Racial Justice and Equity Resources

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WE believe

That all people are made in the image and likeness of God, and that all people are equal in God’s sight; that God’s people are called to deconstruct the sinful conditioning of racism that denies equal citizenship to all of God’s people; that through the Holy Spirit’s sanctifying power, people can unlearn and relearn ways of being in the world.

 

Books to read about what systemic racism is:

  1. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Dr. Beverly Tatum

  2. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Books to read about systemic racism and society:

  1. The New Jim Crow by Dr. Michelle Alexander

  2. The End of Policing by Alex Vitale

Books to read to deconstruct internalized racism:

  1. Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

Books to read about racism in the modern American Church:

  1. Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. by Lenny Duncan

  2. Dear White Christians by Jennifer Harvey

  3. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

  4. White Awake by Daniel Hill

Books to read about Black liberation theology and womanist theology:

  1. The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

  2. I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation Chanequa Walker-Barnes

  3. Sisters in the Wilderness by Delores Williams

Sermons and speeches about Black liberation:

  1. “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. “Holy Blackness” by Rev. Wil Gafney

If you would like a more comprehensive list that is differentiated based on individual starting places, please check out this resource.