Resources
As a part of the commitment to a complete and accurate narrative of Black American History, the racial justice movement in our society today advocates for the value of diverse voices. If your next step is to contact one of the following groups and help them achieve their mission, you will be participating in the healing of racial violence too.
Commemoration Activism and Expanding Public History
1. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
2. Maryland Lynching Memorial Project
3. NMAACH National Museum of African American History & Culture
4. Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project
6. Southern Poverty Law Center
7. African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Black Perspectives.
9. Arkansas Peace and Justice Memorial Movement
10. MLK Workgroup on Lynchings in Virginia
11. EJI Community Remembrance Projects
12. NAACP
13. Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia, 1877-1927 Research Project
Anti Racist Education and Training
1. CSWAC – The Center for The Study of White American Culture, Inc. Each workshop is conducted by a team of CSWAC facilitators who are also racial justice activists with a history as organizers working in cross-racial alliances.
2. Coming To The Table - Community groups meet monthly throughout the U.S.. Their mission is to confront the legacy of slavery to reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time.
3. Patti Digh, Hard Conversations Book Club
4. Truth Racial Healing and Transformation projects. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation supports local communities as they build coalitions for seeking change to end racial oppression, racial harms and discrimination. TRHT is a national effort with transformation projects in over 14 communities such as www.blackbeltfound.org in Selma Alabama and in Dallas Texas.
5. Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University
6. Mindful of Race Institute – Online Learning Academy and www.ruthking.net The Mindful of Race Institute was established to support individuals seeking to engage in the inner work of racial healing and social intimacy. Their educational programs provide an introspective investigation of our racial conditioning and impact.
7. Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing - The mission of this Episcopal center for racial healing is to provide tools and experiences that allow faith communities, and the larger community of individuals, to engage in dismantling racism through education, prayer, dialogue, pilgrimage, and spiritual formation.