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Home | Resources | United Methodists Stand Against Racism | Video, Film, and Podcast Resources

UNITED METHODISTS STAND AGAINST RACISM

 

Video, Film, and Podcast Resources




Featured Video Resources

The following videos are from Religion News Service's new Becoming Less Racist Series:


Episode One: "Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism" with Anthea Butler
In this inaugural episode of "Becoming Less Racist", Simran Jeet Singh interviews University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler.


Episode Two: "Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism" with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
In this second episode of "Becoming Less Racist", Simran Jeet Singh interviews Princeton University Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr.


Episode Three: "Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism" with Robert P. Jones
In this third episode of "Becoming Less Racist", Simran Jeet Singh interviews PRRI founder & CEO Robert P. Jones.



Videos

  • Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses White Fragility
    Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, explains the phenomenon, and discusses how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively across race.
  • How Racism Makes Us Sick
    Public health sociologist David R. Williams describes the negative health effects of racism in the United States.
  • How to Teach Kids to Talk About Taboo Topics
    Educator Liz Kleinrock teaches kids to discuss taboo topics without fear – because the best way to start solving social problems is to talk about them.
  • Jane Elliott on Her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise on Unconscious Bias” is interviewed by Jimmy Fallon
    Teacher and diversity trainer Jane Elliott talks about her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise," the construct of race and what everyone can do in the fight against racism.
  • Trevor Noah, “George Floyd and the Dominos of Racial Justice,”
    The Daily Show host shares his thoughts on the many ways that the contract between society and Black Americans has been broken time and time again.
  • Miss Universe: We Can’t Be What We Can’t See
    Miss America, Miss Universe and Miss USA talk with CNN's Erica Hill about Jamaica's Toni-Ann Singh winning Miss World, making the top five beauty pageant winners women of color.
  • Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk?
    When her 3-year-old son told her that a classmate told him that his skin was brown because he drank chocolate milk, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum was surprised.
  • Sometimes You’re A Caterpillar
    Learn more about privilege and how to understand it.
  • East Ohio Conference Media Center Resources on Race
    View one of the many DVD resources on racism available to members of the Media Center.


Featured Films



Wit, Will, & Walls
A short documentary that profiles Betty Kilby Fisher who, at 13-years-old, was plaintiff in the 1958 case to desegregate Warren County Schools. Through the trauma she and her family suffered, Betty found a way to heal herself and help others open up around issues of race.


Just Mercy
Watch for free the film based on the life work of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson to learn more about the systemic racism that plagues our society.

Follow up with this Discussion Guide.


13th
This Netflix movie from Director Ava DuVernay examines the U.S. prison system looking at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

Follow up with this Discussion Guide.



Films

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    This is the first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for Black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
  • 10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Color To Explain Things For You
    Invest in watching some or all of these important documentaries about race, racial prejudices and privilege within our society.
  • How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
    In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, Baratunde Thurston reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing – while challenging us all to level up.


Featured Audio Podcasts


“Expanding the Table” — New GCORR Podcast on Practicing Anti-Racism
This new podcast series from the General Commission on Religion and Race focuses on how individual Christians and church-based entities can and should engage the work of racial justice-making and anti-racism. You can also watch the video podcast here.

NPR Throughline June 4, 2020, American Police
This episode examines the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.

NPR: We Aren’t Who We Think We Are
Every family has a myth – in some cases, an entire mythology – about  where they came from and who they are. And there are a lot of reasons people tell these stories.



Audio Podcasts

  • NPR: White Lies
    Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions in this 14-part documentary series.
  • NPR: Throughline
    The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present through stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.
  • Mayor Melvin Carter, St. Paul, MN PBS Newshour Weekend interview
    On this edition for Sunday, May 31, chaos and clashes across the nation continue as some protests over the murder of George Floyd turn violent, the history of activism and its influence on political change.
  • Raising White Kids Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race
    NPR's Michel Martin talks to Jennifer Harvey, author of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, about how to talk with white kids about racially-charged events.
  • Talking Race With Young Children
    Even babies notice differences like skin color, eye shape and hair texture. Here's how to handle conversations about race, racism, diversity and inclusion, even with very young children.

 

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