Pretrial Fairness Act Discussion | Tuesday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Guest speaker, Lauren Lowry, Pretrial Fairness Organizer with the People's Lobby
Moderated by Lauren Jiles-Johnson
Every year, a quarter of a million people cycle through Illinois jails. Most of them are incarcerated not because they pose a threat to their community but because they can not afford to pay a money bail. By reducing the role of wealth as the determining factor for pretrial incarceration, the Pretrial Fairness Act will increase equity by reducing the number of people incarcerated unnecessarily.
Financial Impact Analysis Google Form to Receive Further Information Bail Reform: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Panel Discussion of the film Same God | Friday, July 10, 2020
Guest speakers, Dr. Larycia Hawkins, Linda Midgett, director and Dr. Michael and Patti Mangis
Moderated by Wendy Mospan
Courageous Conversations: Reckoning With The History of Slavery | April 2022
Resources for Understanding Systemic Racism
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
*National Book Award Winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
*Nautilus Award Winner
How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
*New York Times Bestseller **This works well as an intermediate book, as a follow-up for instance once readers have been introduced to the depth and breadth of racism in American political, economic and social structures.
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas In America by Ibram X. Kendi
*National Book Award Winner
**This is an intellectual history. For a social history that brings together ideas with social, economic and political practices that built racist structures in the US, see Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview by Audrey and Brian Smedley.
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Moore
*A focused look at segregation in Chicago.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
*New York Times Bestseller
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
*On the United Methodist Women’s reading list. For deeper learning, sign up for a free online companion class through the UMW.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla Silva
*A very good introductory book.
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
NPR’s Throughline Podcast: American Police
NPR’s Throughline Podcast: Mass Incarceration
On Being with Krista Tippett: Eula Biss: Talking About Whiteness
On Being with Krista Tippett: Bryan Stevenson: Finding the Courage for What's Redemptive
Resources for Exploring Systemic Racism and the Church
This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity and Christian Faith Eds. Robert Priest and Alvaro Nieves
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice by Brenda Salter McNeill
*Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity by David Swanson
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi: Methodists, Murder, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Neshoba County by Carol V. R. George
The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era by Morris L. Davis
Mindful Entertainment
13th, a documentary from director Ava DuVerna
Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele
Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler
The Hate U Give, directed by George Tillman, Jr
Whose Streets
Judas and the Black Messiah
Resources for Racial Justice | Youth and Children Resources
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work, by Tiffany Jewell (Middle School/High School)
MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination (Middle School/High School)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly (Young Adult)
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, by Glory Edim (Young Adult)
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Young Adult)
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration, by Jacqueline Woodson (Children)
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Martin Luther King III.
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
How to Fight Racism Young Reader’s Edition by Jemar Tisby
Let’s Talk About Race, by Julius Lester, illustrated by Karen Barbour (Children)
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, by Jen Johnson, illustrated by Sonia Sadler (Children)
