Justice & Activism

• Wed, Sept 23 – Oct 28: Courageous Conversations: Racial Justice (6-week series)
  8am & 5:30pm, Wed, Sept 23 – Oct 28
  • RSVP to jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org
  • 6-week series using peer-reviewed curriculum
  • Zoom Link available by RSVP.
• Sun, Oct 4: Racial Justice Advocacy & Learning Group
  7pm – Zoom. 
  • October’s topic – Politics of Language
  • We will strive for first Sunday of every month, using link below, to tackle new topics.
  • Zoom Link available by RSVP.
• Thurs, Oct 8, All Eyes Are Upon Us: Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick Film Screening
  Link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gS5qkrVBhRodnk8ZiLSwE2b-VyG3bkjlw2hZ5_-8n-g/edit
  More info: Mt Washington Valley libraries (with thanks to Conway for initiating and coordinating it) will co-host a Zoom program on October 8th called All Eyes Are Upon Us: Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick. 

RESOURCES
Below are some resources focused on education and engagement around racial justice. Use what you find helpful. What is happening in this nation is complicated, and cannot be simplified into absolutes, binary/dualistic categories, or declarEveryday Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfVUgyEIOIations that make us only “either/or”, “good/bad”, “right/wrong”, “in/out”. Use these resources as starting points for deeper and more comprehensive engagement in our own community.

LIVING BLACK in NH & Mt Washington Valley:

• Article in the Boston Globe Magazine called Growing Up Black in All the Wrong Places (includes NH): https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/15/magazine/growing-up-black-new-hampshire-one-americas-whitest-states
• Guest Column in Conway Sun from David Bellis Bennett about “My Life Matters”: https://www.conwaydailysun.com/opinion/columns/david-bellis-bennett-my-life-matters/article_989ca358-b0b9-11ea-b0b3-df3df873ae2b.html

STARTING POINTS to DISCUSS RACE & RACISM as a FAMILY:

• Smithsonian’s African American Museum of History & Culture Talking About Race. Link: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/race-and-racial-identity
• Sesame Street  Town Hall on Racism for families to watch together to begin or support the conversation in your home.
  Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app/index.html
• National Geographic Talking About Race article. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/in-the-news/talking-about-race/#close
• Article on Talking to Children after Racial Incidents: article with TED Talk links, too:
  https://medium.com/lions-story/talking-to-children-after-racial-incidents-46843a062f27
• National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Link about Teaching Race and Racism:
  https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/teaching-learning-race-and-racism

READING: Collected lists & resources for different ages

• Racial justice library @ JCC: Find many hard copy books / recommended titles on the bookshelf inside the Jackson Community Church’s front entrance. Sign out books and return when done.
• Jackson Public Library’s website  http://jacksonlibrary.org/ and reading lists/borrowing recommendations. See title recommendations on the website.
  • Reading lists  through local library coop: Jackson, Cook, Madison and Conway libraries have shared lists for adults, teens and children within our joint KOHA catalog on books across our collections on race, racism and anti-racism. There is also a list pertaining specifically to children’s books at the Jackson Library on these vital topics.
  • You can email staff@jacksonlibrary.org or leave a voice message at 603-383-9731 if you have requests.
• Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair at the University of South Carolina, has created a list of Anti-Racism Resources for all ages
• NY Times: These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids
• USA Today: Books to Learn More About Anti-Racism
• Embrace Race: 31 Books for Children about Race, Racism, and Resistance

BOOKS to GET YOU STARTED

• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (Young Adult version of the book Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad and Robin DiAngelo
• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (see prologue in 10th anniversary edition for excellent new critique of current trends)
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
• Tears We Cannot Stop : Sermon to White American by Michael Eric Dyson (par)
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
• Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Killing Us Softly (women in advertising – personalizing women and subliminal messages)
• Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Color of Water by James McBride (written from perspective of being bi-racial)
• Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequalities by Alison Marie Behnke
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by  Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele
• A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter by Nikki Giovanni (poetry)
• The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou (poetry)
• Fiction:
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (all works of fiction and nonfiction)
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • On the Come-Up & The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Young Adult novels)
  • Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill (children’s story)
  • Corduroy (children’s book)
• On indigenous people’s experiences and perspectives:
  • Blackfoot Physics by David Peat
  • Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexi Sherman (fiction, Young Adult)
  • An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo (poet laureate)
  • God is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria (and other works by same author)

RACISM

• START HERE  –> MTV’s Racism Decoded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eTWZ80z9EE
• Racism Is for Real. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcSVQJ2h8g&feature=youtu.be
• Everyday Racism by The Guardian. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfVUgyEIOI
• Are You a Racist? Video by The Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5DWa2bpbs&feature=youtu.be
• How to Overcome Our Biases by Vernā Myers. Ted Talk video link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyvbgINZkQ
• The Difference Between Non-Racism and Anti-Racism by Ibram Kendi(video link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5DWa2bpbs&feature=youtu.be
• Racism Has a Cost for Everyone by Heather McGhee. Ted Talk video link: https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_c_mcghee_racism_has_a_cost_for_everyone?language=en

