The following resources were utilized for the participants of East Ohio’s zoom study “Race Matters - What Can I Do?”.

• Audio

  • Interview of Robin DiAngelo & Resmaa Menakem:  “Grappling with our Whiteness”

  • UMW Faith Talks, Episode “Emotion and Anxiety”

• Video

  • “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”

  • “America After Charleston”

  • Baldwin-Buckley race debate still resonates 55 years

  • Growing Up Poor In America

  • “The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Requiem for Ahmaud Arbery” by Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity Church

  • “How to be anti-racist” with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on MoveOn

  • “White Co-Conspirators -The Conversation White People Need to have with White People” Scarritt Benett Center

• Article & Op/Ed & Blog

  • Former Hospital Security Guard Returns As Rotating Medical Student

  • “Mental-health leaders: We must end pandemic of racism”

  • 12 charts show how racial disparities persist across wealth, health, education and beyond: When people talk about systemic racism, they mean systemic: impacting institutions, policies and outcomes across all aspects of Black Americans' lives. (Mabinty Quarshie, N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Anne Godlasky, Jim Sergent, and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY11:06 a.m. EDT June 18, 2020)

  • “What is BIPOC?”

  • “The Ballad of Botham Jean”

  • Breonna Taylor: Louisville officer to be fired for deadly force use

    • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53111709

    • https://www.nbcnews.com/video/breonna-taylor-s-death-how-a-26-year-old-black-woman-was-killed-by-police-91363397756

    • https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/usa-all-50-states-fall-short-of-international-standards-on-police-use-of-lethal-force/

  • “75 Things White People Can Do” by Corinne Shutack

  • “America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us: The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying” by Adam Serwer

  • “9 Reasons Why acting in Solidarity for Racial Justice is Preferable to 'Allyship'"

  • “Let's Talk About Racism in America” by Holly Christensen, Beacon Journal, June 14, 2020

• Document

  • Contradictions For White People in Racial Justice Work

  • Timeline of Slavery laws & status

  • GCOOR's calendar program "30 days of Anti Racism"

  • How to Make a Difference in the Fight Against Racism

• Fact Sheet

  • Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups (July 24, 2020).

  • Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity (Sofia Carratala & Connor Maxwell;  May 7, 2020).

• Statement & Resolution

  • Black Lives Matter: Psychologists Take a Stand Against Racism

  • Resolution 2020-01: A Call for East Ohio Methodists to Address Racism in our Churches & Communities

  • General Board of Church and Society and General Commission on Religion and Race’s Statement On the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

  • United Methodist Women Urges Members to Resist Racism in Hearts, Homes, Communities and Country

  • Statement of CEOs of Both APAs & of NASW: We Must End the Pandemic of Systematic Racism

• Website

  • Resource for basic racial justice education

• West Ohio’s Reading List