Advocates for Justice

Black History Legacy & Learning

• White Supremacy Culture – A Resource on Identifying and Dismantling White Dominance in Society
• The Rollback of the Civil-Rights Movement – Esquire
• The White Panther Party: A Radical Ally Movement for Racial Justice
• I’ve been to the Mountain Top (Full speech) - Martin Luther King Jr.
• Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality | TED Talk
• YouTube Playlist on Black History Legacy
• Black Theology: the FAITH inspired origins of the Civil Rights Movement - Dr. Dennis Edwards
• Half-Month, Inclusive History
• The Slave Bible
• Tulsa Race Massacre Findings (DOJ)
• Segregation & Racial Inequality in Detail
• The History of Black History Month & Dr. Carter G. Woodson | Good Black News
• Black History Month Has an Official Theme | Byline: Jemar Tisby
• 2025 Black History Month Theme - Executive Summary
• Welcome to Black History Month 2025 | Byline: James Tolbert
• Black History Month in Trump’s America | Byline: Robert P. Jones
• Equal Justice Initiative Calendar - Racial Injustice Events
• Anti-Greed Gospel: How to Resist in a Plutocracy
• Domini Hoskins Black History Museum and Learning Center - Home
• Negro Spirituals - Spiritual Lessons with Rollo Dilworth - The Evangelical Covenant Church

Black Healthcare

• Quit NIH: Health Care Diversity Research Under Trump - Slate
• Synthetic Hair Carcinogens Lead to Health Risks for Black Women - NBC News
• Joel Bervell's Homepage
• The Birth Fund - Press

Bible Reading Plans

• DEI: A God Design – 5-Day Bible Reading Plan
• Reflections of Faith and Justice - a Devotional by Benjamin Mays
• Forever Faithful 10-Day Devotional
• On the Shoulders of Giants
• Voices of Faith
• Celebrate Hope: Looking Back Stepping Up

Podcasts

• How Race Was Made (Seeing White Part 2) – Scene on Radio
• Made in America (Seeing White Part 3) – Scene on Radio
• Betrayal Trauma – Spotify Episode
• Bridging the Gap: Justice in the Church with Sarah Pechan-Driver
• The Holy Post Podcast
• The Micah Podcast
• Faithful Citizenship in Trump's Second Term with Peter Wehner
• My Anger, God’s Righteous Indignation
• When AI Becomes God
• This podcast on Indigenous people's experience in the small town of Minden, Nevada
• Soul of the Nation Featuring The Convocation Unscripted
• Immigration is a Biblical issue

Newsworthy

Anyone who still believes that White Supremacy does not sit at the root of what this administration is doing is either in denial or complicit.

• Instagram Reel: News clip highlighting systemic injustice (Watch on Instagram)
• Trump’s anti-diversity push comes for Arlington Cemetery’s rich, diverse history
• Trump White House mocks immigrants deported ASMR x Elon Musk
• Trump, the GOP and DOGE have launched their attack on Social Security. You should start worrying now
• Don’t Blame DEI for the L.A. Fires | TIME
• Flawed AI Impacts Justice

The Playlist

• God of Color | Common Hymnal
• Spotify Playlist
• Give Your Hands to Struggle

Immigration Resources

• Immigration Resource Hub | Evangelical Covenant Church
• How End Times Theology Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy - Sojourners
• Immigrant Connection - Welcoming & Supporting Immigrants

Blogs

• Restoring Truth or Rewriting History | Byline: Jemar Tisby
• Is ‘Wokeness’ Worth Saving? | Sojourners
• Survive Together – Lisa Sharon Harper
• The False Religion of Power – Markus Lloyd
• Debating DEI
• MAGA’s DEI Logic | Robert P. Jones
• How Americans Feel About Deporting Immigrants | The Conversation
• The Authoritarian Playbook
• Conversation as Spiritual Formation in a Lonely Age - Coracle
• Du Mez Connections - Pete Hegseth’s America
• Footnotes By Jamar Tisby - Pete Hegseth: The New Secretary Of...
• A Public Witness - After Viral Sermon, GOP Threatens...
• White Too Long - After Week One: The Sermon Heard Round...
• Christian Nationalism in a Second Trump Administration | Byline: Kristin Du Mez
• The Needs of the Few Outweigh the Needs of the Many | Byline: James Tolbert
• David Brooks: Faith and Coming to Christianity (NYT Essay)
• Resolute by Kristin Du Mez (Substack)
• Plan to Dismantle DEI on Day One Is a Colorblind Path to Jim Crow 2.0
• White Women & Reactionary Politics
• The Role of the Church in Helping the Nation Heal
• Buckle Up | Heather Cox Richardson
• Why Black Americans Feel They Have No Allies After Trump's Victory | Byline: D. Danyelle Thomas
• Chickens Coming Home to Roost | Byline: James Tolbert
• Salty
• Hope is a Woman Who Lost Her Fear
• Challenges to Democracy: The 2024 Election in Focus
• Feelings Won't Fix America

