BLM Initiative : Race Resources

​Racial Equity Tools   is a site that is curated on a  regular basis with up to date resources. 
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/fundamentals/history-of-racism-and-movements/overview-and-timelines

Articles

• The Unlikely Ascent of New York’s Compost Champion
  An ad led to Domingo Morales falling in love with compost. A windfall is helping him spread the word
  
  
• The Sweeping Lie Behind the Buffalo Shooting
  A Princeton professor on the violent consequences of hiding from our nation’s history. Read in The New Yorker: https://apple.news/A11ONnhQGQ16mv1sIkKV7aQ
  
  
• In ‘The Billboard,’ Chicago Journalist Tackles Abortion Rights And Seeks To Portray Englewood ‘As More Than The Headlines’
  The play "The Billboard," by Natalie Moore, deals with abortion rights and race. It was "inspired by real instances of people erecting pro-choice and pro-life billboards." The book is available now and the play premieres at Northwestern University's Wirtz Center in June.
  https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/03/25/in-the-billboard-chicago-journalist-tackles-abortion-rights-and-seeks-to-portray-englewood-as-more-than-the-headlines/
  
  
• How to Hold Each Other Accountable - With Love
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/09/14/cancel-culture-calling-out-accountability
  
  
• A Georgia Restaurant Has a Racist History. What Should Become of It?
  At Aunt Fanny’s Cabin, which closed years ago, young Black waiters sang for white patrons. The community is divided over how, and whether, to preserve the institution’s legacy. (PDF)
  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/us/aunt-fannys-cabin-georgia.html?auth=link-dismiss-google1tap
  
  
• Ministers Sought Prentiss, Not Reverse, Hinsdalean. https://www.thehinsdalean.com/story/2022/04/07/news/ministers-sought-prentiss-not-reverse/4535.html
  
  
• Support and Solidarity on March 31, Trans Day of Visibility: “Give us our roses while we’re still here.”
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/03/31/trans-day-of-visibility-solidarity-support
  
  
• Inhabiting Worlds Where Black Lives Really Matter
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/02/24/where-black-lives-really-matter
  
  
• An old Virginia plantation, a new owner and a family legacy unveiled (PDF) By Joe Heim  — There was so much Fredrick Miller didn’t know about the handsome house here on Riceville Road.
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• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
  
  
• Op Ed by Renaldo Hudson- I Survived Death Row, But I’ll Never Escape It
  
  
• The Gaslighting of America- reflections on the insurrection anniversary from an immigrant person of color.
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/01/06/insurrection-anniversary-justice-in-america
  
  
• Healthmatch: Pandemics- a History of Discrimination.   Racism doesn’t only exist in the workplace or institution. Racism and discrimination do exist even during pandemics. As part of the health industry, we feel that it is our responsibility to provide pieces of information relating to pandemics and racism. We’ve written this content that will provide proofs and accurate data that indeed discrimination exist way before the 1800's pandemic until today’s COVID-19.
  
  
• “Put your money where your mouth is—literally. So if you want to say “Black Lives Matter,” make Black lives matter by investing in Black communities.”
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/11/26/black-lives-matter-la-holiday-shopping-give-back?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20211130&utm_content=YESDaily_20211130+CID_fe2a82d1391d1ef51c5b259bc85d28f1&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the%20full%20story
  
  
• “The Dawn of Everything” confronts deep assumptions about how human society developed from its humble (Indigenous) origins.
  
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/a-new-social-justice/2021/11/15/book-human-history-ancestors?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0GFd1NHV5a1BSDmLW4UcztPoVtLDaApskLapvE8XvuiVGgr6yLhwOJ7eE#Echobox=1637265780 
• Noam Chomsky Talks Climate and Racial Justice
  “A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity’s prospects for emerging into a livable future.”
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/11/09/noam-chomsky-stan-cox-climate?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20211113&utm_content=YESDaily_20211113+CID_ad11be48e916830a9af0d6fcb4a58873&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the

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• How to support Indigenous communities and their allies in healing our planet and moving forward to a post-oil future​
  
  “…What we’re trying to do is create a planet that’s going to be just and habitable for everyone.”
  
