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Anti-Racism Resources from United Methodist General Agencies
Articles [back to top]
By Charles Allen Wynder, Jr
By Rita Omokha
General Commission on Religion and Race: Moving Toward the Pain
By Erin Hawkins
Lewis Center for Church Leadership: Leading in an Age of Political Polarization
By David R. Brubaker
Medium: How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
By Barack Obama
Psychologytoday: Microaggressions: More Than Just Race
By Derald Wing Sue Ph.D.
The Atlantic: Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.
By Imani Perry
The Effects of Racism on Mental Health: How to Cope
By Dr Karen G. Martínez, MD
The New York Times: Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The New York Times: So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth?
By Brianna Holt
The New York Times: The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited
The New York Times Magazine: The 1619 Project
The New Yorker: An American Spring of Reckoning
By Jelani Cobb
The New Yorker: The Death of George Floyd, In Context
By Jelani Cobb
The Upper Room: A Different Set of Rules
By Michael W. Waters
The Upper Room: An Affirmation of Faith for Trinity Sunday
By Marilyn E. Thornton
The Upper Room: Here Lies Love
By Osheta Moore
The Upper Room: I'm Tired
By Nathalie Nelson Parker
The Upper Room: White Silence is Inexcusable
By Rev. Sidwell Mokgothu
The Washington Post: You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black
By Samuel Getachew
UMC Discipleship: Racism Is Not A Black Problem: White Silence is No Longer A Privilege
By Junius B. Dotson
UMC.ORG: Five tips for addressing racism with children
UMC.ORG: Reflections on Afro-Latinidad
By Andres DeArco
UMC.ORG: Silence is Violence
By Rev. Ali Young
UMC.ORG: Talking about race: UM pastor's tips
UMC.ORG: Ways United Methodists can stand against racism
Church Response [back to top]
Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist: United Methodist leaders offer prayer near White House by Erik Alsgaard
Bishop Moore-Koikoi 'It has to be different'
Bishop Easterling statement
Bishop Ough statement supported by Council of Bishops
Bishop Farr Response Need to be Antiracist
General Board of Church and Society: A Charter for Racial Justice in an Interdependent Global Community
General Board of Church and Society: Civil and Human Rights
General Board of Church and Society: Criminal Justice Reform
General Board of Church and Society: Faith and Facts information cards (Criminal Justice Reform)
General Board of Church and Society: Humanizing Criminal Justice
General Board of Church and Society: Opposition to Racial Profiling in the US
General Board of Church and Society: Racism and Economic Injustice
General Board of Church and Society: Statement on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
General Board of Church and Society: Stop Criminalizing Communities of Color in the United States
General Board of Church and Society: The Social Community: Rights of Racial and Ethnic Persons
General Board of Church and Society: White Privilege in the United States
General Board of Church and Society: White Privilege- Naming past sins and changing behaviors
General Commission on Religion and Race: Addressing the Murder of Mr. Ahmaud Arbery
Judah Smith (Churchome): My Message to White Church Leaders
National Council of Churches USA: Floyd Murder by Police Officer Is an Outrage
Presbyterian Church USA: Facing Racism
Presbyterian Church USA: Facing Racism: A Vision of the Beloved Community
Presbyterian Church USA: Workbook
Religion News Service: A Call to Prayer from The United Methodist Council of Bishops
The Anglican Church: A Letter to Fellow ACNA Clergy
The Episcopal Church: Becoming Beloved Community… where you are
The Episcopal Church: Long-term Commitment to Racial to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice
The Episcopal Church: Telling the Truth, Proclaiming the Dream
The United States Catholic Bishops: Combating Racism
UMC Discipleship: Courageous Conversations About Race
UMC Discipleship: Five Ideas for Stewardship for Churches Seeking to be Actively Anti-racist
UMC Discipleship: Navigating 2 Viruses: Regathering in the Midst of Racism & Pandemic
UMC Discipleship: Sermons on Anti-racism
United Church of Christ: Conversations to End Racism
Rev. Velda Love - Racial Justice
United Church of Christ: Resources
United Methodist Women: Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration
Podcasts [back to top]
Code Switch – DACA and the Life of Dreamers
Code Switch – Why Now, White People?
General Board of Church and Society: How to Work for Justice
By Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause - The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Essential Books [back to top]
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
By Jim Wallis
By Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice
By T. Day
By Ibram X. Kendi
Race: A Theological Account 1st Edition
By J. Kameron Carter
by Emmanuel Katongole / Chris Rice
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
By Ibram X. Kendi
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
By Thomas M. Shapiro
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
By C. Vann Woodward
Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People
By Chris Crass
By Paul Kivel
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
By Robin DiAngelo
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
By Shelly Tochluk
Cokesbury.com Books about Racism and Injustice
Other Books [back to top]
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
by Jacqueline Goldsby
All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blues City
by Ishmael Reed
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
by Daisy Hernandez
Coming to America
by Roger Daniels
Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
by Pamela Newkirk
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney
How Does It Feel to Be A Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
by Moustafa Bayoumi
How The Irish Became White
by Noel Ignatiev
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By Austin Channing Brown
By Layla F. Saad
by Eduardo Galeano
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America
By Jennifer Harvey
By Richard Rothstein
The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
By Fania Davis
The Making of Asian America
by Erika Lee
By Debby Irving
When Affirmative Action Was White
By Ira Katznelson
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by Tim Wise
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By David Zucchino
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black or White
by Frank Wu
Training Resources [back to top]
AORTA- Anti-Oppression Resource and Training: Dismantling Anti-Black Bias Toolkit
AORTA- Anti-Oppression Resource and Training: Anti-Racism Workshop
AORTA- Anti-Oppression Resource and Training: Cultural Appropriation
General Commission on Religion and Race: Online Course – Implicit Bias: What We Don’t Think We Think Workbook
General Commission on Religion and Race: Racial Justice Conversation Guide
Government Alliance on Race and Equity: Tools & Resources
The Episcopal Church: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANTI-RACISM AND RACIAL RECONCILIATION TRAINING
The National DEED Project: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack and Some Notes for Facilitators
By Peggy McIntosh
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: Undoing Racism
Videos [back to top]
“Dismantling White Privilege” with Robin DiAngelo
UMC Bishops united against racism (Bishop Easterling / Bishop Farr)
TED Talk - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
Trevor Noah: The Dominos of Racial Injustice
General Commission on Race and Religion: Video Series Vital Conversations
General Commission on Race and Religion: Real Talk Video Series
Ideas and Plans [back to top]
Alternative Church Model: The Good Neighbor Movement
Belong Church: Anti-Racism Action
Community Renewal: Project Unity
The Revolutionary love Project: #NoMoreBystanders: Resources and Trainings
The Revolutionary love Project: #NoMoreBystanders: Resources and Trainings
Two Rivers Church: Anti-Racism Action
Prayer / Devotional [back to top]
Communal Prayers for Lovers of Jesus and Justice
By Osheta Moore
Discipleship Ministries: Prayers for the Healing of a Nation
General Commission on the Status and Role of Women: No justice. No peace
By Martha Spong