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Activism and Activist OrganizationsPoor People's CampaignIn 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (co-chaired by Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharishas) picked up this unfinished work. From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people. https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
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Activism and Activist OrganizationsShowing Up for Racial JusticeSURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Click to find a local chapter.https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
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Activism and Activist OrganizationsBlack Lives Matter#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.https://blacklivesmatter.com/
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Literature: Article"The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture"From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001. The article includes a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations.https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html?link_id=3&can_id=e07d443102842e64b58fb7e3cf4dd030&source=email-wp4bl-orientation-follow-up-5&email_referrer=email_823346&email_subject=wp4bl-orientation-follow-up
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Literature: Article12 Streamable Plays that Depict Black Lives Pierced by Racism. Jesse Green. NYTimes. June 12, 2020.These plays "investigate from many angles and in many styles what it really means to say Black Lives Matter."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/theater/racism-streamable-plays.html
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Literature: Article"I, Racist." by John Metta. Medium, July 6, 2015.Metta: What follows is the text of a “sermon” that I gave as a “congregational reflection” to an all White audience at the Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday, June 28th. The sermon was begun with a reading of The Good Samaritan story, and this wonderful quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Credit for this speech goes to Chaédria LaBouvier, whose “Why We Left” inspired me to speak out about racism; to Robin DiAngelo, whose “White Fragility” gave me an understanding of the topic; and to Reni Eddo-Lodge who said “Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race” long before I had the courage to start doing it again.https://medium.com/thsppl/i-racist-538512462265
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Literature: BookCitizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society." Note to white people aspiring to ally-ship: This book is a long-form poem with visual art and poetic essay integrated in a remarkable genre bending manner that brings a white reader as close as they could ever get to seeing and experiencing the environments and events they will never live. For white allies wanting to better understand the experience of a Black person in America, this is a must-read book. https://bookshop.org/books/citizen-an-american-lyric/9781555976903
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Literature: Book"Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America" by George Yancy When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. This book is a response to that vitriol he received. "Dear White America" is linked in this document.https://www.georgeyancy.com/books.html
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Literature: BookWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol AndersonNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016

From the end of the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to Black progress in America. 		https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage
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Literature: BookWhite Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DeAngelo"The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality." This is a 101 book on whiteness. Here DeAngelo unpackes her coined term "White Fragility." Which examines the good/bad binary, and asks white people to look at mostly micro-agressions. She also has a valid chapter on white woman tears (although it's much more complex than she lays out). In addition, she draws heavily on the words of Black writers and scholars. If you are going to read this book, make sure you don't stop here. This book must be paired with a book by a Black author so that you do not erase the work of Black writers. Other 101 books to start with: Ibram Kendi's How to be an Anti-Racist (or) So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (or) White Rage by Carol Anderson. In addition, this book does not dig into history and many statements she makes require a more thorough examination than she lays out.https://bookshop.org/books/white-fragility-why-it-s-so-hard-for-white-people-to-talk-about-racism/9780807047415
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Literature: BookHow to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism--and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, the author deftly moves from autobiography to social/political events and phenomena to detail how his lived experiences clarify racism against Blacks. Kendi cites historical and current research to prove his points. His movement between the personal and the systemic/institutional gives clarity and context to racist phenomena. Kendi provides clear, concise definitions of various kinds of racism, what mindset and actions are required to be a racist and equally, what perspective and steps one takes to be an anti-racist. https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288
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Literature: BookFor White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the rest of y'all, too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Chris EmdinDrawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better. Dr. Emdin leads trainings at universities. His approach works for educators teaching in any discipline at any level. https://chrisemdin.com/https://bookshop.org/books/for-white-folks-who-teach-in-the-hood-and-the-rest-of-y-all-too-reality-pedagogy-and-urban-education/9780807028025
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Literature: BookSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.https://bookshop.org/books/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580058827
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Literature: Essay"Dear White America" by George YancyGeorge Yancy first published this article in the New York Times, and he received a great deal of vitriol. The book Backlash was his follow up response. Note that Backlash is linked in this document.https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/dear-white-america/?mtrref=undefined&gwh=589F11640F2AD20F9B6251EF3B1F0685&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL
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Literature: Essay"A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement" by Alicia GarzaAn article from the #BlackLivesMatter CoFounder, Alicia Garza, From The Feminist Wire, Oct. 7, 2014. This article defines the phrase Black Lives Matter. Alicia Garza contests the appropriation of #BlackLivesMatter and the ongoing erasure of the existence of Black queer women as the authors of the movement. Garza clarifies the term Black Lives Matter to reduce the confusion about its application. She clarifies the term in the inclusion of Black women and girls, Black immigrants, Black queer and trans folks in contrast to the straight cis Black men that are often the face of the movement. https://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/?link_id=2&can_id=e07d443102842e64b58fb7e3cf4dd030&source=email-wp4bl-orientation-follow-up-5&email_referrer=email_823346&email_subject=wp4bl-orientation-follow-up