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/11/05/indigenous-authors-land-back-climate-justice?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20211112&utm_content=YESDaily_20211112+CID_104057abb61efc22be614b4a9dfdc7d0&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the 

 

• Diwali is festival of light, love, family and culture that is celebrated by Hindus and people of Indian heritage around the world.
  
  How Indian Americans are Making Diwali Their Own
  
  https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/us/diwali-celebrations-second-generation-immigrants-cec/index.html 
  
  
• Community Land Trusts Offer a Path to Housing Justice
  
  “Before the pandemic, close to half of U.S. renters were spending more than 30% of their income on housing. The spread of COVID-19 made the crisis even worse, with 1 in 4 urban families falling behind on rent, and as many 15 million currently facing eviction after the federal eviction moratorium expired in September.”
  
  “”Community land trusts are a tool to help hardworking families to obtain permanently affordable, decent good quality homes,” says Sanchez-Gonzalez. He says that helping families obtain affordable housing is a fundamental building block for a healthy community, and will keep young people from “going down the wrong path to ensure their families can make ends meet.””
  https://yesmagazine.cmail19.com/t/d-l-ajuikdt-vdlykdliy-j/
  
  
• On America’s Residential Caste System—and How to Abolish It
  Author Sheryll Cashin explores the deliberate design elements of racial segregation within cities like Chicago and St. Louis, where predominantly Black neighborhoods are marked by lower income levels, poorer quality education, lower access to employment, greater violence, and more racist policing. And she offers practical suggestions as to how these structures can be deliberately dismantled.
  https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/09/27/book-americas-residential-caste-system?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3L44BkFK7C-ZnKaWrJONA0RzJQR_E35gRheBU_nFqo7-HifGsJhPCZpgY#Echobox=1632773330
  
  
• “The good news? The city has a vast network of organizations already doing the work of dismantling our dangerously biased systems. The great news? While racism and systemic oppression is very complex, we’ve made it quite simple for you to take positive, immediate action.”
  How Citizens and Companies Can Support Antiracism in Chicago (“Not being racist” is simply no longer enough)
  https://www.insidehook.com/article/chicago/support-antiracism-chicago
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• It started with a mock ‘slave trade’ and a school resolution against racism. Now a war over critical race theory is tearing this small town apart.
  By Hannah Natanson
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Nevaeh Wharton was busy with homework one evening in late April when her phone pinged with a warning. A friend had texted to say something disgusting was happening in a private Snapchat group chat.
  
  
• Grieving America on the Fourth of July
  By Jean Neely
  
  I believe America is beautiful. But as our poet-prophet James Baldwin pointed out, one can both “love America more than any other country in this world” and “insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” In fact, love demands honesty, truth-speaking, and open-eyed critique.
  
  We might begin with the work of facing the truth of who we are, of being present to the full reality of ourselves and our country. We need to look squarely at reality, at our own churches and our own souls, and deal with the discomfort or pain of what we find there.   https://sojo.net/articles/grieving-america-fourth-july?fbclid=IwAR2QSHVRUqMtIRUXRBaroUzrVUXzgC9vqHTdf4fQ6-jiWtyexhAJol8t2g4
  
  
• The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness
  By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  “In the past, I generally thought that the problem of white supremacy could be dealt through the sort of broad economic policy favored by [some liberals]. But eventually, I came to believe that white supremacy was a force in and of itself, a vector often intersecting with class, but also operating independent of it.”
  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-we-write/459909/
  
  
• Tough Love For Mediocre White Guys
  “(O)ur embrace of dominance means subordinating people who don’t look like us, which creates an incentive for White men to remain clueless. That’s why (this book)…is not a threat to White guys but a gift, offering the social/political tough love that we need to see society—and ourselves—more clearly.”
  
  
• One hundred years ago this week, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from May 31 through June 1, 1921, deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans and wiped out over $27 million (accounting for inflation) of Black wealth. The white mob looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses. This assault was met by a brave but unsuccessful armed defense of their community by some Black World War I veterans and others.
  https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/tulsa-race-riot/?fbclid=IwAR1-6beulVYetM5bS41c1g-eX_h9egkOMzQo8cutoYzvgkKIK08WHuLLVXg
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• Environmental Activists of Color You Should Know: Young Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color at the center of environmental justice movements are often overlooked. Here are three activists of color who deserve their own spotlight.
  
• 10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How it Works
• There is a debt owed to the the American Descendants of Slavery. And it’s time for the U.S. to pay up."
• ​​White Supremacy as the Form of North American Capitalism from Race Files
• From Anxiety to Authoritarianism 
• ​Hometown Latina Activism: It’s In Her Blood
• The Bitter Fruits of Trump’s White-Power Presidency By Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorJanuary 12, 2021
• Inmates Create Scholarship for student
• Change Proposed to 13th Amendment to End Prison Slave Labor
• Why we must confront the painful parts of us history
• How to Make a Slave
• After the Voting Rights Act, millions turned out
• Long Lines are the New Poll Tax' by Jamelle Bouie
• African Americans can teach white liberals how to cope with their hatred for Donald Trump
• Truth and Redistribution: How to fix the racial wealth gap, end plutocracy, and build Black power

• Dear CDC, Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis, Now
• 89 Racial Equity Resources for Healthcare, Education, and Communities
• To Help Support Black Owned Businesses
• Support These Local Black Businesses
• White Americans Say They Are Waking Up to Racism. What Will It Add Up To?
• What Matters 2020: Structural racism
• Robin DiAngelo: How 'white fragility' supports racism and how whites can stop it  By Sandee LaMotte
• 21-Day Racial Equity
  Habit Building Challenge ©
• Covid-19 and the Collapse of America's Welfare State
• Slavery and the Shaping of Early America
• The Weeping Times Slave Sale
• Inclusivity for an Innovation Mindset by Sara Teppema
• Inviting Inclusivity by Sara Teppema
• Fatima Bhutto on the Surge of Bollywood, K-Pop and Turkish TV
• Are Extremist Hijacking the Internet? NYT
• Nicole Cliffe on Racism at Harvard
• NYT Race Related: When a Hug is not just a Hug
• Government Admits White Supremacist Violence on Rise
• 1619 Project interactive article
• The Great Replacement Theory – NYT
• A Recipe for Reparations
• Students Working for Change in Minnesota
• Nine Testimonies of people Enslaved by Jefferson Davis 
• Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill Delayed
• What Reparations Might Look Like – NYT​
• The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black.
• The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.
• How These Black Playwrights are Changing Theater
• Unchecked Hate Towards Rep Ilhan Omar
• Racial Bias of Photography
