WAYS to LEARN ABOUT and WORK AGAINST RACISM

The Word is Resistance is the SURJ Faith podcast. This episode is about freedom:
https://soundcloud.com/thewordisresistance/twir-91320-freedom-songs Transcript here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dvsD_6m_URD1qJeMX816-coK58Zu6M6/view?usp=sharing

The Black in Appalachia Podcast highlights how Black families have shaped and have been shaped by
the region and what it means to be Black in Appalachia.
https://www.blackinappalachia.org/podcast/episode/399098b9/black-in-appalachia-sundown-towns

Beck Cultural Exchange Center and UTK are cosponsoring an exhibit and virtual artist talk by
printmaker Steve A. Prince. Register: https://tennessee.zoom.us /meeting/register/ tJwqd-
yorjksGtbtVdlRgq1-T6baA9bSnWpF and view prints and drawings in the UT Downtown Gallery
Weds- Fri (11am-6pm) & Sat (10am-3pm) during September.

How can schools undo white supremacy culture? Read here about the year-long process at
Visitacion Valley Middle School (VVMS), in the San Francisco Unified school district.
https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/next_gen_learning/2019/07/what_happened_when_my_school
_started_to_dismantle_white_supremacy_culture.html

What will it take to transform systemic racism in the US? Barbara Smith proposes something like
the Marshall Plan: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-to-dismantle-white-
supremacy/

How can we address inequity? Explore policy platforms from 2016 and the first round of 2020
revised proposals from the Movement for Black Lives: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/

In this episode of Life Kit, Eric Deggans walks us through four steps to being anti-racist. 21 minute
podcast with transcript. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905515398/not-racist-is-not-enough-
putting-in-the-work-to-be-anti-racist

The best baseball pitcher of his generation, Clayton Kershaw is a white man from Texas. Read
about his realization that “Silence won’t cut it...We have to start by saying something and
STANDING up for our Black brothers and sisters. I want to listen, I want to learn, I want to do better
and be different. I want my kids to be different.” https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-06-
19/silence-wont-cut-it-clayton-kershaw-elaborates-on-his-juneteenth-message

Attend BLOUNT COUNTY UNITED: 4th Sat. at 1:00 pm at St. Paul AME Zion Church, Maryville.
Alcoa/Blount branch of NAACP: 4th Sat at 11:45 am at St. Paul AME Zion Church, Maryville.
Sept. 26th link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7704285423

The documentary 13th about mass incarceration in the US is available for free streaming here:
https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8 Two useful study guides here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hlssyVGq9TZAMOdbCFUTPPwsz5GyxHBg?usp=sharing

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WAYS is a publication of Blount County Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) September 2020