Resources

Below are some resources that will help us all to listen and learn. This list is certainly not exhaustive, but is representative of ideas put forth by so many of you who have reached out. 

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Articles
The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine
“The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it,” Brian Masingle, National Catholic Reporter
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?,”  Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Books

• A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America, Shelby Steele
• Discrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sewell
• How To Be An Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• White Like Me, Tim Wise
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum