Brendan Carr’s F.C.C. Has Been Busy. Plus, Rewriting the History of Watergate.
[29:26] Brooke [Gladstone] sits down with Bryan Stevenson, public interest lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, to talk about the Trump Administration's war on museums, especially those that deal with our nation's history of racism.
Bryan Stevenson says, 'I'm not naive. I don't believe that beautiful things like that always happen when we tell the truth. I do believe that we deny ourselves the beauty of justice when we refuse to tell the truth. I've seen too much beauty come out of truth-telling, too much restoration, too much redemption, to believe that truth-telling doesn't have a power that is greater than the fear and anger that is prompting these orders, prompting some of this retreat. I worry about people who are already surrendering and waving white flags, and running for cover. I just don't think that's the way we're going to get to the other side.'
Trump Cuts to NEH Funding Threaten to Erase Indian Boarding School History, from Native News Online, 4/21/25
'Last week, the Washington Post reported the Trump administration pulled the $1.5 million funding that was earmarked for 10 organizations that would preserve Indian boarding school documents by digitizing them.'
Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON - June 2, 2024
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resources for 2023
By BuildFaith Editors on Apr 19, 2023
To help Christian communities amplify Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander voices in American and church history, Building Faith shares a list of resources, including new and recent books, reading lists, podcasts, documentaries, virtual exhibits, and church resources.
In A Time For Reckoning: North American Christianity and Indigenous Cultural Genocide, Mike Morrell offers a call to awareness, humility, repentance, and action; includes resource lists for reading/study; supporting, enjoying and learning from Indigenous artists; and specific actions for individuals, households, and congregations.
Walter Brueggeman's An Unwelcome Read of History (09.30.20)
10 Books By Black Authors That You Need To Read Right NowWorks by writers like bell hooks, Damon Young and James Baldwin that will educate and make an impact on everyone. By Tessa Flores |
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10 Books by Black Scholars to Add to Your Reading List Feb 1, 2022; by Fortress Press |
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail wends from Baltimore to New Orleans with many stops along the way, including Birmingham, Little Rock, Montgomery and Selma; a good way to learn about Black history in our nation. Rev. Waters' book is the account of his own pilgrimage to some of these sites.
As part of Healing Minnesota Stories’ effort to create dialogue, understanding and healing between Native and non-Native peoples, Minnesota Council of Churches offers Sacred Site Tours of the Twin Cities area. The tour includes information on Dakota history, culture and sacred sites, as well as the oppression and genocide they faced, and ultimately their exile.
As the topics are quite serious the tours are considered age appropriate for high-school age or older.
Learn more and register here.
by David Freudberg on April 13, 2023 / Progressive Christianity
Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that nearly tore America apart.
Denise Lajimodiere: Stringing Rosaries
Denise Lajimodiere’s academic book, Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors, delves deep into American Indian boarding schools, the unsettling history, stories of abuse, and the trauma that continues to affect many of the survivors’ families yet today.
White Fatigue: Authored and narrated by Robe Imbriano and executive produced and creative directed by BigStar’s Josh Norton.
[See also: What Is White Fatigue?]
is a response to criticism generated from its predecessor, 
Disparity Trap: The Socially Conscious Board Game provides an easy way to have the hard conversations around race & privilege in America and how they impact society in systemically dominant (SD) and systemically non-dominant (SND) ways. The game play is like many of its kind, where your individual goal is to accrue as much wealth as possible. But where it differs is that you can have a team goal as well where you work with your fellow players to dismantle the Disparity Traps seeking to keep everyone in poverty. Within this game you also step into someone else’s shoes; to experience the disparities within an identity different from your own. Throughout the game, the dice roll correlates your identity in the game to real life statistics.
So like life, the dice are in your hands, but the odds are not.
