Anti Racism: Learn

Our journey to racial justice as followers of Christ begins with learning from one another. From videos and podcasts to articles and books, we offer suggestions that may be helpful for your personal journey and others.

• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - a discussion with police

• Cracking the Codes with Joy DeGruy

• Talking about Race: a United Methodist Pastor from Ferguson, Missouri

• Sometimes You’re a Caterpillar

• Deconstructing White Privilege - United Methodist Church on Religion & Race

• The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist

• Adam ruins the suburbs

• A Raisin in the Sun

• 13th

• Selma

• When They See Us

• Just Mercy

• Financial Literacy in the Black Community

• Dismantling Racism: A United Methodist Church Resource

• Police Brutality Center

• What is the Black Tax?

• Coach Mike Holloway Shares Personal Experiences

• Shining Gospel Light on our History

• My white privilege: a personal perspective from Gainesville, FL

• Implicit Bias: What is it?

• A United Methodist Church Discipleship Leader’s Perspective

• A Different Set of Rules — a story from the Upper Room

• The Case for Reparations

Especially for Parents

• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - with the Gaines family

• What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race

• Destigmatizing Privilege

• Five Tips for Addressing Racism with Children

• Resources to Honor and Celebrate Black Lives

Books

• White Too Long, Robert Jones

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, Jason Reynolds & Ibram Kendi

• Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown

• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander