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Resources
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Ice Cream Activism
Those who know me, know I love people, travel and food. One of my favorite foods is ice cream. My favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry's because even before it was a "thing" they have always spoken truth to power. Here is a walk through American history through the eyes of enslaved people and the impact on their descendants.
What We Believe: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/08/slavery-to-mass-incarceration
1619
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Slavery Made America
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery-made-america/373288/
What it Means to Celebrate Juneteenth
https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/06/juneteenth
Jim Crow Laws
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
Interactive Map of Redlining in America
How the U.S. Government Segregated America
SubPrime Housing Lending Impact on Black Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/23/black-americans-housing-crisis-sub-prime-loan
Prison Labor and the 13th Amendment
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/
Angola: A Short History
Black Codes
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes
Why Blacks Have Struggled for Decades to Gain Wealth
Prison Policy: Mass Incarceration
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html
A History in Support of Reparations
Transforming the Criminal Justice System
https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/01/front-end-criminal-justice
7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real
https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real
Netflix: "13th" the Movie
Racism Has Cost the U.S. Economy $16 Trillion
https://www.blackenterprise.com/citigroup-report-racism-has-cost-us-economy-16-trillion-in-20-years/
Knowledge Links
Courageous Reads and Outreach
Recommended Books and Articles
White Awake
Daniel Hill
Reparations Are Past Due
Jeremiah Chapman and Tom Steyer
Unequal
Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau
Dear Emmett Till
Michael Eric Dyson
1619
NYTs Special Report
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Biased
Jennifer Eberhart
Forgive Us
Lisa Sharon Harper
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Time is Now
Stacy Abrams
How to Be an Antiracist
Dr. Ibram Kendi
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Our Separate Ways: Black & White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity
Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell
Stella M. Nkomo
Where to We Go From Here: Chaos or Community
Martin Luther King
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson
Courageous Reflections
Our Courage in History - Inauguration 2021
Faith, Monuments and Black Lives Matter
Courageous Conversation Podcast
In The Matter of Black Lives
Rev. Dr. Jaqueline Lewis
"Speaking Truth to Power - Faith in Action"
2021 Presidential Inauguration Poem by the 1st Youth National Poet Laureate:
Amanda Gorman
2021 Presidential Inauguration Poem by the 1st Youth National Poet Laureate:
Amanda Gorman
The Beloved Community” Dr. Martin Luther King
Courageous Conversation on Race
Diversity Beyond Lip Service: Inclusion Coaching
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