Connect with ECC LMDJ

• Christian Faith and Politics

Who We Are Following

• Sacred Reckonings
• Interwoven Congregations
• Justice League GLM
• Athens Center for Racial Justice
• An American Lament – Repentance Project
• Journey Home – About
• The Zacchaeus Foundation
• J29 Coalition
• Trinity Forum (TTF)
• One America Movement
• The People's Union
• Learning Justice
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Woolman Forum - George Fox University
• HTI Open Plaza
• The Birth Fund Press
• The Authoritarian Playbook - Protect Democracy
• ECC Free
• Martha R. Bireda
• Disarming Leviathan
• Kairos Center
• Hindus for Human Rights
• Savera
• Freedom Church of the Poor
• OC Justice Initiative
• Bernice King
• D. Danyelle Thomas
• Remarkably Us
• Racial Reconciliation — Eastown Church
• PICO California
• Threaded
• The Witness - (Non)Toxic Masculinity
• Diana Butler Bass
• The Yoga Abbey
• Spark Church - Gospel Justice
• Arrabon
• Bernice King
• Christian Community Development Association
• Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project
• Equal Justice Initiative
• The Flourish Collective
• Jesus & Justice Collective
• Jesus & Justice
• Lisa Sharon Harper
• Love Never Fails
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

What We Are Reading

• The Tears of Things by Richard Rohr — Available Now
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
• The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
• Black Practitioners to Learn From in 2025 - Community Church Development Association
• Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
• A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition
• God of the Oppressed
• Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
• When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
• The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong
• 12 Lies Americans Believe - Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free
• Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
• The Christian Right in Europe
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
• Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself (Audiobook)
• The Gift of Rejection: “Greatness and mediocrity are separated by one thing--how you respond to rejection.”
• We Cannot Be Silent
• The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
• Antiracism as Daily Practice by Jennifer Harvey
• Baptizing America by Brian Kaylor
• Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
• Thanksgiving, Lament, and the Story We Tell | Sojourners
• Moving Forward
• Sojourners Magazine
• Empowered to Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities
• Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0
• Church for Everyone
• The Post-Black and Post-White Church
• A copy of The 1619 Project (PDF)
• The Full Armor of God
• Decolonizing Christianity
• The Sum of Us
• Always With Us
• Disarming Leviathan
• We Cry Justice
• Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor
• The Making of Asian America
• Finding Latinx
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
• By the Fire We Carry
• Inventing Latinos
• Sajjilu Arab American
• The Mixed-Race Experience
• Black AF History
• They Called Us Exceptional
• Bring Back Your People