HISTORY of RACE, BLACK EXPERIENCE and RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS in America:   

• START HERE —-> Holy Post’s Race in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUwcs9qJXY
• Watch PBS Frontline episode: A Class Divided about Jane Elliot’s 3rd-grade class in Iowa, and the exercise she used to teach them about prejudice, discrimination and implicit bias, by segregating blue-eyed and brown-eyed children. Link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/
• Netflix’ I Am Not Your Negro features links between Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements through the work and words of James Baldwin, featuring the lives of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, and Medgar Evers. Link: https://www.netflix.com/title/80144402
• How Society has Broken its Social Contract on Black America by Trevor Noah (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyPy9vdA_s
• Trevor Noah & Kimberly Clarkon Black Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1k9APedIUY
• Bryan Stevenson’s Changing America’s Racial Narrative (video). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPUmQfo3B8
• Microaggression Examples from New Hampshire Conference of the UCC (article/PDF)
• Racism on 3 Levels by Dr. Camara Jones. Framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. Link to PDF/article: https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/practice/resources/equitylibrary/docs/jones-allegories.pdf
• Holy Post’s Race in America #2: Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-yun74BJEc
• Selma (movie) about Civil Rights movement. Buy or rent on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abkka8Vf2_M
• Memorial Services for Congressman John Lewis (civil rights activist). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGBE7CLl_Y
• The Hate U Give (movie – fiction) based on the book by Angie Thomas. About a young black woman’s struggle to speak out when she witnesses the death of an unarmed friend killed by local police. Buy/rent on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXy0H-EZR5s.

SLAVERY:

• START HERE –> 1619 Projectby Nikole Hannah-Jones forNY Times(videos and articles). Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
• PBS’ Slavery by Another Name (movie) A film based on Douglas Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Video link: http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/
• Why Is This Happening? Examining slavery’s legacy with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi with Chris Hayes (interview transcript & video). Together they examine the 400 year legacy of slavery in America. Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/examining-slavery-s-legacy-nikole-hannah-jones-ibram-x-kendi-ncna1085646
• Slavery in America by History (website with videos). Link: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
• Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North. Vimeo rent on demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tracesofthetradea

WHITENESS & WHITE PRIVILEGE:

• START HERE –> MTV’s Privilege Decoded:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYpvV3eRhY
• Robin DiAngelo On Deconstructing White Privilege (video): https://vimeo.com/147760743
• Scene On Radio‘s Seeing White. A series on the history of whiteness as social construct in America. Link: http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
• People Talk about White Fragility with Dr. Robin DiAngelo (video). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&feature=youtu.be
• White Privilegeby Tim Wise: https://vimeo.com/channels/126106/7908057
  • 3:09 mins: The Erasure of Race in Politics & Culture
  • 13:21mins: White Denial
  • 26:18 mins: Unburdened by Race
  • 33:05 mins: Creation of Race
  • 42:24 mins: Privilege & Pathology
  • 53:41 mins: Guilt & Responsibility
• White Savior: Racism in the American Church. Movie (documentary). Link to Amazon access: https://www.amazon.com/White-Savior-Racism-American-Church/dp/B07ZS6B9FB

JUSTICE, INCARCERATION & POLICING:

• Netflix’ 13th. Movie/documentary directed by Ava DuVernay offers documentary with scholars, activists and politicians to analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom since the 13th amendment. Link: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice TED Talk by Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy. Link to TED Talk video: https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on Policing (we ask too much of policing): Policing & Coates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2Rs105_o4
• Steve Locke’s I Fit the Description
• Get Home Safe: 10 Rules for Survival (created to educate young people of color if stopped by the police).
• The Newest Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (article). Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/sunday/criminal-justice-reforms-race-technology.html
• None of Us Deserved Citizenship by Michelle Alexander (article). Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/opinion/sunday/immigration-border-policy-citizenship.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmichelle-alexander
• Trevor Noah on Police Brutality & Systemic Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YknhztcrURY&feature=youtu.be
• John Oliver on Policing on Last Week Tonight (warning: contains explicit language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
• Trevor Noah’s Dominos of Racial Injustice (edition of The Daily Show – video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c
• PBS’ Slavery by Another Name (movie) A film based on Douglas Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Video link: http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

ACTIVISM & BEING an ALLY:

• START HERE –> Activism vs Silence (youth-created film on taking a stand): Local Jackson resident’s daughter & classmates’ video to bring awareness and inspire action. Video link: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBEheGtgreR/?igshid=14zrs1qs8opt0 
• How to Be a Good Ally (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0
• The Difference Between Non-Racism and Anti-Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5DWa2bpbs&feature=youtu.be
• It’s hard to understand antiracism without understanding what it means to be racist by Ibram X. Kendi panel discussion (video). Link to full video (interview)
• How to Be an Interrupter: A White Person’s Guide to Activism by Aaryn Belter. Link to article: http://www.nhcucc.org/uploads/documents/conference-ministries/justice-witness-ministry/Racial%20Justice/How%20to%20be%20an%20interrupter-1.21.16.pdf
• Sojourner article on For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies. Link: https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies
• Seven Steps You Can Take Right Now from Global Citizen. Link (caution: activism group/political affiliations: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/how-to-support-racial-justice-black-americans/
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Resources for White People by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein, May 2020. Recommended reading list link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic
• Specific activism idea: Equitable Dinners Lift Every Voice with Dr Camara Jones. Video link: https://vimeo.com/410211983

