Resources on Race and Inequality.
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There are all kinds of new resources to help us sort through this issue. Black people are communicating their concerns clearing. This post give video and audio, Civil Rights leaders of today and a foundational speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The 1963 March on Washington defines the question. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads When Al Sharpton told his mother he wanted to be a preacher, he could not have known that he would found the National Action Network becoming a civil rights activist, and television and radio talk show host, a powerful voice speaking truth to power.
In America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis calls on all Americans to repent of the story about race in America that was a lie and write a new American story of the defeat of racism.
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope John Meacham details the life of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis. This book gives important insights into the development of the movement’s quest for justice.
In Between the world and me, Ta-Nenisi Coats writes a letter to his son describing that fear the inhabits the lives of black people growing up in America.
The Water Dancer, a novel by Ta-Nenisi Coats asks the question, “What if memory had the power to transport enslaved people to freedom?” In the process Coats taps into the collective culture, memory and pain of generations of black Americans to offer an alternative history.
In Waking up white and finding myself in the story of Race, Debby Irving tells a powerful story of a nice white woman who “only wanted to help!” Comes to a new understanding of race and her role in it with the help of African American friends.
