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The Resources.
We invite you to explore our comprehensive and constantly updated portfolio of resources that our membership has compiled to help advance awareness and critical conversations around systemic racism. These materials include books, movies, videos, podcasts, articles, social media content, educators, influencers, meeting summaries, and much more.
We encourage you to tap into these resources, and let us know if you have items to add – this is a group effort! If you have suggestions, please let us know!
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13th (movie)
4 Little Girls
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Eyes on the Prize (documentary series)
Good Trouble (homage to Congressman John Lewis)
The Hate U Give (Also an excellent young adult novel)
Hidden Figures
I Am Not Your Negro
Just Mercy (Also a great book)
Loving
Malcolm X
Moonlight - Race to the Start Produced by Kona Khasu ’92 in 2019, highlights the history of the Black Student Union (BSU) at Holy Cross, in honor of the organization’s 50th anniversary
TINA
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On Being with Krista Tippett- Eula Biss Talking About Whiteness
Here’s the Thing Podcast – Alec Baldwin
Isabel Wilkerson about the best-selling book, Caste and William Darity on reparations
Mission Driven (Holy Cross Podcast featuring many notable Black alum)
Politically Reactive with W. Kamari Bell and Hari Kondibolu
Comedians with a social justice bent. Definitely add to your podcast queue if you need something that is equal parts humorous and challenging.Intersectionality Matters with Kimberle Crenshaw
GirlTek’s Black History Boot Camp
Two women encourage girls to walk and learn about Black history, through biographies. Each episode about a different person, very interesting, and upliftingKelly Corrigan Podcast
99% Invisible Podcast
Episode 201: The Green Book. A travel guide to make traveling safer for black motorists across America
Episode 253: Manzanar. As violence against Asian Americans is on the rise, it is important to remember what the US did to Japanese Americans during WWII (members of my uncle’s family were in such a camp in Canada)
Episode 331: Oñate’s Foot. While not focused on issues impacting the black community, I think it is important for members of the group to open up to other conflicts between groups and the conflict around Statues
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White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
Diversity and Inclusion Asks, Equity and Social Justice Responds
Equity in Theory, Equity in Reality
Diversity and Inclusion vs. Equity and Justice
“What Is Owed” by Nykole Hannah-Jones
Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystem
Northwestern University online course, “Leading Diversity and Equity”
Yale Open Course (free) – AFAM 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present with Prof. Jonathan Holloway
You can watch all lectures for free, or you can also read the transcripts, and they read like a book.
Statements Supporting Black Lives Matter Are Not Enough, Schools Must Do More
Website – SURJ – End White Silence
The Racist Legacy Many Birds Carry
The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can do About it
The Marshall Project
The Anti-Racism Daily
1619 Project
The GI Bill was One of the Worst Racial Injustices of the 20th Century. Congress Can Fix it
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Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
(plus all his other works)The Poet X
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Charles Blow
Bakari Sellers
Jon Favreau
Ari Melber
DL Hughley
Deray
Ezra Klein
Athena Jones
Alexis Goldstein
Jemele Hill
Chenjerai Kimanyika
@catchatweetdown
@BlackatHolyCross
Instagram
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Black Catholic experience in the Catholic Church
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Church of Christ
Stations of the Cross- Overcoming Racism
Rev. Dr. Jacqi Lewis, Middle Church, NYC – numerous educational videos on “The Call of This Moment” and anti-racism work, available at very small fee
Father John Yonkovig, St Agnes Church, Lake Placid, NY, June 13, 2020 Homily
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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing and US Social Transformation by Fania Davis
The Power To Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care System by David Barton Smith
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Autobiography of Malcolm X
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (also a film)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
(also his piece called “The Case for Reparations”)
Anything by Angela Davis
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good
Ancestor by Layla Saad
Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James O’Toole
My Dungeon Shook by James Baldwin
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays by R. Eric Thomas
A comedic memoir told in essays.
We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Aditchie
Any Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Black Wall Street: A book on the Tulsa Massacre by Hannibal B. Johnson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
(Garza is co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement)
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Father Bryan Massingale
This is the Fire, What I Say to My Friends About Racism by Don Lemon
Tattoos on the Heart by Fr. Greg Boyle
Preaching to the Choir by Fr. Greg Boyle
We Want to Do More than Survive by Bettina Love
Anything written by Bettina Love
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper
Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church by Olga SeguraItem description
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones by Tayari Jones
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson(also a film)
Going to Meet the Man (short story)by James Baldwin (but really anything by Baldwin)
Beloved by Toni Morrison(but really anything by Morrison)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
If We Must Die by Claude McKay
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lucille Clifton
Robert Hayden
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith.Item description
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31 Resources That Will Help You Become a Better White Ally
Diversity and Inclusion Asks, Equity and Social Justice Responds
Equity in Theory, Equity in Reality
Diversity and Inclusion vs. Equity and Justice
Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement
Unpacking the Invisible Backpack
Homework Assignment Speaks to US Relationship with the History of Slavery
New College Board curriculum puts the African diaspora in the spotlight Tauheedah Baker
Letter to from Marquette University President
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
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The Conciliation Project
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Homeboy Industries
An organization started by Fr. Greg Boyle in LA to break down the intense and deadly divisions between rival gang members by teaching and living the idea of kinship and seeing one another as equal human beings. -
Danielle Sered, Common Justice
Marlon Peterson, activist and writer
R v. Gladue, Supreme Court of Canada
LASO 30th Anniversary: El Camino de La Mariposa
$100 Bill Race – Privilege explained
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (video series) – Emmanuel Acho
Akmed Lorence – “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A N*****”
The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Wire (TV series)
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