COMMUNICATION, CONFLICT RESOLUTION & LANGUAGE:

• START HERE –> Microaggressions (video):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_85JVcniE_M
• Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Luvvie Ajayi. TED Talk video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijH4UAqGD8
  Luvvie Ajayi isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker. In this bright, uplifting talk, Ajayi shares three questions to ask yourself if you’re teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down — and encourages all of us to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable.  
• How to Apologize (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xJXKYL8pU&feature=youtu.be
• Identity/diversity language (video) Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBLHMIZRH7w  
• Identity/diversity language (video) VIdeo link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTr-uucstU
• Nonviolent Communication (website): https://www.cnvc.org
• Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk video): https://www.ted.com/search?q=The+danger+of+a+single+story
• Words have power (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg

EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, REDLINING, VOTER SUPPRESSION and More:

• Public schools in America and kids in poverty by Kandice Summer (TED Talk): https://www.ted.com/talk/kandice_sumner_how_america_s_public_schools_keep_kids_in_poverty#t-274
• Good Hair by Chris Rock (documentary on culture and economics and racial identity). Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QhOoanzh60
• Jim Crow of the North by PBS (video). Link: https://www.pbs.org/video/jim-crow-of-the-north-stijws/
• COVID stats. Article: https://apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-equity/racism-and-health/racism-declarations
• How communities of color are being affected by COVID: Article. Guide
• Citizen Times’ Article that addresses Local Model for Reparations:https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/14/asheville-passes-reparations-black-residents-historic/5438597002/.
• Maps: 
  • Redlining Maps (mapping inequality). Link: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58
  • Incomes maps geographically and racially. Link: http://www.justicemap.org/
  • Income and racial justice maps by Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/income-and-racial-inequality-maps-2015-5
  • Racial Dot Map. Link: http://demographics.coopercenter.org/Racial-Dot-Map/?q=demographics/Racial-Dot-Map
  • Census Maps. Links: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.html

INVESTING
in nonprofits & community needs identified by crowd-source funding:

• Investing in nonprofits: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=8032&utm_source=General+Mailing+List+%28Users+%26+Donors%29&utm_campaign=bfc3f8ea3b-July_Newsletter_Vol.2_Donors_NonDonors_7.21.20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b21df0343b-bfc3f8ea3b-102078641
• Donors Choice re partnering with classroom (NH-based classroom): https://www.donorschoose.org/?rf=external-email-2020-08-gatesmatch_gv-donor&utm_source=email&utm_medium=external&utm_campaign=gatesmatch&utm_content=gv

CHURCHES and FAITH COMMUNITY RESOURCES:

• Mindful‘s Conversation on Mindfulness, Bias and Racial Justice. Link: https://www.mindful.org/a-conversation-on-mindfulness-bias-and-racial-justice/
• New Hampshire Conference of United Church of Chirst (UCC): 
  • Theological Roundtable on Racial Justice (video). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczYc42Y1Rw&feature=youtu.be. 
  • NH UCC Racial Justice Mission Team: website. Sign up for their emails with recommendations on programming and engagement.
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery by Rev Otis Moss III’s from Trinity UCC in Chicago
  • Q&A from Rev Otis Moss III’s sermon (sermon link above)
• “I Need to Talk to Spiritual White Women about White Supremacy” blog entries, read here:  part 1 & part 2
• UU/UCC‘s Curriculum: Racial Justice & White Privilege curriculum (the curriculum used for our Courageous Conversations series with the local library) with resources from the Racial Justice Mission Group
• United Church of Christ: Sacred Conversations to End Racism (SC2ER), a Restorative Racial Justice Journey curriculum created to address and dismantle racism within the Christian Church and society. The study guide and resources offer lessons to dispel myths of white skin and dominant culture supremacy.
• ELCA Southeastern Synod hosted Recorded webinar: Becoming the Body of Christ – Condemning White Supremacy
• ELCA Talking Together as Christians about Tough Social Issues
• Biblical Advocacy 101 – Booklet from Christian Reformed Church
• How Black Lives Matter Changed My Theology from Sojourner
• NH Council of Churches. 

PUBLIC POLICY BODIES
that are exploring and shaping equity initiatives and conversations in New Hampshire:

• Governor Sununu’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report
• Business NH Magazine article on creating an inclusive state
• Endowment for Health’s NH Advancing Health Equity for Racial, Ethnic and Language Minorities
• NH Listens: Carsey School of Public Policy