation: Black & Puerto Rican Caucus Agenda for Equity

  • An American Lament Devotional

• Resource Lists from Others

  • Willow Creek Resources to Combat Racism

  • Shareable Anti-Racist Resource Guide by Tasha K

• Trainings

  • Race Forward/Colorlines Racial Justice Trainings

  • Whites for Racial Equity Free Online Classes

• For Kids/Working with Kids

  • EmbraceRace Webinars, Resources, and More