Racial Justice Resources

Updated February 2021

Are you looking for ways to learn more about racial justice? The Prince of Peace leadership recommends these resources to help you learn about and fight racism with grace, gentleness and persistence. Let’s put our faith into action as we listen, learn and actively engage in anti-racism.

 

Groups

• POP for Justice Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/popforjustice/
• Be the Bridge Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/beabridgebuilder/
• List of local local social justice organizations to support – Minnesota Monthly

 

Next Steps

• Background Reflections Activity (pdf): This document includes a list of many individual life experiences and situations that are usually beyond our control as children, but when put together in various combinations, these factors can powerfully impact our lives as we grow up. You will notice that these questions address not only race, but also other characteristics that expose some groups to discrimination such as gender, sexual orientation, and social class.
• Increase Diversity in the Workplace: A study from Northwestern University found that even if there are applicants who are people of color in the interview pool, white applicants are 2.5 times more likely to get hired in the end. Yet companies with gender and racial diversity in the leadership team are 33% more likely to be industry leaders in profit. If you are in a position to make or influence hiring decisions, you can help increase diversity in the applicant pool by recruiting at a Historically Black College or University and making sure that the people who make the final hiring decisions have been trained in up-to-date non-discriminatory hiring practices.

 

Resource on how to speak up for racial reconciliation when you encounter racist attitudes at work, school, or anywhere

• Six Steps to Speak Up: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/publications/speak-up/six-steps-to-speak-up

 

Ways to Support Businesses owned by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC):

• List of Black-Owned Restaurants in Minneapolis
• EatOkra app (find restaurants owned by BIPOC anywhere in the USA)
• WeBuyBlack search engine
• 180 Black Businesses to Support

 

Podcasts

• Dr. Dwight Radcliff on Black Pain (Fuller Theo. Seminary Podcast)
• Speaking of Racism
• Black Like Me with Dr. Alex Gee
• Scene On Radio series: Seeing White

 

Books

• 13 Books by Black Authors That Explore Race in America
• 17 books by black authors that are shaping our conversation about race
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You – Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin Diangelo
• So You Want To Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
• A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota – Sun Yung Shin
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism – Bell Hooks
• America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis
• Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man – Emmanuel Acho

 

Resources For Parents

• Bookshelf Challenge – As a family, look through your children’s books. Make one pile of books with main characters who are the same race as your children. Make a second pile of books with main characters who are a different race or ethnicity from your children. (Leave all the reference books, fantasy, wildlife, and other books without human main characters on the shelf.) Notice which stack is bigger. Is your family reading about a wide variety of both people who look like you… and people who do not? If not, to help make sure that your children learn that people of all races and ethnicity have wonderful and valuable stories to tell, check out our list of recommended books for children: 37 Children’s Books To Help Talk About Race | 70+ BIPOC Children’s Books To Add To Your Library | List of Children’s Books for Talking with Kids about Race
• Something Happened in Our Town – Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin – also on YouTube
• Resources for Children to Talk About Racism – Colorful Pages
• Website: How to Help Kids Build Racial Literacy
• 4 Tips for Talking to Kids and Teens about Racism and Social Unrest
• A video statement from StuMin’s “Do Something” Creator: Why Are We Talking About This with Students?
• Video: RACE Exhibit, Science Museum of Minnesota (parents and older kids)
• Family films featuring thoughtfully-written BIPOC Characters: Akeelah and the Bee (2006), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020), Soul (2020), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018), Black Panther (2018, older kids), Hidden Figures (2016, older kids)

 

Articles/Blogs

• First, Listen. Then, Learn: Anti Racism Resources for White People – Forbes
• How To Work With Your Own Privilege – Dr. Yvette Erasmus
• Black Rage in an Anti-Black world is a Spiritual Virtue – Sorjourners
• One Murder of Many: Subverting White Privilege to Save Black Lives – Sorjourners

 

Websites

• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking About Race – Smithsonian
• 158 Resources to Understand Racism in America – Smithsonian Magazine

 

Films/Videos

• 115 Best Black Movies of the 21st Century
• Proverbs 8: A Sermon in Verse (11 minutes) – Sojourners
• Uncomfortable Conversation With A Black Man – YouTube series with Emmanuel Acho

 

These are just a few of the many resources that address the issue of racial justice. Please let us know in the comments if there are other resources you have found helpful.