• Lebron James Opened a School… it’s Showing Promise.
• The Most Diverse Generation NYT
• Updating Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Paintings NYT
• I’m not going to be your black best friend today – 
• Overlooked Obituaries from the NYT
• When We’re Surrounded By Blackface
• 7 Powerful Stories of Race from 2018
• The Sugar Coated Language of White Fragility
• Race Related: Memories of Prejudice for Jewish Man
• Woman Taking DNA Test Finds Out She’s Not Black
• Witness to Ugly Moment in History Dies at 103
• Looming White Minority Makes Demographers Nervous
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• How Black Neighborhoods Have Changed 50 Years After Civil Rights – Brookings Institute
• Hurricanes & Race – NYT Race Related
• Race/Related: Minorities in the Military Open Up About the N.F.L., Kaepernick and Nike
• Why America’s Black Mothers are in a Life or Death Crisis – NYT
• Milwaukee police release ‘disturbing’ video of Bucks player’s arrest
• The History of White Power in America
• Pushblack: Prison Industrial Complex Costs US a trillion dollars
• A Lynching Memorial is Opening
• Remembering MLK on the Anniversary of his death – NYT
• Naomi Klein Lecture – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
• Black with (Some) White Privilege
• The Sugar Coated Language of White Fragility – Huff Post
• What Kind of White Person Do You Want to Be? Chauncy DeVega
• Shootings in Englewood Decline – Chicago Tribune
• Racism and Right Wing Rage: the Politics of White Nostalgia 
• No Rights Which White Man is Bound to Respect
• From Prison to PHD
• It’s Not Just the South-How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy
• What I Said When My White Friend Asked For My Black Opinion on White Privilege
• The Coming Integration
• This is Why Cops Keep Killing Black People
• Race Related: History of the Confederate Flag NYT
• Race Related: Loving Family after the Supreme Court
• Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs
• Race Related – Superheroes NYT
• Lasting Power of Emmett Till’s Image
• Upworthy Story of Good Parenting
• What Words Make You Cringe? Race/Related NYT
• 5 Truths About White Privilege for White People
• NYT Race/Related Blog site
• The Green Book
• The Movement For Black Lives Platform
• From White Guilt to White Responsibility
• Times: Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group
• The Day I Discovered I was A Racist
• Brookings Institute: 15 memos About Race
• Ta Nehisi Coates: Letter to My Son
• 11 Major Misconceptions about the Black Lives Matter Movement
• The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – Ta Nehisi Coates
• Police Violence is Not Inevitable
• 11 Ways America Avoids Taking Responsibility
• *Ta Nehisi Coates Woke Me Up: lessons on Race, Atheism, and My White Privilege
• bell hooks: Buddhism the Beats & Loving Blackness
• Why White People Feel Oppressed
• Conservatives and Liberals Misappropriate Black Lives Matter
• What 40 Acres & a Mule Would Be Worth Today
• Don’t Be Like That
• Black on Black Crime
• The Economist: The Cross Blue Line
• Race is Always the Issue
• Why whites don’t understand black segregation
• A Day in the Life of Black Men – Microaggressions
• Ultimate White Privilege Statistics
• White Fragility is Racial Violence
• Why White People Freak Out
• Race: A Gardener’s Tale​

