As a church, we are compiling “end racism” resources. Have you found a book, an article, or a video helpful? Please send it to Office@PrincetonUMC.org and we’ll try to include it here as soon as we can.
A. BOOKS
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Laila F Saad
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin Diangelo. Beacon,
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
B Articles and blog posts
- “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014
- “How White Managers Can Respond to Anti-Black Violence,” by Michael W. Kraus, Yale Insights
C. Films, Videos and TV shows
- Stonebridge Conversation with Michele Tuck Ponder, John Powell, and Rhinold Ponder, facilitated by Ingrid Reed. Members of Princeton UMC talk about what they’re doing to end racism with the Stonebridge community
- Confronting the Lies That We Tell Ourselves and Each Other The Rev. Lukata Mjumbe, Senior Pastor at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church, leads the discussion sponsored by NIOT (Not In Our Town).
- 13th (Ava DuVernay examination of the U.S. prison system Netflix offering for free on YouTube)
- How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time, (Baratunde Thurston TED Talks)
- Descendants‚ (Washington Post African American Video History Series)
- Crime + Punishment‚ (A documentary look at NYPD quota policy on YouTube)
- 11 Movies that Confront American Racism‚ (Recommendations from Vox)
- The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States‚ (YouTube)
- “Racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people. Ibram X. Kendi:
- The Help (film) – Wikipedia
- When They See Us
- Just Mercy (available to rent for free in June)
- Dear White People (Netflix series)
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Clemency
- Fruitvale Station
- I Am Not Your Negro
D. Speeches and Courses
A three-session racial literacy program by Ruha Benjamin, sponsored by Not in Our Town Princeton.
E. Songs; Poems
A. Songs
‘In the Ghetto’ by Elvis Presley
‘Dear Mama’ by Tupak
B. Poems by Maya Angelou; others
“Give me liberty or give me death …”
F. United Methodist Church resources
Princeton UMC’s Guide for five day prayer vigil to end racism
F. Organizations
Resources studying systemic bias compiled by Not in Our Town Princeton.