We Keep Learning (Part II)

But wait, there's more! Our volunteer community had a lot to share about what books and resources have made a difference for them in understanding the historical context of racial injustice. If you haven't seen it, check out We Keep Learning: Part I. 
 
We are continual learners who strive to connect others to resources that our board, volunteers, and staff are finding helpful in that quest.  We are currently reading, following, and listening to:

Brynn:

• "Here is my syllabus for my CCP African American History course"

Haley:

• https://www.todaysparent.com/family/books/kids-books-that-talk-about-racism (as the link says, resources for talking with kids about racism)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

John:
 
Films
Amazing Grace  (based on the origin of the hymn and the fight to end the British slave trade)
Amistad (based on the famous 1839 rebellion on a slave ship and the aftermath)
Almos’ a Man (based on Richard Wright’s short story; PBS American Short Story Film Series)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines)
Do the Right Thing (written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee)
I Am Not Your Negro (documentary based on an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin)
 
Essays
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, especially the title essay
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Eve Fairbanks, “The ‘Reasonable’ Rebels,” Washington Post, 8/29/2019
 
Autobiography
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Malcolm X with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (also Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X)
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (also the film)
Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry
 
Short Fiction
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Langston Hughes, The Best of Simple
 
Novels
Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and Beloved
Ernest J. Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
Nnedi Okorafor, The Binti Trilogy: Binti, Binti: Home, Binti: The Night Masquerade
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
 
Poems
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred
Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
 
Experiences
Seeing the signs for “White” and “Colored” as a child traveling in the South with my parents
       in the 1950s
Teaching in the Xavier University E Pluribus Unum Program decades ago
Listening to African American faculty and students at Xavier over the years
Taking the 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge from the Cleveland YWCA in
        2019
Docenting and leading discussions at Harriet Beecher Stowe House