Up-to-date resources
For the latest resources on racism and our world, visit the Beloved Community Committee’s public Google Drive folder here. You can also find the resource packet materials shared with Committee chairs for use with their committees here. The October and November packets contain info and activities about the 8th Principle. They would be appropriate for all congregants looking for additional information. The folder is updated monthly with additional committee resources.
Recommendations for Further Study
Books
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Locking Up Our Own by James Forman, Jr
- Towards the Other America by Chris Crass
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yoval Noah Harari Barracoon:
- The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- Slouching Towards Tyranny by Joseph Ingle
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- In Between, Memoir of an Integration Baby by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
- Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age by Juana Bordas
- Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue
- Long Challenge: The Empowerment Controversy (1967-1977)
- Call to Selma, Eighteen Days of Witness by Richard D. Leonard
- Been in the Storm So Long by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty … by Sherrilyn A. Ifill
- The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel
- The Ethnic Myth by Stephen Steinberg
Civil Rights Sites
- National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Alabama)
- Living Legacy Project (tours and more)
- National Civil Rights Museum (at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis)
- Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum (near Wallace, Louisiana)
Resource from Chris Crass Workshop on How White Congregations Can Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
- “Towards the ‘Other America’: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter” , by Chris Crass (Note: This book is available from several sources. The link here is to the Chalice Press website, which has a free PDF version available through a short sign-up form.)
- Worship Collections on Black Lives Matter, UUA.org
- Sure, Whites Are Privileged-but Not Me Personally! by Tom Jacobs
- When Addiction Has a White Face by EKOW N. YANKAH NY Times Op Ed
- Building the Beloved Community Sermon (2008) by Fred Small
- Diversity Efforts Help Congregations Thrive by Donald E. Skinner
- ‘Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people’ by Claudia Rankine
- The Meaning of Serena Williams On tennis and black excellence. by Claudia Rankine
FILMS
Building a Multicultural Congregation
- Welcoming Resistance: A Path to Faithful Ministry by William Chris Hobgood
- Dancing on Live Embers Challenging Racism in Organizations by Barb Thomas and Tina Lopes
- Black Pioneers in a White Denomination – stories of pioneering black ministers in Unitarian Universalism by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
- The Arc of the Universe Is Long Unitarian Universalists, Anti-Racism and the Journey from Calgary The recent history of the UUA journey toward becoming an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural movement. by Leslie Takahashi Morris, James (Chip) Roush, Leon Spencer