Essential Partners, the successor organization to what was the Public Conversations Project, has published a free dialogue guide for groups seeking to do good work in dismantling racism. The guide is available from their website.

The organization Dismantling Racism Works has put their entire workshop workbook online for free. It’s a really rich and useful set of resources, and a gift to those of us doing this work.

The American Friends Service Committee held a several session e-course on radical faith during the late summer of 2020. They have posted all of their webinar presentations and other materials at their website. This is a great resource to engage along with others. Use it to spark discussions, lead learning, and so on.

September 8 and 9, 2020 are days of strike on the part of scholars across higher ed in support of racial justice. The resources will live on after these days: #scholarstrike website, #scholarstrike youtube, and further resources specific to a theological institution.

Ordinarily we only blog about media pieces that otherwise don’t fit easily into the bibliography which, let’s face it, is heavily print oriented. But a new book just out — From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Educators and Public Ministry — is such a powerful resource that it’s worth highlighting here.

Written by nine African American scholars of religious education, this book weaves together critical pedagogy, theological reflection, and personal/communal experiences into a compelling exploration of religious education. Its clear focus on racial justice is highly effective, and the book is both an accessible read and full of footnotes and other connections to a variety of literatures.

It is a book worth engaging in multiple courses and spaces far beyond religious education.

The Abolitionist Teaching Network has just released a guide to abolitionist teaching and social&emotional learning. While it’s oriented to the K12 setting, and is not explicitly religious, the guide is very thoughtfully done and has much resonance for racial justice work.

Macalester College’s Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship recently hosted a webinar that was both deeply engaging and very insightful. It was led by the Dean of the Institute, Donna Maeda, and featured Duchess Harris, Professor, American Studies; Bill Hart, Professor, Religious Studies; Brian Lozenski, Associate Professor, Educational Studies; Kenjus Watson, Postdoctoral Fellow, San Francisco State University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Occidental College.

This month we have lost so many key figures from the Civil Rights Movement, C.T. Vivian and John Lewis among them.

This morning the NYTimes published an essay John Lewis wrote to be shared on the day of his funeral (which is today).

Read it. Please.

We continue to lament the ever increasing rise of police violence in the US. This project visualizes the names of more than 28,000 fatal encounters with police nationwide.

The Association of American Law Schools is sharing a resource created by law school deans, that offers both books/music/art and so on, related to engaging in anti-racist work, but also a useful institutional self assessment set of questions.