Online Resources

History

• The History of Racism in America - from Smithsonian Magazine

• Webinars from the Boarding School Healing Project to learn the history of American Indian Boarding Schools in the U.S.

• Standing Rock Syllabus

• What is systemic racism? From Race Forward, 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The 1619 Project

• A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising (language warning) from The Root

• Resource guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment

• Learn about Juneteenth - for individuals and families

• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston

• Racial Equity Resource Guide from the Kellogg Foundation

• Iowa and the Underground Railroad from the State Historical Society

• Harriet Tubman

• Interactive Digital Map of Indian Boarding Schools from NABS

Healing

• Conversation Guide from the National Day of Racial Healing

• Interrupting Racism: A technique

• Black Lives Matter Meditation for healing racial trauma

• Ally + Accomplice Meditation for Cultivating an Anti-Racist Mindset

• Living Room Conversations: topic guides and a methodology for having healing conversations about difficult topics

Addressing racism in your organization

• Assessing your organization

• Resources to Help Organizations Advance Race Equity at Every Step

• Dismantling Racism resource book for social change organizations, workbook

Justice System Reform

The Curriculum is a 15-week free public education course based on the report, The Prison Industry: How it Started, How it Works, How it Harms. Through this course, we hope to relay a strong understanding of the prison industry and a framework to imagine the world without it.

Faith and Race

• Becoming Beloved Community: The Episcopal Church's Long-Term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice

• Beloved Community StorySharing Guidebook

• Guide for Researching the Effect of Slavery on Church Life and African Americans: a guide developed by The Episcopal Church to help churches and dioceses collect, document, and analyze information relative to the complicity and benefit the Church and its members have derived from slavery and its aftermath.

• Blog: A Way Forward: Reflections, Resources & Stories Concerning Ferguson, Racial Justice & Reconciliation

• The Church Awakens: African-Americans and the Struggle for Justice

• Union of Black Episcopalians

• Seeing the Face of God in Each Other: The Antiracism Manual of the Episcopal Church

• Videos from Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice

• Faithful Conversations about The 1619 Project

• Resource list from The Episcopal Church

• The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing

• Faithful Voices for Racial Justice - A Project of Interfaith Alliance of Iowa

Raising Anti-Racist Children

Building Resilience & Confronting Risk in the COVID-19 Era: A Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Radicalization guide for parents, educators and caregivers from the Southern Poverty Law Center