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Black History Month Resources

We surveyed Black practitioners in our association and created this page with some of their favorite worship songs, books, artists, businesses & resources. May it be an encouragement to you as we celebrate #BlackVoices – today and everyday. Keep coming back as this page will update often!

Watch our Black Family Talk Here:

Black History Month Playlist

Favorite Book by a Black Author

  • The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • Between the World & Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Roadmap to Reconciliation – Brenda Salter McNeil
  • Post Traumatic Slave-Syndrome – Dr. Joy DeGruy
  • Sacred Rest – Sandra Dalton-Smith
  • The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
  • Deacon King Kong – James McBride
  • Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
  • Color of Compromise – Jemar Tisby

Favorite Children’s Book by a Black Author

  • The 1619 Project: Born On The Water – Nikole Hannah Jones and Renee Watson
  • I Am A Natural Cutie – PD Brown
  • Out of My Mind – Sharon Draper
  • Hair Love – Vashti Harrison
  • Daddy’s Arms – Fabian E. Ferguson
  • Please, Baby Please! – Tonya Lewis Lee

BHM recommendations by Dominique Gilliard

  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  • Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
  • If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by Angela Parker
  • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times) by Willie James Jennings
  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather C. McGhee
  • Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle Danté Stewart
  • In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit Yolanda Pierce
  • God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God’s Unexpected Coming by Drew Jackson
  • A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church by Wilda Gafney
  • Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance by Drew G. I. Hart

Favorite Black Painter/Artist

  • Gordon Parks
  • Carrie Mae Weems
  • Richard Press
  • George Nock
  • Kayla Owens (@kayart252)
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Fred Hammond
  • Melissa Koby
  • Danielle Coke
  • Ernie Barnes

Favorite Black-owned business in your Community

  • Brown Sugar Bakery – IL
  • The Firehouse Catering – IL
  • Wah Gwan – MO
  • Radiant Delights (@radiantdelights)-NC
  • Just Q’in – OH
  • Black Box Fix – OH
  • Esther’s Soul Food + Kitchen – SC
  • Jackie’s Dream – TN
  • Eggxactly Breakfasts Restaurant – TN
  • Girl Talk – TN
  • Mango Mangeaux: A Simply Panache Bistro – VA
  • 521 Biscuits & Waffles – VA
  • The Othello Pharmacy – WA
  • Serious Question Tho podcast
  • Love Petals + Prayers

Dive Deeper into CCD by learning from our amazing practitioners!

  • How your Church can help  end mass incarceration
    How your Church can help end mass incarceration
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  • Black Family Talk
    Black Family Talk
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  • How to Repair what Race Broke Webinar with Lisa Sharon Harper
    How to Repair what Race Broke Webinar with Lisa Sharon Harper
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  • Author Meetup: Rethinking Incarceration with Dominique Gilliard
    Author Meetup: Rethinking Incarceration with Dominique Gilliard
    $5.00
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  • Author Meetup: When We Stand with Terence Lester
    Author Meetup: When We Stand with Terence Lester
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  • Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
    Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege
    $10.00
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  • Unleavened Bread: Reimagining theological faithfulness in the aftermath of deconstruction and the unveiling of whiteness
    Unleavened Bread: Reimagining theological faithfulness in the aftermath of deconstruction and the unveiling of whiteness
    $10.00
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  • Theater, Transformation, and Theology: The Story of the 1619 Musical
    Theater, Transformation, and Theology: The Story of the 1619 Musical
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  • The Redemptive Poverty Worker: Commitments and Core Practices
    The Redemptive Poverty Worker: Commitments and Core Practices
    $10.00
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  • Talking about Race with Young People
    Talking about Race with Young People
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  • Reimagining Your Relationship With Christ and the Church
    Reimagining Your Relationship With Christ and the Church
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  • Reimagine: Living UNDIVIDED for Racial Healing, Solidarity & Justice
    Reimagine: Living UNDIVIDED for Racial Healing, Solidarity & Justice
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  • REIMAGINE YOUR RURAL NONPROFIT: TRANSFORM A SURVIVING SEASON INTO YOUR THRIVING SEASON
    REIMAGINE YOUR RURAL NONPROFIT: TRANSFORM A SURVIVING SEASON INTO YOUR THRIVING SEASON
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  • Reimagine achieving Racial Equity in Child Welfare
    Reimagine achieving Racial Equity in Child Welfare
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  • Not Forsaken: helping young, black men to reimagine their lives
    Not Forsaken: helping young, black men to reimagine their lives
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