WATCH or LISTEN
Pope Francis and the US Bishops Respond to the Killing of George Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=JiXydrXXGLI&feature=emb_title
Georgetown Dialogue on Racism on Our Streets and In Our Structures
Brene’ Brown podcast with Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be and Anti-Racist
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/
READ
Pastoral Letter on Racism – Open Wide Our Hearts
https://www.scd.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/open-wide-our-hearts.pdf
Study Guide for Open Wide Our Hearts
https://www.scd.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/study-guide-open-hearts-2019-09.pdf
BOOKS
Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy
https://www.npr.org/2014/10/20/356964925/one-lawyers-fight-for-young-blacks-and-just-mercy
Jim Wallis’ book America’s Original Sin
Miles McPherson, Pastor of the Rock Church, San Diego, The Third Option
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/132399.Miles_McPherson
Debby Irving’s book Waking Up White
https://debbyirving.com/the-book/
Books To Help Explain Racism and Protest to Children; The conversation about race needs to start early and keep happening. Read in The New York Times:
https://apple.news/ADfcBJATpR5eNBDACmaaXsQ
Books noted in Commonweal Magazine
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, Dorothy Roberts
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Racial Justice and the Catholic Church, Bryan N. Massingale
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-century America, Ira Katznelson
- The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo
- Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Annelise Orleck