Guiding Verse
“I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.” ~Acts 10:34-35
Mission Statement
As followers of Jesus, we are called to eliminate racism and dismantle the systems that support it. Since we care so deeply about our Greenwood community, we will start in our own church.
Reading List
Video:
- Verna Myers’ TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyvbgINZkQ&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
Article:
- A Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Books:
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time
- Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower
- Brown, Austin Channing. I’m Still Here
- Degruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks
- Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth
- Fleming, Cynthia. Soon We Will Not Cry
- Jackson, George. Soledad Brother
- Jackson, George. Blood In My Eye
- Joseph, Jamal. Panther Baby
- Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist
- Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Newborne, Burt. When At Times The Mob Is Swayed
- Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law
- Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography
- Ture, Kwame, and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
- X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X