Resources to Turn to in These Times Undoing Racism
Our 8th Principle
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
Books
The first step toward lasting change is productive discussion – a book for both BIPOC and White allies – powerful and compassionate.
American History from an Indigenous and enslaved peoples’ perspective.
Read Across Rhode Island Book 2022
A “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
The provocative story of how Black labor helped to create and sustain the wealth of the white 1% throughout American history.
The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women
Read Across Rhode Island Book 2021
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
“… a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'”
“A vital, urgent, stirring, beautifully written book . . . a compassionate road map out of our present troubled moment.”
Honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life.
Brooks guides us past two barbed-wire-encircled arguments (‘the police are racist and unnecessary’ and ‘get rid of a few bad apples and all’s fine’) to a radically better way of staying safe.
Videos
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and the Case for Reparations Discussion
From NonProfit Quarterly, Feb. 22, 2021
1 hr. recording
A Framework for Reconciliation – Providence 1 hr. recording
Under Mayor Jorge O. Elorza working together, a team of city and state historical institutions has crafted a comprehensive narrative for public education, public interpretation, and future policy-making efforts.
Ibram X. Kendi speaks about his book, How to be an Anti-racist.
This three part series can be accessed on PBS Passport or rented from a local library.
First Peoples Rhode Tour
Submttted by Loren Spears, Director Tomaquag Museum
Native Voices, PBS Series Native America
in partnership with Tomaquag Museum created these three short films
A profound conversation with activists Ruby Sales and Brittany Packnett Cunningham, moderated by Rev. Tracy Blackman in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection on the Capitol.
Articles
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
From Black Lives UU
We — those of us at the Movement for Black Lives Convening, along with other Black UUs — created this document to present to our faith the 7 Principles of Black Lives.
A Matter of Truth Documents the struggle of African American and Indigenous people’s equal rights in Providence, RI from 1620-2020 by the RI Black Heritage Society and the 1696 Heritage Group and RW University. PDF document.
Slavery in RI Complete Series Now Online
Submitted by
Johnnie Rodriguez
Miscellaneous
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SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.
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Advancing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Cultures Worldwide
“James Baldwin’s Shadow” from NPR’s Throughline Podcast
ELIJAH
The reparation conversation has long been part of Black music
NPR: 5 minute listen
KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS T.A.S.K. Forums
In case you missed …
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Recorded Live
Submitted by Etta Zasloff