Network Resources
ANTI-BLACKNESS
Media 2070 - an essay examining the history of anti-Black harm in the U.S. media system.
Anti-blackness Resources, Reviving Sisterhood
Anti-blackness Archives , Black Youth Project 100
Combating Everyday Anti-blackness, An Educated Guess
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
Ferguson must force us to face its anti-blackness, by Michael P. Jeffries, BostonGlobe.com, November 28, 2014.
Video: "5 Ways of Understanding Black Lives Matter" from the event Broadway For Black Lives Matter - Presentation by Professor Frank Leon Roberts (New York University) Introduced by Tony Award Winner Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple). And Performance of "Change Gonna Come" by Grammy Award Winning Artist Ledisi.
Video: Lecture: The Social Construction of Race, Part 1 and Part 2 - Dr. Waverly Duck, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.
Starting A Conversation About Anti-blackness, by Edward Blum, a book review: Anti-blackness and Christian Ethics, Edited by Vincent W. Lloyd and Andrew Prevot, Christian Century, August 7, 2018.
The Second Amendment is not about guns -- it's about anti-Blackness, a new book argues, by John Blake, CNN
NARRATIVE CHANGE + DISRUPTING ANTI-BLACKNESS
Are the Gods afraid of Blackness?: Anti-Blackness in superhuman television shows by Roman Johnson
The Sapphire Caricature, Ferris State University
Guide to Difficult Conversations About Anti-blackness: How to talk to your immigrant family about racism
Toward New Gravity: Charting a New Course for The Narrative Initiative
Proclamation of the International Decade for People of African Descent
Change the Story: Harnessing the power of narrative for social change, New Tactics in Human Rights, Center for StoryBased Strategy, October 14-18. 2013
Changing Our Narrative About Narrative: The Infrastructure Required for Building Narrative Power by Rashad Robinson, Haas Institute Blueprint for Belonging Project, April 18, 2018
Narrative Power Analysis, contributed by Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning, Beautiful Trouble, A Toolbox for Revolution
Sapelo Square, An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the United States
#TellBlackStories, A Podcast presented by Color of Change
Cultural Strategy: An Introduction & Primer, by Nayantara Sen and in partnership with Art/Work Practice, Power California, reSet Project, Unbound Philanthropy
NETWORKS FOR NARRATIVE CHANGE
Narrative Power and Collective Action, Part 1 and Part 2 , OnThinkTanks.org
Change is All About the Narrative, OnThinkTanks.org, by Caroline Cassidy
Still Waiting for Olivia Pope and Wonder Woman: An event data analysis on the effects of emotional contagion in movies starring women and actors of colour, by Tyhra M. Lindsay-Warren and Serdar Yayla, Journal of Cultural Marketing Strategy (2017)
CREATIVE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Creative Social Enterprise: An Impact Investment, by Rodney Trapp, Grantmakers In the Arts Reader, Vol 26, No 2 (Summer 2015)
What links creative entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs? Pioneerspost.com, November 2018
LIBERATORY CULTURE AND PRACTICE
CONTEMPLATIVE ACTION
Daily Meditations, Center for Action and Contemplation
What is Contemplative Action?, Contemplative Action Blog
Audio: Fr. Richard Rohr OFM: Silence, Action and Contemplation, Encountering Silence Blog, Episode 19
Reflections on Contemplative Activism, Gravity: A Center for Contemplative Activism
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, by Barbara Holmes.
Barbara A. Holmes, Contemplative, Activist, Writer, Theologian
Centering Social Action in Contemplation (and Contemplation in Social Action), a talk by Brian McLaren
Mysticism and Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman, by Alton B. Pollard, III.
Mysticism and Social Transformation, Janet K. Ruffing, editor.