Resources 

• Vision, Mission, Approach and Values
• Touchstones
• The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding)

Movies

This is list of the films viewed by our Movie Circle. To learn more about our Movie Circle, click here. 

• "Amazing Grace" - Documentary: A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
• American Son: An estranged couple reunite in a Florida police station to help find their missing teenage son.
• "An American Story-Race, Amity and the Other Tradition": Documentary from the National Center for Race Amity and Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Awardee, Dr. William H. ‘Smitty’ Smith, Ed. D. comes “An American Story – Race Amity and the Other Tradition.” A film that tackles racism through friendship and collaboration.
• Black or White: A surprising look at a family raising a gifted biracial child.
• Brian Banks: A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system. 
• Harriet: The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. 
• If Beale Street Could Talk: A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit. 
• Imitation of Life (1934): Unable to cope with racism, a daughter deserts her hard-working mother to pass as white.
• Just Mercy: World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
• Long Night's Journey into Day: A documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation process used in South Africa after apartheid ended.
• Mr. Church: A very gifted man shows the meaning of radical love.
• Motherless Brooklyn: A small detective agency becomes involved in an enormous redlining scheme.
• Philadelphia: A lawyer sues for wrongful termination as he struggles with AIDS.
• Sally Hemings( A&E documentary, 2000): A look at the complicated life of Sally Hemings, sister-in-law and concubine to Thomas Jefferson.
• Same Kind of Different as Me: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
• Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker:  The film stars Octavia Spencer and chronicles the incredible story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first female African American self-made millionaire. This film is available on Netflix with 4 episodes of about 50 minutes each.
• Selma: The spark that lit the flame for civil rights when television made visible the brutality of racism.
• Tapped: This film examines the financial and ecological impact of our bottled water industry, including the toxic byproducts of manufacturing plastic water bottles, streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube, iTunes, Apple TV and other streaming services.
  
• The Best of Enemies: Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
• The Birth of a Nation (2016): Depicts an historic event that has almost been wiped out from Virginia's history: the 1831 slave rebellion led by enslaved Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia.
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution: A documentary on the legacy of the Black Panthers, and the overwhelming disinformation campaign they faced.
• The Defiant Ones: Two convicts escape a prison transport and learn to work together to avoid recapture.
• The Fight for America's Public Land: This Public Trust Feature film explores the threats facing our public lands from Alaska to Minnesota. A member of the Gwich'in Indian Nation, Bernadette Demientieff is profiled as she fights to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain, the Porcupine Caribou Herd, and the Gwich'in way of life. Also featured is Juanita Vero, owner of one of the oldest ranches in Montana. Protecting the Boundary Waters in Minnesota is also included. Free on Patagonia via YouTube.
  
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco: A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
• The Social Dilemma: Tech experts sound the alarm on the dangerous human impact of social networking.
• The Tuskegee Airmen: The brave men who fought for the right to die for our country, yet got no recognition nor thanks when they returned.
• Uncorked: Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.
• Voices of Fire: The new gospel musical documentary, executive produced by Pharell Williams, is an incredibly joyful competition. Anyone who likes "American Idol" will enjoy this new infectious series that highlights not only the singers' instruments, but their inspiring stories that got them to the stage. Just like "Idol" and "The Voice," both the contestants and the judges make the show a hit. Oh, and did I mention that the voices they found are heavenly?
• What Men Want: A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts. 
• What the Health: A controversial film which critiques the health impact of meat, fish, eggs and dairy product consumption on ourselves and our planet, free on Netflix.
•  

Want more movies to watch? Please take a look at this list as well. 

Videos
In addition to films we also have several videos to assist with your learning. Please click here to view them.

Articles 

We have several articles to help you with your learning. Please click here to view them. 

Books

You can also read the books read and discussed by our Book Circles. To learn more about our Book Circles, click here. 

• A Colony In A Nation by Chris Hayes
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Brotherhood by Anne Westrick
• Color of Law:  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Conduit by Jon Goode
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in American Cities by Matthew Desmond
• Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories by Ellen S. Lavine
• Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade by Sharon Leslie Morgan and Thomas Norman DeWolf
• How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
• How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slaery Across America by Clint Smith
• Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in USHistory by Thomas Norman DeWolf
• Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Leading from the Outside by Stacey Abrams
• Mighty Justice: My life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
• Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
• Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGury
• Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
• Richmond's Unhealed History by Ben Campbell
• Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Sisters In Arms by Kaia Alderson
• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• The Brownsville Texas Incident of 1906 by Lt. Col. (Ret.) William Baker
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Home Place: Memoir of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by Drew Lanham
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Organ Theives by Chip Jones
• The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anothony Ray Hinton
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail by Coogan, Belton and Black

Want more books to read, please take a look at this list as well. 

Websites

https://reparations4slavery.com/    -  A portal designed for white Americans to help them better understand the true history and impact of slavery, the nature of institutional racism and how their families fit into the puzzle. It also provides ways and opportunties where they can begin to repair the damage.