Racial Justice
OCSJM’s Top Picks for Racial Justice Parish Resources
Open Wide Our Hearts
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Racism Resources for Small Groups
JustFaith Ministries offers 8-week modules designed for participants who are willing to wrestle with hard questions about their faith and social action.
1) Faith & Racial Equity: Exploring Power & Privilege 2) Faith & Racial Healing: Embracing Truth, Justice, and Restoration Take action with these Interfaith organizations: 1) Naugatuck Valley Project 2) Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance 3) Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut |
Click here to view current film and book resources on the topics of racism and racial justice.
View Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
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Click Here to view 10 Things Everyone should Know About race.
Check out these other organizations and resources:
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"When we begin to separate people in our thoughts for unjust reasons, when we start to see some people as "them" and others as "us," we fail to love. Yet love is at the heart of Christian life."
-Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love, A Pastoral Letter Against Racism
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Some suggested books and articles
This is by no means an exhaustive list for reading about history and/or race in the United States. The most inclusive list would be very long and would even include fiction. There are some very powerful fiction stories which include historically accurate descriptions of attitudes, places and people. While I have read most of the books on this list, it also includes some books that I have yet to read, but their importance has been impressed upon me by readers whom I trust.
BOOKS
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas Blackmon
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown and Hampton Sides
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglas
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years
Paul Howard Takemoto
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
BOOKS
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas Blackmon
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown and Hampton Sides
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglas
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years
Paul Howard Takemoto
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
Articles