Becoming an Advocate
Materials and Actions on Being and Advocate for Justice
We talked several times during our Summer Session about the racial discord in our city and in our country. Several of you expressed interest in learning about things you can do to advocate for social justice in our community.
There are a number of wonderful resources available and we are compiling a list of ways to learn and ways to act. I want to acknowledge the Racial Justice Group at the Episcopal Church of Epiphany in Decatur, and the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan for many of the suggestions that are located here.
Rather than separate documents that you need to open and download, I decided to simply put the resources that I located here on this page. If you have questions or other suggestions, feel free to send them my way.
I have a document with books – including some lengthy descriptions, but it was too long to include in its entirety here. So, if you CLICK HERE – you can download the pdf and print it for your own use.
PODCASTS / AUDIO / VIDEO
Children Will Light up the World if we don’t keep them in the dark – TED Talk
Come Through w/ Rebecca Carroll – WNYC/Rebecca Carroll
Eula Biss — Talking About Whiteness – On Being with Krista Tippet
How Black Lives Matter Changed the News – The View From Somewhere
I Just Wanna Live – Keedron Bryant
Justice in America (2018) – The Appeal
Seeing White – John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed – Joel Thompson
The Meanings of a Word – Gloria Naylor
The Stoop – Leila Day & Hana Baba
Unequally Saved: The Church’s Role in Racism (April 23, 2018) – Lisa Sharon Harper
Why “I’m Not Racist” is only Half the Story – Robin DiAngelo
ARTICLES
(Organized By Last Name of Author or Organization)
White Debt – Eula Biss
Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death is …a Lot – Shenequa Golding
Let America Be America Again – Langston Hughes
A Brief Summary of Race, Racism and Health – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Letter From a Birmingham Jail – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guidelines Adapted from Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel
NYT Dialogue: Policing and Excessive Force – NY Times
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
Barak Obama
The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning – Claudia Rankine
Systemic Racism in the US – The Skimm
When People say, “We Made It Through the Worst” – Clint Smith
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Southern Poverty Law Centre
MOVIES / DOCUMENTARIES
13th (2016) – Netflix – America to Me (2018)
Starz – An Antirace Conversation for All of Us
Dr. Jennifer Harvey
And I Still Rise – Documentary on the life of Maya Angelou
PBS American Masters
Native Son – HBO/Amazon/Vudu/iTunes – Race the Power of Illusion
When Heritage=Hate: The Truth about the Confederacy in
America