Spiritual and Faith-Based Resources on Racial Justice and Anti-Racism
This is is a starting place. If you have additional faith-based or spiritual resources or other suggestions to add to the list, please contact the Tucker Center, tucker.center@dartmouth.edu.
Books/Articles
A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in any Moment by Spring Washam
Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community and Your World, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear Church: A Love Letter From A Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in America by Lenny Duncan
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga
I'm Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
"On Being a Good Neighbor" Strength to Love by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Othering and Belonging: An Embodied Spiritual Practice" by John A. Powell in Deep Times
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens et al.
"Religion and Race" by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming our Communities through Mindfulness by Rhonda Magee
"The Souls of Poor Folk" (Poor People's Campaign Report, April 2018)
Reconciling All Things and series from the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School
Additional reading lists from campus partners:
Dartmouth Library Research Guide: Anti-Racism Resources
Learning about Race and Identity through the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
Racial Justice & Wellbeing Resource Guide from the Student Wellness Center
Podcasts/Videos
A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum: Where Do We Go From Here?
Prophetic Resistance Summit keynote by Rabbi Sharon Brous
Race and Healing—The On Being Project, see especially: Imani Perri on the intersection of law, race culture and literature; writer Ta-Nehisi Coates; theologian and civil rights activist Vincent Harding; and angel Kyodo Williams an esteemed Zen priest and the second black woman recognized as a teacher in the Japanese Zen lineage
The Beautiful Struggle Understanding Racism and Transforming Words into Deeds by Ruha Benjamin, Association for Baha'i Studies, 2019
"The Spiritual Work of Black Lives Matter" by Patrisse Cullors and Robert Ross
The Weaponizing of 911 Calls against the Black Community organized by CAIR with Dr. Kameela Rashad of the Muslim Wellness Foundation
Organizations involved in social justice and anti-racism from a faith perspective:
- Be'Chol Lashon
- Bend the Arc
- Faith in Action
- Faith Matters Network
- IMAN (Inner-City Muslim Action Network)
- Jewish Multiracial Network
- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
- Lion's Roar
- Network Advocates for Catholic Social Justice
- Moishe House
- Muslim Anti-Racist Collective
- Muslim Wellness Foundation
- Poor People's Campaign
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
- Revolutionary Love Project
- Sapelo Square
- Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice
- The Episcopal Church, "Racial Reconciliation"
- The Sky Is Ours: Resources for Self-care for Black Muslims
- United Methodist Church Awakened Life Curriculum
- United Church of Christ (UCC)
- Unitarian Universalist Spiritual Practices for Social Justice