Antiracism training

Join Pastor Val as she facilitates a weekly antiracism study group Mondays at 1:00 pm. Contact Pastor Val for login info.

We are currently studying A Promised Land by Barack Obama.

Recent studies include…

Kevin Nye, Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness

Richard and Leah Rothstein, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Matthew Vines, God and The Gay Christian: The Biblical Support of Same-Sex Relationships

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Undocumented Americans

Geraldine Brooks’ novel, Horse

Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (rev. ed.)

Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Pamela Grundy, Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns

David Zucchino, Wilmington’s Lie

Rudy Rasmus, ed., I’m Black, I’m Christian, I’m Methodist

Tom Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City

Tim Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Don Lemon, This Is the Storm

Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On

“Systematic Racism in Mecklenburg County,” a report commissioned by Spangler Library

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Black Church