Anguish

Topics Discussed:

• *Breaking News* Trump Press Conference

• George Floyd Murder & Ongoing Protests

• Covid-19 Questions Answered with Michelle Becker

• Benediction (@prayersfromterry)

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We’ve listed a lot of resources here, but would love your suggestions as well. Please comment with additional resources that you’ve seen and found helpful regarding racism in America.

Episode Resources:

• Why the CVS Burned (Slate)

• 5 Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts (KatyKatiKate)

• The case for hiring more police officers (Vox)

• Better Policing Can Improve Legitimacy and Reduce Mass Incarceration (Harvard Law Review)

• Private insurance companies can play a powerful role in reforming police practices (Marketplace)

• The Police Can Still Choose Nonviolence (The Atlantic)

• Imagine a world without police. (For A World Without Police)

• What Policing Should Look Like (Reason)

• Community Policing (National Police Foundation)

Talking To Kids About Racism:

• How to talk to your children about protests and racism (CNN Health)

• RESOURCES FOR TALKING ABOUT RACE, RACISM AND RACIALIZED VIOLENCE WITH KIDS (Center for Racial Justice in Education)

• Raising Equity

• George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? (USA Today)

• What Happened to American Childhood? (The Atlantic)

• 'Raising White Kids' Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race (NPR)

Books for Adults:

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right by Lisa Sharon Harper

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman

Organizations doing important anti-racism work in the crime/policing space:

• Equal Justice Initiative

• Restorative Justice on the Rise

• Ohio Justice & Policy Center (Disclosure: Beth chairs the board of OJPC)

• The Sentencing Project

• The Marshall Project

• Community Justice Exchange

People to Follow On Instagram:

• @rachel.cargle

• @lisasharper

• @thestackspod

• @decolonizingtherapy

• @myishathill

• @thenapministry

• @blackbabybooks

• @ckyourprivilege

Additional Resources:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Medium)

• Being Antiracist (Smithsonian)

• Resources to educate yourself on anti-racism (Chic Pea JC)

Suggested Policy Changes (Some of Many):

Reparations:

• The Case for Reparations (The Atlantic)

• Why we need reparations for Black Americans (Brookings)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations (The New Yorker)

• The Case for Reparations (The New York Times)

Eliminating Bail:

• Bail reform, which could save millions of unconvicted people from jail, explained (Vox)

• What You Need To Know About Ending Cash Bail (Center for American Progress)

Stop the school to prison pipeline through eliminate zero tolerance and other disciplinary policies:

• Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline (National Education Association)

• How Can We Stop The School-To-Prison Pipeline? (MST Services)

Become aware of and actively reducing racial disparity in the criminal system:

• Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System (Sentencing Project)