If the very real inequities are to change, if we are to live fully into our principles upholding the worth and dignity of every person and our belief in the interdependent web of existence, we must change – and change is hard.
The following are a collection of articles, videos, books, and movies that are the first step in seeing beyond the reality that the dominant culture believes is the only reality. We must open our eyes to the totality of what is happening around us in order to find the courage to work for a just society for every single person.
It asks us to change – so that the world might change. But do not fear – we can and will do this work as a covenanted community.
​You are not alone.

African Americans may experience more barriers to substance abuse treatment than any other racial group. The reasons for this are vast but we believe that by sharing valuable information, African Americans can learn about the different recovery options available to them and get help.

The resources below are medically reviewed and provide help to African Americans who may be struggling with drug or alcohol misuse:

• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among African Americans - Provides helpful statistics, looks at the differences in substance abuse patterns across the black population, and treatment options to consider.
  
• A Guide to Addiction and Recovery for African Americans - African Americans may experience more barriers to treatment than other groups, this guide can help one become aware of payment options and how to find providers who understand the issues unique to this population.
• Black Underrepresentation in Addiction Treatment - Discusses the idea of ‘underrepresentation’ in more detail looking at common barriers, legal biases and the importance of cultural competency.

UU Voices

• Social Distancing is a Privilege
• Black Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
• The Black Hole in the White UU Psyche
• The Proposed 8th Principle
• BLUU – Black Lives UU
• Unpacking Whiteness – UU World
• Who Are My People? A Black Unitarian Universalist on Selma and Ferguson
• Unpacking Whiteness
• 4-30-17 UU White Supremacy Sunday Rev. Pam Rumancik
• UUA Statement of Support for Black Lives Matter
• Courage for Black Lives Matter: A love letter to white Unitarian Universalists
• The Demon in Daryl Wilson’s Head by Thandeka
• Good Men Project: Black Lives Isn’t a Matter of Whose Matters More
• UUA Black Lives Matter
• The Whiting of Euro-Americans by Thandeka
• MLTS Beloved Conversations

Books & Papers

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Listening to Black Women and Girls: Lived Experiences of Adultification Bias JAMILIA J. BLAKE, PH.D. REBECCA EPSTEIN, J.D.
• Loving!  Sheryll Cashin’s provocative new book Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy is getting a lot of deserved attention – see her recent NY Times op-ed, and this great interview on NPR’s Fresh Air.
• Between the World and Me
• All American Boys by Reynolds & Kiely
• Out of Bondage​
• Learning to be White – Thandeka

History

• Lynching in America
• Frederick Douglass: No Struggle No Progress
• Red Lining Maps
• Slavery’s Long Shadow

​Web Pages

• Antiracist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages
• The 1619 Project
• Black Light: Data for Black Lives
• Dismantling White Supremacy
• Black Light: Afrofuturism
• Racial Equity Tools

Videos / Audio

• Holy Post’s Phil Vischer video on the history of inequality: Race in America
• White Savior Video – Seth Meyer
• Key & Peele: Football Commentator
• Black Memorabilia 
• Nuanced Panel Discussion of Book “Unjust”
• Don’t Cash Crop My Corn Rows – Amandla Stenburg
• 7 Myths about Cultural Appropriation DEBUNKED! | Decoded | MTV News
• Appropriation Vs. Appreciation
• Ta Nehisi Coates – Why There Are Words We Can’t Say
• Wilderness Journey: The struggle for black empowerment and racial justice within the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), 1967-1970
• Tim Wise: White supremacy in the age of Trump
• Tim Wise: Racism, white denial, & the cost of white privilege.
• Adam Ruins Everything – the Suburbs
• Prophetic Resistance Podcast
• Bryan Stevenson; TED talk on Justice
• Dear White People
• I Am Not Your Negro
• How Core Beliefs Work 
• How to Stop Being Prejudiced – Washington Post interview
• Let’s Talk About Whiteness
• Implicit Bias Explained – NYT Video
• Prisons in America- Van Jones
• POV
• Orson Wells: the Affidavit of Isaac Woodard
• White Privilege Glasses
• Calling in Black
• Invitation to Fortification
• Matthew Cooke: Race Baiting 101
• Four #BlackLivesMatter Myths Debunked
• #WhitePeople – MTV Official Documentary
• Black Privilege: Crystal Valentine
• Ta Nehisi Coates: On the Case for Reparations
• For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm: by Ezra Klein
• White Privilege
• Conversation with Black Women on Race
• Conversation with Police on Race
• Why Are We Still Talking About Race?

Self Test

• Implicit Bias Test explained
• Implicit Bias Test on Race

​One concern that is being expressed by many people in vulnerable minorities is that bullies and racists have been emboldened by the rhetoric and behavior of the 45th president. There have been more documented assaults and incidents of racist behavior since Nov 8th, 2016.  SURJ – Showing Up for Racial Justice – released the following resources to help all of us show up for one another and and prepare to deflect and repudiate rude and threatening behavior. Each of us, black, white, brown or any shade in between, need to be an ally to one another and look out for every single person. Do your homework and have a plan in place in case you witness someone being verbally assaulted or disrespected. Better to be ready and never have to use your plan that to find yourself wishing you had said or done something after the event has passed.

• SURJ Bystander Intervention Training from Hollaback: PowerPoint | Webcast Recording
• Hollaback: How to Respond to Street Harassment & A Bystander’s Guide
• NPR All Things Considered: From Bystanders to Upstanders in New York City
• How to De-escalate: 1-page Guide from Casino-Free Philadelphia Direct Action Guide
• Killerfemme: Bystander Intervention Printable Mini-Zine
• DNAinfo: What to do if you Withness a Bias Attack
• Intervention + Deescalation: GREAT List of Readable + Watchable Resources