From time to time, the pastors at 1st UMC will mention resources available to help you expand on the themes from the sermons. Please take a look at the list below and check out some of the books, websites, etc.
SERMON "EXTRAS"
Anti Racism Resources
Helpful Websites and Links
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech The Other America
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letters from Birmingham Jail
Books on Anti Racism
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
(Sarah led an online small group study on this book.)
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Burning House by Anders Walker
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald Takaki
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisii Coates
Topic Specific Books
Poverty; Housing
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Police Violence; Mass Incarceration
Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill
Education
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Education;Discrimination
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Segregation; Housing; Redlining
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Voter Suppression
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Integration in East Tennessee
This Promise of Change by JoAnn Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
Documentary Films
The Clinton 12: A documentary by Keith McDaniel