resources
From the Church
"Open Wide Our Hearts" - A Pastoral Letter Against Racism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2018.
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"Let the Church Roll On" Bishop Fernand Cheri, OFM (PDF) August 4, 2020
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops : Adhoc Committee on Racism
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For the Love of One Another, September, 1989
Bishops' Committee on Black Catholics
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Black History Month Homily, February 2021
Homilist: Fr. Gregory Chisholm, SJ
In the St. Louis Archdiocese
St. Cletus Parish Peace & Justice Ministry (St. Charles MO)
Printables
Prayers
We must be examples for children by Marian Wright Edelman
Articles
With Blackness still under assault, the church cannot remain silent.
By Black Catholic Messenger, February 23, 2022
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"Digging into the roots of my racialized childhood"
By Susan Rose Francois, March 5, 2021
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”Underneath the Melting Pot”
By Jason Purnell, The Common Reader, May 28, 2020
“What is Solidarity?"
By Alnoor Lahda, Kosmos, Autumn 2020
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White Supremacy Culture
By Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
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The Forgotten Story of America’s “Whites Only” Towns
By Dan Carter, Unitarian Universalist World Magazine, Winter 2007
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Becoming a White Ally to Black People
By Janee Woods. Entry posted at What Matters on August 14, 2014
"The church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation"
By Shannen Dee Williams, National Catholic Reporter, June 15, 2020
A Toolkit for White People on the 5th Anniversary of Trayvon’s Death
By Black Lives Matter, 2017
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"White Privilege; Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
By Peggy McIntosh, SEED Project for Inclusive Curriculum, Wellesley Centers for Women, 1989
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Harvard’s test to find out your implicit associations about race and other topics
Project Implicit, Harvard University, 2011
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“It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'Caste' System.”
An interview with Terry Gross on “Fresh Air,” National Public Radio, August 4, 2020
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By Stephanie Jones, Tolerance, Issue 64, Spring 2020
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Audio / Video
Juneteenth
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass; Recording from Great Speeches in History, Learning out Loud
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What Catholics need to know about Critical Race Theory
The Gloria Purvis Podcast
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TED The Urgency of Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw, TEDWomen 2016
TED Lucky Zip codes
Amy Hunter, TEDxGatewayArch, youtube.com, June 3, 2015
TED The Pathway to Ending Systemic Racism in the US
Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero, June 2020
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White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
youtube.com, February 3, 2016
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Know Justice, Know Peace: A Jesuit Antiracism Retreat
The Jesuit Post, August 2020
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho, November 2020
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Robin Diangelo and Resmaa Menakem in Conversation
On Being with Krista Tippett, Civil Conversations Project, July 9, 2020
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How Racism Makes Us Sick : TED Talk
David R. Williams, TEDMED 2016, November 2016
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50 years of racism --why silence isn’t the answer
James A. White Sr., TEDxColumbus, November 26, 2014
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Tears We Can’t Stop
Michael Eric Dyson, youtube.com, January 23, 2017
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A Lesson on Privilege
Star Values Learning Place, Facebook, August 24, 2017
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Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo
youtube.com, February 21, 2017
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"Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence" Resma Menakem
On Being with Krista Tippett, Civil Conversations Project, June 4, 2020
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"Race and Healing: A Body Practice" Resma Menakem
On Being Editors: On Being with Krista Tippett, June 3, 2020
"How Race was Made"
Seeing White podcast, S2 E2, SCENE ON RADIO, March 1, 2017
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What is Juneteenth and Why Do We Celebrate? | BrainPOP
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Juneteenth: What You Need to Know | History
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Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
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Blackish - Television Comedy Series Episode on Juneteenth - Full episode available on Hulu
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For Kids
Best Selling Books
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It, Shelly Tochluk, R&L Education, January 16, 2010
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, One World, August 13, 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, August 15, 2017
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson, One World, August 18, 2015
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem,
Central Recovery Press, September 19, 2017
Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson, Vintage, August 23, 2016
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, Vintage International, May 8, 2007
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, Vintage (reissue edition), December 1, 1992
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, Vintage Books, second edition, January 1, 1995
Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver, Delta, January 12, 1999
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, April 3, 2007
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, March 11, 2011
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly, William Morrow Paperbacks, December 6, 2016
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, Puffin Books, October 11, 2016
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama, Crown, August 10, 2004
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, August 4, 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (anniversary edition), Michelle Alexander, New Press, January 7, 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Davis,
Haymarket Books, February 9, 2016
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, John Lewis, Hachette Books, August 15, 2017
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving, Elephant Room Press, January 9, 2014
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, July 14, 2015
Tears We Cannot Stop (A Sermon to White America), Michael Eric Dyson, St. Martin's Press, January 17, 2017
Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, February 20, 2018
Same Kind of Different as Me, Ron Hall and Denver Moore, Thomas Nelson Inc, March 11, 2008
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, October 4, 2011
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, James W. Loewen, The New Press, July 17, 2018
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