RACIAL JUSTICE

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Our Racial Justice Team

Team Co-Leaders
Vicki Anderson
Thom McCurdy

AdministrativeVicki Anderson, lead
Erin Frisch
Thom McCurdy

Church Presence & Worship
Vicki Anderson
Michael Anderson
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​Communication & Information Technology
David Wiggert, lead
Amy Wagenknecht 
Vicki Anderson​

Education
​Sue Kamens, lead
Olga Holden
Thom McCurdy
Cindy Ramsey
Connie Lenkowski

​Advocacy & Outreach
Thom McCurdy
​Jack Guevara

​​Understanding Racism Workshop March 18-19, 2022 ​Cancelled

The March 2022 Lansing area CORE (Communities Organizing For Racial Equality) workshop scheduled on March 18 and 19th has been postponed until the fall. Please watch this space for updates. To learn more, visit www.corenow.org. 

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Singing with Racial Justice

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Monthly Definitions and Podcasts

The Education subteam has created a list of definitions and podcasts to help us learn more about racial justice.  To see more information about this month's definition and podcast, plus a complete list of both current and previous monthly definitions, please visit our ​Monthly Definitions page.

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Racial Justice Team ZoomForum Discussion of Police Reform
March 6 and March 13, 2022

Recommended reading, viewing and podcasts:

March 6

• American Police, an NPR Throughline podcast featuring Prof. Kahlil Gibran Mohammad detailing the historical development of policing in the US.​

March 13

• ​​​The Doll Test video.
• The Kerner Report,  a landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons today.
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.  Learn more..
• Apple Podcasts: Into America: The Essential Kerner Commission Report (31 minutes)​

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Future Book Discussion

• The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby (Book also available in ULC Library).

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The Sharon Bandlow Multicultural and Racial Justice Collection

Follow link to find a complete list of racial justice materials in the ULC Library.

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Book Discussions and Podcasts

Materials for Use with Children

Podcast: The 1619 Project

"1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery. Listen to this podcast series.

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Racial Justice Book Discussions With Folks from our North/West Lower Michigan Synod

TBD

Reading

NYTimes “Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often”

24 Children’s Books to Honor Black History

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Listening

NPR Life Kit, “Talking Race with Young Children”
20 Minute Listen
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NPR Life Kit, “'Raising White Kids' Author on How White Parents Can Talk About Race”
7 minute Listen

NPR Life Kit, “Why All Parents Should Talk with Their Kids About Social Identity”
​3 Minute Listen