The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 2018 Statement on Racism "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love", is a challenging statement for our reflection and action. The following USCCB resources are excellent tools for the implementation of this document.

• The Call to Address Racism in our Hearts and our Communities
• Racism and Voting 
• Racism and Education
• Racial Economic Inequality
• Racism and Housing
• Racism and Employment
• Racism and the Criminal Justice System

America has a kairos moment right now. Indeed, a chance has arisen for broader social engagement in the response to racism, an opportunity to consider how we shall bring into practice the demands of Isaiah 58. The road ahead is uncertain, and the right path may be unclear (cf. Mt 7:13-14), but we must seek to exit from this “dark night of injustice," (Gustavo Gutiérrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells).

Prayer Resources

• Requiem for Black Children of God - Archdiocese of New Orleans
• Prayer Service for Justice and Peace - Duquesne Campus Ministry
• Prayer for Racial Healing - Catholic Charities USA
• Prayer for Racial Healing in Our Land - USCCB
• Stations of the Cross - Overcoming Racism - USCCB
• An Examen to Address Daily Racism - Jesuit USA Midwest Province

• Articles

• "The Racial Divide in the United States: A Reflection for the World Day of Peace"  2015 Pastoral Letter and Study Guide with Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D., S.T.D
• "The Assumption of White Privilege" by Fr. Bryan Massingale in June 2020 in his formative text: Racial Justice and the Catholic Church
• "How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change" by Barack Obama
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - The Center for Social Impact Strategy
• "A Letter from the only African-American Felician Sister" by Sr. Desiré Ann-Marie Findlay
• "The sound of gravel, the feeling of drowning, the chilling effects of racist acts" by Brian Broome
• "An Interview with Bryan Massingale"
• "White Privilege" by Richard Rohr, OFM
• "How To Be An Anti-Racist" by Ibram X Kendi
• "White Fragility - Why It Is So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin Diangelo
• "Segregated by Design": An examination of how systemic racism affects housing in America
• "Performative Allyship is deadly (Here's what to do instead)" by Holiday Phillips
• "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies" by Courtney Ariel (from 2017, but relevant)
• "I don't need 'love' texts from my white friends" by Chad Sanders
• "Required Reading: A Black Catholic Syllabus"
• "Floyd's Murder Must Bring Change" by the Commonweal Editors
• "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own" by Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. 
• The chapter on Race and Modernity in The Cornell West Reader
• Gay in Nigeria, Black Male in America - Opinion Piece in NY Times
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• Books

  The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
  The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
  The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
  Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
  The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  Between the World and Me - TaNehisi Coates
  Becoming - Michelle Obama

  Videos

• How to Make Spiritual Sense of the Attack on the Capitol: Behind the Story - Amercia Media
• Culture Shock: Who is an "American"? Fr. Bryan Massingale
• Congressman John Lewis: A Legacy of Good Trouble - Virginia Interfaith Center, July 23, 2020
• White Privilege - Virginia Interfaith Center, June 25, 2020
• How the Church Can Combat Racism and White Privilege: A Conversation with Fr. Bryan Massingale - America Media
• Holy Peace - Race in America video by Phil Vischer
• Allegories on race and Racism video by Camara Jones / TEDxEmory
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion video by Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
• Facing an Uncomfortable Truth - Video by Steve Crump 
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Spiritan Soundings on Racial Justice

• Racial Justice in the Spiritan Context by Freddy Washington | English | French
• Racial Justice: Response by Binh Quach | English | French
• Spiritan Town Hall on Racial Justice: A Response by Gary Warner   
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• "One-Liners on Race From the Pope and Other Catholic Officials Won't Do Any Longer" Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp. in Church Life Journal, Sept. 8, 2020
• America and the Question of Race: A Personal Observation by Fr. Lazarus Langbiir, C.S.Sp.
• Black Lives Matter by Carol Serafin
• On the Death of George Floyd by Frs. Binh Quach, C.S.Sp., and Donald S. Nesti, C.S.Sp.
• The Cultural Virus of Racism by Fr. William Headley, C.S.Sp.
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Canadian Anti-Racism Resources

• The Skin We're In: A Year in Black Resistance and Power - Desmond Cole, Doubleday Canada, 2020
• Policing Black Lives: State of Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present - Robyn Maynar, Fernwood Publishing, 2017
• Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada - Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Sydney Marcus Ware, University of Regina Press, 2020
• The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal - Afua Cooper, The University of Georgia Press, 2007
• Celebrating Diversity Isn't enough: Schools Need Anti-Racism Curriculum - Rola Koubeissy
• Unraveling the Interplay Between Diversity and Race in the Canadian Experience - Grace-Edward Galabuzi
• An Interview with Desmond Cole - "I Don't Care if You're Racist. I Care if You're Hurting Me." Olamide Olaniyan
• Racism in Canada Is Ever-Present, But We Have a Long History of Denial - Maija Kappler
• Five Charts that Show what Systemic Racism Looks Like in Canada - Graham Slaughter and Mahima Singh
• Podcast: The Little-told History of Canadians as Slave Owners, Not Just Slave Rescuers
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Resources on Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance in Canada

• Books

• The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King, Anchor Canada, 2013
• Twenty-One Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous People - Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations Press, 2018
• The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy -Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald-Lorimer, 2017
• Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge - Marie Battiste and James (Sakej) Youngblood
• Redskin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Coulthard, U Minnesota P, 2014
• Dancing on Our Turtles Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence - Leanne Simpson, Arp Books, 2011
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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• Videos

  21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph 
• Indigenous Communities, Systemic Racism and COVID-19 - Podcast via This Matters, Toronto Star
• We Were Always Here - Tanya Talaga (2018 CBC Massey Lectures)
• Political Concepts: Resurgence - Leanna Betasamosake Simpson
• Indigenous Canada is a free, accessible, and open online course offered by the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta
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• Articles

• "There have been two Canadas. In this reckoning on racism, both must stand together for indigenous people now" by Tanya Talaga
• "Teaching Truth and Reconciliation in Canada: The Perfect place to Begin is Right Where a Teacher Stands" by Linday Morcom and Kate Freeman
• "Identity Lost and Found: Lessons from the Sixties Scoop" by Raven Sinclair, First Peoples Child and Family Review (2007)
• "Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City" by Tanya Talaga, Briarpatch (2018)
• "Canada Asked for a Report on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. Now It's Ignoring It" by Alicia Elliott
• "Indigenous Place-Thought & Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour" by Vanessa Watts, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (2013
• "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native" by Patrick Wolfe, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 8 (2006)
• "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, Vol. 1, (2012)
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