Racial Justice Resources
Our Local Resources
The Woodson African American Museum of Florida: https://woodsonmuseum.org/
Black Lives Matter-https://www.BlackLivesMatter.com
Black History Bike Tour https://www.blackhistorybiketour.com
Deuces Live https://www.deuceslive.org
African American Heritage Association offers guided walking and trolley tours afamheritagestpete.com
Tombolo Books Social Justice Book Club: tombolobooks.com/events
Cultured Books Literacy Foundation - First Saturdays at Deuces Corner Park, 833 22nd St S. culturedbooks.org
The Weekly Challenger newspaper (hard copy and online) the weekly challenger.com
Center For Health Equity https://hereatthecenter.org/
Black-owned business directory: https://www.greenbooktb.com/ Green Book Tampa Bay
Read the 2021 Study: Examination of Historical and Modern-Day Impact of Structural Racism on the Lives of Black People in the City of St. Petersburg, Florida __________ https://cms5.revize.com/revize/stpete/Residents/Current%20Projects/docs/FINAL%20_Structural%20Racism_%20November%2022%202021.pdf
Books on Racial Justice:
Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action by Shelly Tochluk
BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation, edited by Takiyah Nur Amin and Mykai Slack
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism & Racial Inequality in Contemporary America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Black Pioneers in a White Denomination (about the UUA) by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna Stern
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy: Black Power and Unitarian Universalism by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
We Will Not Cancel Us; And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Race Matters by Cornel West
Critical Race Theory, An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor by Cyndi Kernahan
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment, edited by Manish Mishra-Marzetti (former minister at UUSP) and Jennifer Nordstrom
The Darkness Divine: A Loving Challenge to My Faith (by a Black, female UU minister) by Kristen L. Harper