Resource Collective
We are learners here. We hold space for education, conversation, and the Holy Spirit to lead us into truth and grace. As we learn to love where we live, we do so by building bridges. This is why we make introductions and build relationships. This is how we engage with our culture and bring about change that God wants to bring to our local communities.
“When we lack historical understanding, we lose part of our identity. We don’t know where we came from and don’t know what there is to celebrate or lament. Likewise, knowing our history, it can be difficult to know what needs repairing, what needs reconciling.” (Latasha Morrison, Be The Bridge)
I’ve worked with friends and family to bring us a Resource Collective. This is a growing list. As you scroll through, consider bookmarking this post as a reference. Forward it to a friend. It will be very clear we are readers in our family, hence the huge collection of books! I suggest you take one learning resource at a time. Take notes as you learn and process. I share about creating an online learning document here.
Every image has a link that takes you to the resource. Please add your suggestions in the comment section. Include the link and use the following KEY to label the resources.
Key:
(K) In our family, this is kid-approved.
(S) We have watched/read and suggest.
(R) It’s on our list, but as of this posting, we haven’t consumed the content, yet recommend based on strong trust of a friend.
Movies
Just Mercy (S) (K - our kids have seen this; it was emotional for them; they are glad they watched it)
13th documentary(S)
Ruby Bridges (K, S)
The Hate You Give (S, Kavita read it as an assignment in her 6th grade charter school curriculum)
Harriet (K, S)
Selma (S)
*Every image has a link that takes you to the resource.
YouTube
Bishop T.D. Jakes and Carl Lenz (K, S)
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (K, S)
Dr. Anita Phillips and Christine Caine (S)
Jane Elliott and Jimmy Fallon (K, S)
*Every image has a link that takes you to the resource.
Books
Port Chicago 50 (K, S, Recommended by our SF School District teachers)
Two Miserable Presidents (K, S)
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (S)
Young People’s History of the United States (K, S, Recommended first by Dr. Lucretia Berry)
The Color of Law (R, Recommended by Nona Jones)
All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger (K, S, Recommended first by Dr. Lucretia Berry)
Disunity in Christ (Recommended by Nicky Gumbel, vicar at Holy Trinity Brompton, London)
Soul Care in African American Practice by Barbara Peacock (Recommended by Emily P. Freeman)
The Other Side (audio) (K, S, Recommended by Bea Moraza)
Something Happened in Our Town (audio) (K, S, Recommended by Bea Moraza)
White Awake (S)
Be The Bridge (S)
Insider Outsider (S)
Roadmap to Reconciliation (S, after reading this, a 2.0 version has been released)
Human(kind) (S)
A Sojourner’s Truth (S, author is a friend of mine)
The Third Option (S)
*Every image has a link that takes you to the resource.
Study
What Lies Between Us (S)
Race, Class, and The Kingdom of God (Recommended by a friend who is going through this course with her church community: Church of the City, NY)
Be The Bridge (S)
*Every image has a link that takes you to the resource.
Music
Letter to the Free lyrics
Woke by LeCrae lyrics
Set Me Free by LeCrae lyrics
Jon Batiste story and website
Stories
Meet Franklin.
Click the image and read the story about a school teacher who wrote a letter to Peanuts comic creative Charles M. Schulz about a significant racial change.
Meet Mr. Rogers.
Click the image and read the story about Mr. Rogers and Officer Clemmons speaking up about racial inequality.
Walk the Wanderer.
On the south side of Jekyll Island, Georgia, is a walking memorial to the hundreds of Africans who arrived on the last slave ship to America “a half-century after Congress banned the slave trade.”
*Every image has a link that takes you to the resource.
Websites
https://rosievillodas.com/resources-for-talking-about-racism/
Podcasts
coming soon. welcome suggestions.
imbd.com photo cred for movies
amazon photo credit for books
youtube photo credit for youtube