What We’re Streaming

• Q: Pro-life or pro-choice OR...? Mako Nagasawa & Elizabeth Grady Harper on abortion (part 1)
• Reconstruction Part 1
• Race in America
• Quiet and Steady Resistance: The Work of Racial Justice and Repair Continues in Local Communities
• Segregated Sundays Documentary
• How One Journalist Risked Her Life to Hold Murderers Accountable
• Dr. Michael Emerson: Christians "Always Falling Behind" the Devil Because of Whites' Individualism
• Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20
• A Time For Burning (56 minutes)
• Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States — Dr. Andrew L. Whitehead
• Policing the Police 2020 - FRONTLINE (PBS)
• Color blind or color brave? | Mellody Hobson
• The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus
• Holy Post - Race in America
• Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice | TED
• Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
• The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story (199) - Free Movies | Tubi
• Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. By: Dr. Andrew L. Whitehead
• Are Faith & Science At Odds? | Dr. Frederick Ware
• The Big Problem with How We Pick Juries - YouTube video • 8 minutes
• The Origins of Policing in America | Perspective - YouTube video • 7 minutes
• From Slave Patrols to Modern Day Police: The Evolution - YouTube video • 16 minutes
• The Voices Collection Daily Devotionals
• Bridging the Gap: A Conversation with Bryan Stevenson & Chuck Mingo
• The 1619 Project
• Gather
• Through Eyes of Color
• How I Got Over
• Siri Imani - Lost Generation
• The Importance of Education and HBCUs
• Atlanta is Not Wakanda - 5 minutes
• Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix - 16 minutes
• The Truth about Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap - 14 minutes
• Wealth Inequality in America - 6 minutes
• Examining the Racial Wealth Gap in the U.S. - 7 minutes
• The Racist History Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Gap | Doha Debates - 14 minutes
• How America’s Wealth Gap Shaped the Modern Economy - 14 minutes
• How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap | Robert Reich - 6 minutes
• What is Systemic Racism in America? - 4 minutes
• Not Just Tulsa: 5 Destroyed Black Towns - 8 minutes

Voting Resource Links

How Latino’s found Evangelicalism and Trump - What's really behind the Latino vote? : It's Been a Minute : NPR

It is not too early to start gearing up for the 2026 midterm elections. We must do all in our power to ensure EVERYONE gets registered. Secondly, we must educate them, making it Sesame Street simple. Then, we have to press in and press on keeping the issues before the people and do all in our power to get them to cast their ballots.

In parallel, we must stay informed of all the information and policies in this space and be ready to maneuver and outmaneuver as needed. Now is not the time to pull back, get tired, or give up.

Who's with me?

• Why California’s Latinos are just as politically divided as everyone else
• Vote is Sacred - Interfaith America
• ‘What a circus’: Eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election | The Guardian
• Beyond White Privilege
• Reclaim Our Vote
• Voter Formation
• AAPI Voting Information
• I Will Vote

What We Are Learning

• Worship, Lament, and Justice | Interview with David M. Bailey (YouTube - 44 minutes)
• Justified Anger Initiative – Dr. Alex Gee
• Regeneration Black Cinema – Restoring Lost Black Films and Narratives
• What It Means To Be Black In Latin America | NPR
• Dulles Airport Was Built Over a Thriving Black Community | Loudoun History
• The Pentagon Was Built on a Black Neighborhood | The Guardian
• Lakes Were Built on Top of These Former Black Towns | PushBlack
• Gentrification and Black Displacement in D.C. | JGSPL
• Justice Interview with Dominique Gilliard (YouTube - 31 minutes)
• Allegories on Race and Racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory (YouTube)
• Scientists discover that most Europeans had dark skin as recently as 3,000 years ago | Live Science
• What Anti-Christian Bias Does For | Contrarian
• What is an Executive Order and How Does it Work? | ACLU
• Donald Trump’s New Approach to the Culture War | Politico
• The origins of policing in America | Perspective (7 minutes)
• The big problem with how we pick juries (8 minutes)
• Watch When They See Us | Netflix Official Site
• From Slave Patrols to Modern Day Police: The Evolution (16 minutes)
• 13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix (1 hour 40 minutes)
• Hitler took down democracy in 37 days
• Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States
• Sundown Towns by State - History and Social Justice
• How to Fight Racism
• Prison Policy Initiative
• The Demographics of Racial Inequality in the United States
• The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery (YouTube - 8 minutes)
• The Horrors of the Tuskegee Experiment | A Short Documentary (YouTube - 9 minutes)
• Being Black in a White Coat: Local Doctors Face Discrimination on and Off the Job (YouTube - 10 minutes)
• Environmental Racism Explained (YouTube - 15 minutes)
• Descendants of Slavery Fight Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ (YouTube - 8 minutes)
• Henrietta Lacks: The 'Immortal' Cells That Changed the World - BBC REEL (YouTube - 8 minutes)
• "Legacy": Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America (YouTube - 10 minutes)
• Black Maternal Mortality Rate Worsens | Zerlina. (YouTube - 7 minutes)
• "Pollution is Segregated" Says the Father of Environmental Justice | Amanpour and Company (YouTube - 17 minutes)
• Dr. Jaqueline Echols' Mission To Cure Environmental Racism (YouTube - 13 minutes)
• What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman
• California Reparations Report
• Remembering Russell City
• Racial and Immigrant Justice
• Dominionism
• Would Black Christian Nationalism Help Create Utopia
• The Christian Right in Europe (Substack)
• Do You Know These Women? (Library of Congress)
• Haitian Independence Day: A Story of Resilience and Reparations
• Martin Luther King Jr. – Nobel Lecture
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Finding Voice and Choice: Turning Pain into Power After Foster Care
• Religious-Sounding Language Will Be Everywhere in 2025
• Whose Land Are You On? - Native Land Digital
• The Story of the Affirmed Tribes of Northwest Indians
• For Long Walks - Dwell: Audio Bible
• Trump's Second Term Plans: Wildest Proposals for 2025 and Beyond - Rolling Stone
• HBCU Documentary: We Are Rising - YouTube (1 hr 23 mins)
• How America's Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty - YouTube (13 mins)
• Doll Test 1940 Revisited 2012 - YouTube (6 mins)
• The Hidden History of Brown v. Board of Education - YouTube (13 mins)
• How Student Loan Debt is Holding Millennials Back From Home Ownership - YouTube (5 mins)
• Remembering How to Be Honest

