The ELPC Facing Systemic Racism team invites you to learn about the history, systems, institutions, and politics that brought us to this present moment.
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“The Case for Reparations” – The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates explains how 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal, and 35 years of racist housing policies shaped America and calls for a “collective introspection” on reparations.
“The 1619 Project” is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
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13th – A Netflix documentary by director Ava DuVernay that provides thought-provoking analysis of the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom from scholars, activists, and politicians.
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On Being Podcast: “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence” – Krista Tippett interviews therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem about his work to understand old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” He helps explain why vulnerabilities and inequities laid bare by the pandemic have fallen hardest on Black bodies.