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Literature: Essay"The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” by Audre LordeIn June 1981, Audre Lorde gave the keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Storrs, Connecticut. In the presentation, Lorde talks about her own anger towards racism, and how this anger has been received by her white colleagues. Lorde talks about the power of utilizing anger, and the necessity of white women, in particular, to listen to this anger and develop tools for "facing this anger constructively" in order to become allies to Black women.https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism/
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Literature: PlayFacing Our Truth: 10 Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race, and Privilege. A. Rey Pamatmat, et al. Samuel French, 2015.Facing Our Truth's purpose is to incite serious discussion in our collective communities around these urgent issues.https://bookshop.org/books/facing-our-truth-short-plays-on-trayvon-race-and-privilege/9780573704260
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Literature: PlayHands Up: Seven Playwrights, Seven Testaments by Nathan James, et al. A powerful set of monologues commissioned by The New Black Fest in the wake of police shootings of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Ohio, and others.https://reddoorproject.org/hands-up
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Media: Film13thCombining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how a loophole in the 13th amendment of the constitution has enabled the system of slavery to continue under the guises of Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration and Police Brutality. The film is available on Netflix or at the link for free.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
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Media: Lecture"Racism Has a Cost for Everyone" by Rachel McGhee from TEDWomen 2019Heather C. McGhee is an American political commentator political strategist. In this TED Talk, McGhee outlines how racism fuels bad policymaking and drains our economic potential. "Our fates are linked," she says. "It costs us so much to remain divided." https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_c_mcghee_racism_has_a_cost_for_everyone?language=en
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Media: Lecture"The difference between being 'not racist' and antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi from TED2020There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. This is a good place to start to get a quick overview on what it means to be Antiracist; then we recommend reading Kendi's book on the subject. https://www.ted.com/talks/ibram_x_kendi_the_difference_between_being_not_racist_and_antiracist?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=social&utm_source=sms
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Media: PodcastOn Being with Krista Timmett: "Talking About Whiteness"A Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. In "White Debt," Eula Biss reflected on whiteness in America through the metaphor of buying a house — how surprisingly comfortable debt can be in the right circumstances, and how easily we forget that we don’t actually own what we feel we possess. She helpfully opens up words and ideas like “complacence,” “guilt,” and something related to privilege called “opportunity hoarding.”https://onbeing.org/programs/eula-biss-talking-about-whiteness/
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Media: Podcast1619“1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
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Media: PodcastSeeing WhiteScene on Radio is a podcast that tells stories exploring human experience and American society. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and is distributed by PRX....in Season 2, the Peabody-nominated Seeing White, Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explored the history and meaning of whiteness. In addition to the podcast episodes, the website includes a study guide.http://www.sceneonradio.org/tag/season-2/
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Media: PodcastOn Being with Krista Tippett: Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem
In Conversation (July 9, 2020)		A Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. A previous epsiode with Resmaa Menakem (June 4, 2020) has become one of On Being's most popular episodes. Resmaa joins with Robin DiAngelo (White Fragility). Hearing the two of them together is a vital calling to understand our own racial frameworks and take responsibile action. https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-diangelo-and-resmaa-menakem-in-conversation/
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Media: Video"Race in America - A Holy Post Video"Phil Vischer (Veggie Tales) explains post Emancipation Proclamation racism in the US. This video connects the dots through the laws that were passed and the wealth inequality and social issues that we still see today. Transcript with citiations: https://www.holypost.com/post/racism-video-transcript-w-citations?fbclid=IwAR1hW0bPBlyUAPeIOFja923axcczvnP4CQzX5qMQVAS7lmGeRJwlpQ4yTyshttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2611898429058130
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Media: Video"Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses White Fragility"With what she calls “…an intentional, strategic use of humor and relaxation to stay open, air it out and open it up,” expert racial equity facilitator Robin D’Angelo kicks off the book launch for her book White Fragility and offers her theory of white unconscious bias and unconscious racism aka.) “whiteness,” for white people. Anti-Black racism is “state sanctioned organized crime,” says D’Angelo, and white people must do the work of examining themselves to understand their participation in systems of racism. With the wisdom of 20+ years of race dialogue facilitation for educational and corporate institutions, D’Angelo positions herself as a white cisgender woman who is “still and will always be” working-through her own implicit racist biases. From that position she compassionately lays out what she calls the “lynchpins of the new racism” for fellow white people who are unconsciously racist: 1.) the Good/Bad Binary (I’m the good progressive white person/” They” (overt bigots) are the Bad Racists); 2.) Implicit Bias (attitudes and stereotypes we hold, unconsciously); 3.) Individualism (the idea that race doesn’t matter, individuals matter); 4.) Universalism (the erasure of uniquely Black experience and culture); 5.) Internalized superiority invested in the racial order (often unconscious); and 6.) Segregation (investment in systems that hold it all in place.) D’Angelo also looks at white defensiveness in the face of confrontations with this new racism and examines the “tension, anxiety and the charge” that flares up in race discussions that are uncomfortable. Yet, she implores us to engage with racial consciousness raising in order for all of this to evolve. Her question is: How do the narratives of the “progressive” racist function in the conversation about race? She poses that they exempt the person from any part of the problem (“I’m not a racist,); take race off the table (“We are all just human,”); close rather than open the conversation (“I am color blind,” is a closer), and protect the current racial hierarchy and the white position within it. Thus, systemic racism remains embedded in our society and the outcomes of systemic racism don’t change for Black people. This is a video you can watch with peers, friends or family of any age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
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TrainingHow to answer
challenges to BLM and tips for difficult conversations		Includes communication strategies, statements and rebuttals, glossary, advice, and quick statistics. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c8oaAzVCLbKA6qvSjuGZQG-xEb2e55eS1DdiGpFHU6Y/edit?fbclid=IwAR0bY31uzFywEJiqfadchBVMFzGDIETzen4tukrmxzjKUc4FnkKhasKiHvo
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TrainingFree Racialised Trauma E-Course"We can't help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exists." This 5-session free online course is created by Resmaa Menakem. It addresses White, Black, Police and Community Body Trauma.https://culturalsomaticsuniversity.thinkific.com/courses/cultural-somatics-free-5-session-ecourse
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