Sermon Resources

• Let Justice Roll on - Sermon Series
• Hubris, Hype, Hope & Biblical Questions - View Presentation

Take Action

• Black Economic Boycotts Must Be Driven By Strategy, Not Emotions Master Class
• Greenline Housing Foundation
• Learn more about Chet's programs and how you can get involved.
• Write That Book
• Does your church have a role to play in addressing injustice? (TIME SENSITIVE APPLICATION DEADLINE)
• Poor People’s Campaign - California Committee

• ▶ Call Your Member of Congress (Often!)

Prayers for Reflection

• The Tears of Things - Reader’s Guide for Reflection & Prayer
• Teach us to Intercede
• A Prayer for Reflection after Election Season | Sojourners

Good News

When you're struggling to find good news, look no further! These stories break away from the typical "doom & gloom" narrative, offering positive and uplifting content that reminds us of the good in the world.

Check out this source for inspiring, positive stories that highlight the brighter side of life:

Visit Good News Network

• The Things They Cannot Undo - Izzy McLaughlin

Community Resources

• Milpitas Cares
• Fremont Family Resource Center

Addressing Poverty

• Why We Need Reparations for Black Americans | Brookings
• Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream for Economic Affirmative Action. The Supreme Court Failed Him | Class Matters

• If you have not read Liz Theoharis' book, "Always With Us," I highly recommend it. This book will deepen your understanding of serving and advocating for the poor.

  Liz Theoharis: Organizing and Building Power

The Unhoused

• California Launches Three-Year Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
• Santa Clara County Unhoused Support - Epath
• Covenant House - Support for Unhoused Youth

Environmental Justice

• Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World―and the Future | Amazon

Mass Incarceration

• Unreliable Verdicts - Equal Justice Initiative
• Alabama Inmates and the Prison Industrial Complex | NPR

Lenten Resources

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree Book Study
• Lent - Creation Justice Ministries
• The Winding Road | Arrabon

Human Trafficking

• Sexual Violence Uncovered - Bible Study PDF
• Love Never Fails Cosponsors Assembly Bill 379!

Liturgies & Lament

FOR WORTH
God in us,

We know the miracle inherent in our existence. We are here, our beauty stretching out and dwelling within us. But it is hard to believe in one’s dignity when the systems and societies to which we belong are content to destroy us. We have heard lies of our worthlessness in the explicit and implicit ways the world interacts with our bodies, stories, and homes. It is incessant — this lie of our own inadequacy, this charade of our inferiority. Remind us that our dignity does not wane or bud in relation to anyone’s belief in it, including our own. Let us rest with the knowledge that we have nothing to prove; our dignity, perpetual as it is divine. We will not shrink. We expand. Remind us of our making. For we too contain the divine. Amen.

— Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies

• An American Lament – The Repentance Project