Love Mercy: Becoming an Ally – There are seven activities for the week. Please review the item type, title, source, and duration of each, and then click the buttons to access the Week 2 materials. 

Bible Study

• Curriculum – “Facing Racism 1 : Biblical Imperative to Antiracism”
• Organization – PC(USA): Presbyterian Mission
• Duration – 15 minutes

Worship

• Sermon Title – “Social Justice & Reconciliation Inaugural Lecture: ‘Just Jesus'”
• Preacher – Rev. Dr. Brian Blount
• Duration – 50 minutes (sermon starts at 34:24 and ends at 1:23:00) 

Read

• Article – “White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement”
• Author – Robin DiAngelo
• Duration – 7 minutes

Listen

• Audio – “‘Soul Sister: A Look Back At The Fraught Attempt At Empathy”
• Recording by Sarah Kate Kramer
• Duration – 12 minutes

Watch

• Video – “Holy Post: Race in America”
• Recording by Phil Vischer
• Duration – 18 minutes

• Video – “Getting Called Out: How To Apologize”
• Recorded by Francesca Ramsey
• Duration – 9 minutes

Act

• Call to Action – Diversify Your Social Media Feed: Follow Black Voices. You might consider following:
  • Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary
  • Morehouse College
  • Black Lives Matter Atlanta
  • MTV Decoded
  • Rev. Dr. J Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk PCUSA
  • The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership
  • Racial Equity Institute
  • National Center for Civil and Human Rights
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • TheConsciousKid
• Duration – 20+ minutes

Acting Justly: Examining the Criminal Justice System – There are seven activities for the week. Please review the item type, title, source, and duration of each, and then click the buttons to access the Week 3  materials. *Indicates explicit language or content.

Bible Study

• Article – “Facing Racism 3 : PC(USA) and Racial Reconciliation”
• Organization – PC(USA): Presbyterian Mission
• Duration – 15 minutes

Worship

• Sermon – “Reforming the Criminal Justice System”
• Preacher – Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock
• Duration – 50 minutes (Lecture and documentary conclude at 56 min.)

Watch

• *Video – Just Mercy – Based on the book
• Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the book by Bryan Stevenson
• Duration – 2 hours, 17 minutes

Watch on Netflix and other streaming services.

• Video – “Let’s get to the root of racial injustice”
• Recorded by Megan Ming Francis
• Duration – 20 minutes

Listen

• Audio – 1001 New Worshipping Communities Interview, Season 5: Episode 2
• Featuring Kosha Tucker & Sara Hayden
• Duration – 30 minutes

Read

• *Article – “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”
• Author – Ibram X. Kendi
• Duration – 10 minutes

Act

• Call to Action – Call or email your senator to express your concerns about racial inequality in Georgia.
• Need a template? Before you vote, research candidates’ positions on issues concerning racial justice.
• Duration – 20+ minutes

What is Good: Connecting Race, Health, & Poverty – There are seven activities for the week. Please review the item type, title, source, and duration of each, and then click the buttons to access the Week 4  materials. 

Bible Study

• Article – “Facing Racism 2: Envisioning a New Way of Life Together”
• Organization – PC(USA): Presbyterian Mission
• Duration – 15 minutes

Worship

• Sermon – “June 3, 2018: Sunday Sermon”
• Sermon by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
• Duration – 41 minutes

Listen

• Audio – “How To Be an Antiracist”
• Recorded by Brene Brown and Ibrim X. Kendi
• Duration – 60 minutes

• Audio – “The Code Switch Podcast “(Pick any episode: You might consider these on: COVID-19, health, and housing)
• Provider – NPR
• Duration – 30-45 minutes

Watch

• Video – “How Racism Makes Us Sick”
• Recorded by Dr. David R. Williams
• Duration – 17 minutes

Read

• Article – “How Moderates Failed Black America”
• Author – David Brooks
• Duration – 5 minutes

Act

• Call to Action – Support local black-owned restaurants (find another list here and here) and other businesses.
• Duration – 20+ minutes

For Children Ages 0-5

• Anti-Racist Baby Board Book by Ibram X. Kendi
• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

For Children Ages 3-8

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• How To Explain Racism to Kids: A Town Hall from CNN and Sesame Street (22 minutes) by CNN and Sesame Street

For Children Ages 5-8

• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
• My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Christine King Farris
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

For Children Ages 9-11

• Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood by James Baldwin
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

Resources for Parents

• Social Justice Resources from The Children’s Community School
• Raising Race Conscious Children Blog by Sachi Feris
• Anti-Racism Resources for Parents and Kids from Healthline Website
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

Book suggestions from Miriam Moore-Keish’s anti-racism books for kids

Suggestions from Miriam Moore-Keish’s anti-racism book recommendations for kids:

For Youth Ages 12-17

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi, et all
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds & Ibrahim Kendi

Resources for Youth Parents

• Anti-Racism Resources for Parents and Kids from Healthline Website
• Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators from Oakland Public Library
• Books and Resources to Help You Raise Anti-Racist Children from the Brightly Editors
• Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police A YoutTube Video from Cut (5 hours 30 minutes)

Listen as Rev. Robby L. Carroll and Kay Stewart, M.Ed. consider walking humbly and living the questions of racial justice with a commitment to grow and see beyond our perceptual and cultural limitations.