Friday, June 12, 2020

Articles We Need to Read for this Moment #BlackLivesMatter

As I was thinking about what we need to inform and learn in this critical time, the authors of some amazing books have written some articles we need to read:

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, legal scholar and the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Her article is:  America, This is Your Chance (NY Times)

Bryan Stevenson, a civil-rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, is also the author of a memoir, “Just Mercy,” which was made into a feature film last year.

His article is: Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests (New Yorker)

Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a professor and the director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist

His article is: The American Nightmare (The Atlantic) and this at The Undefeated.

The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas is dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God.

Her article is: A Christian Call for Reparations (Sojourners)

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