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Original Workshop Reading List

2-1/2 minutes Reparations for the 1921 Tulsa, OK race riot On UUA Website https://www.uua.org/action/statements/reparations-1921-tulsa-ok-race-riot

 

9 minutes Which black Americans should get reparations? By Wesley Lowery Washington Post Article https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/which-americans-should-get-reparations/2019/09/18/271cf744-cab1-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

 

8-1/2 minutes Washington Post Article Why the racial wealth gap still persists, 150 years after emancipation By Calvin Schermerhorn https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/why-racial-wealth-gap-persists-more-than-years-after-emancipation/

 

13 minutes Rocess, Glenn. Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow are Doable: It’s the right thing to do Medium Article https://medium.com/our-human-family/reparations-for-slavery-and-jim-crow-are-doable-12dae015a43c

 

2-1/2 minutes Menasce Horowitz, Juliana. Most Americans say the legacy of slavery still affects black people... 2019. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/most-americans-say-the-legacy-of-slavery-still-affects-black-people-in-the-u-s-today/

 

9 minutes Hassan, Adeel. No easy answers on reparations. New York Times, June 22, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/business/economy/reparations-slavery.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_rr_20190523&login=email&nl=race-related&te=1

 

9 minutes Hassan, Adeel, and Jack Healy. America has tried reparations before. Here’s how it went. New York Times, June 19, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/reparations-slavery.html?module=inline

 

79 minutes Coates, Ta Nehisi, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic, 2014 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

 

8-1/2 minutes 2020 Democrats race policy, New York Times By Astead W. Herndon https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/politics/2020-democrats-race-policy.html?te=1&nl=race-related&emc=edit_rr_20190523

 

3-1/2 minutes Georgetown students agree to create reparations fund, New York Times, April 12, 2019 By Adeel Hassan https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/georgetown-reparations.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

 

9 minutes What reparations for slavery might look like in 2019 By Patricia Cohen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/business/economy/reparations-slavery.html

 

6-1/2 minutes UUs lead as riot survivors receive payments in Tulsa UU World Article https://www.uuworld.org/articles/riot-survivors-receive-payments-tulsa

 

25 minutes Humiliation and hostility: A riot lives on UU World Article https://www.uuworld.org/articles/humiliation-hostility-riot-lives

 

16 minutes Reconciliation as a Spiritual Discipline UU World Article https://www.uuworld.org/articles/reconciliation-as-spiritual-discipline

 

238 pages, book Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. 2017.

 

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Original Workshop Video Resources

8 minutes video What 2020 Democrats think about reparations. PBS News Hour, April 12, 2019 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-2020-democrats-think-about-reparations

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10 minutes video Can reparations help right the wrongs of slaver. PBS News Hour, Aug. 1, 2019 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-reparations-help-right-the-wrongs-of-slavery

 

3-1/2 minutes video Reparations and why America’s past still shapes the present. PBS News Hour, June 19, 2019 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/reparations-and-why-americas-past-still-shapes-the-present

 

3 hrs. 20 minutes, video House panel debates the idea of reparations for slavery. PBS News Hour, June 19, 2019 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-house-panel-debates-idea-of-reparations-for-slavery

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2 hrs. 20 minutes, video, Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop, Town Hall Seattle, Jan. 23, 2017

Resources Mentioned in Workshop 12-14-19

The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940

Countering the Master Narrative

Authors: Murray, Alana D.

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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America

Book – Non-fiction. By Lerone Bennett Jr. 1988.
A detailed history and analysis of African American history in the United States.

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Dr. Joy DeGruy

https://www.joydegruy.com/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome

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The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander

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13th Amendment, documentary film

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