Resources for Racial Righteousness

Below you will find ways to engage in the faithful work of racial reconciliation through watching and reading. Our hope is that this can help you on our journey of learning, growing, and transforming. This is nowhere near exhaustive. Please feel free to messages us with other recommendations. Special thanks and credit to our friends at Sanctuary Covenant Church and Be The Bridge who’s recommendations and resources have inspired the recommendations below, see their full recommendations here (Sanctuary Cov // Be the Bridge).

Watch

• Children

  • Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices (Netflix)

  • Becoming (Netflix)

  • Hair Love (Youtube)

  • A Ballerina’s Tale (YouTube)

• Youth Young Adults

  • The Hate You give

  • Good Trouble

• Adults

  • I Am Not Your Negro (Netflix)

  • Just Mercy

  • The Language You Cry In

  • 13th (Netflix)

  • Growing Up Black (New York Times)

Reading

• Children:

  • Be the Bridge list and guide for celebrating Black History Month with young kids.

  • Henry's Freedom Box (Levine Ellen)

  • When God Made You (Matthew Paul Turner) * a Larson Family fav :)

  • Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins (Carole Boston Weatherford)

• Youth:

  • Be the Bridge list and guide for celebrating Black History Month with kids.

  • March: A comic book trilogy telling the story of the Civil Rights Movement (John Lewis)

  • Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults (Bryan Stevenson)

  • The Underground Railroad: A Novel (Colson Whitehead)

• Adults

  • Reading Lists:

    • Evangelical Covenants Love Justice Do Mercy departments BHM reading list

      • Pastor JD’s highlights from the list

        • Between the World & Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

        • The Very Good Gospel (Lisa Sharon Harper)

        • The Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)

    • Readings on Black History - Be the Bridge recommendations

  • Staff Recommendations

    • Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (Esau McCaulley)

    • Might from the Margins: The Gospel's Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice (Dr. Dennis Edwards)

    • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches (Martin Luther King Jr.)

    • The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James Cone)

    • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 

    • Becoming (Michelle Obama)