Melanated Faith

In this episode, Kathryn and Faitth discuss recent mass shootings and how we can care for each other during difficult times. 

Soul Care in African American Practice by Barbara Peacock

Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong 

Woman dresses up for 52 virtual church services

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In this episode, Faitth and Kathryn discuss 2020 and their hopes for life post-COVID. 

Late Stage Pandemic is Messing With Your Brain

There is No Going Back To Normal 

Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, And The Blessing of God by Renita J. Weems 

Chasing Vines by Beth Moore 

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In this episode, Kathryn interviews librarian and transracial adoptee Amanda McClendon about identity, disinformation, and checking your sources. 

 

How QAnon fuses Neo-Charismatic Christianity and Conspiracy Theories 

Why Has Attracted So Many White Evangelicals 

Why is it so Hard to Reach Christian Conspiracy Theorists

SIFT method for Media Literacy

 

 

Amanda’s Book List 

 

Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 

Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley 

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung 

 

Faitth Brook’s Guided Journal 

 

Is Your Allyship Conditional?

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In this episode, Faitth and Kathryn have a thrilling conversation with Lyn Sisson-Talbert about the creation of the new Netflix Christmas classic, Jingle Jangle.

Follow Lyn on Instagram @lynsissontalbert and visit her website www.lynsissiontalbert.com.

Jingle Jangle is now streaming on Netflix.

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In this bonus Episode Faitth and Kathryn discuss the 2020 election and its meaning for black women. 

‘A Long Time Coming’: Black Women Celebrate Harris’s Ascension

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/kamala-harris-black-women-first.html

She Did It 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/kamala-harris-makes-history/617002/

Kamala Harris, America’s first female vice president-elect, makes history

https://19thnews.org/2020/11/kamala-harris-vice-president-elect-2020-election/

Remembering Shirley Chisholm 

https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/botwc-firsts/remembering-shirley-chisholm-the-first-african-american-woman-to-run-for-president

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On this episode, Kathryn and Faitth discuss Christian political engagement and voting.

Bread for the World fact sheet on hunger

https://www.bread.org/library/fact-sheet-get-facts-about-snap

The Early Church Saw Itself as a Political Body. We Can Too.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/october-web-only/election-politics-president-trump-early-church-model.html

Faith and Politics Conversation with Jamie Ivey

https://omny.fm/shows/the-happy-hour-with-jamie-ivey/happy-hour-faith-and-politics-episode-1

If You Are Pro-Life, You Must Also Be Anti-Racist

https://faithfullymagazine.com/prolife-antiracist/

I’m not Backing Off: Racism and the Undefeatable Faith of Fannie Lou Hamer 

https://thewitnessbcc.com/hit-truth-racism-undefeatable-faith-fannie-lou-hamer/

Christian Approach to Politics with Eugene Cho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN9kiL1Qo2g

Books

Reclaiming Hope by Michael Wear

https://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/2017/01/brandnew_reclaiming_hope_lesso/

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality All by Martha Jones

https://blackpearlbookstore.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=lqczeCEl_PDVdH-v9hnhVA

Compassion and Conviction by Justin Giboney and Michael Wear 

https://blackpearlbookstore.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=1-zqAe0pcQ6E4KaqAzk2gQ

Election Information 

League of Women Voters Candidate and Ballot Information 

https://www.lwv.org/

Election Protection Hotline 

https://866ourvote.org/

Go Off Sis: 

Color Me Country with Rissi Palmer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMW_XAes15w&t=19s

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In this episode, Kathryn and Faitth discuss blackness and healthy racial identity formation.

Resources

The Significance of the “Doll Test”

https://www.naacpldf.org/ldf-celebrates-60th-anniversary-brown-v-board-education/significance-doll-test/

NY Times: A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/politics/black-girls-school-discipline.html

How Code-Switching Helps To Explain the World 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/how-code-switching-explains-the-world

You Talk Like A White Girl Is Not Compliment https://www.bustle.com/articles/148850-5-reasons-saying-you-talk-like-a-white-girl-is-not-a-compliment

The Atlantic: The Relentless of Black Grief 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/relentlessness-black-grief/616511/

Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/opinion/megan-thee-stallion-black-women.html

Racial Equity Tools: Summary Stages of Racial Identity Development

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/Compilation_of_Racial_Identity_Models_7_15_11.pdf

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum 

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465060684/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M0TO7AEIII5A&dchild=1&keywords=why+are+all+the+black+kids+sitting+together&qid=1602636509&sprefix=why+are+%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 

https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here-Dignity-Whiteness/dp/1524760854/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20NBDQH4FHUBK&dchild=1&keywords=i%27m+still+here+austin+channing+brown&qid=1602636534&sprefix=I%27m+St%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1

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In this episode Kathryn and Faitth discuss the wisdom of their mothers and the beauty of mother/daughter relationships.

Resources: 

The Best Advice Dr. Maya Angelou Has Given--Received

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHvTWvKIPHo

When People Show You Who They Are Believe Them

http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/when-people-show-you-who-they-are-believe-them-video

Miss Juneteenth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7E0nA46eBw

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 

https://www.amazon.com/Transcendent-Kingdom-novel-Yaa-Gyasi-ebook/dp/B07ZC6W6SV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NS3V1SUN7A0S&dchild=1&keywords=transcendent+kingdom&qid=1601751911&sprefix=transcende%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1

Black Women: It’s Time to Focus on the Mother Daughter Relationship

https://www.ebony.com/health/mother-daughter-relationships/

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: An Essay by Alice Walker

http://l-adam-mekler.com/walker_in_search.pdf

Legacy Panel with Dr. Lois Evans, Priscilla Shirer and Chrystal Evans Hurst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlVAYkZAExs

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In this episode, Faitth and Kathryn delve deeper into the issue of dating as black, Christian, single women.

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In this episode Faitth and Kathryn discuss the struggles of ambitious black women face in society and the church and strategies for overcoming them. 

Pop Psalms: Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls) by Kathryn Freeman

https://thinkchristian.reframemedia.com/pop-psalms-beyonc%C3%A9s-run-the-world-girls

“Ready to Rise” by Jo Saxton 

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Rise-Gather-Community-Influence/dp/0735289840/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BDBETSV0N9E6&dchild=1&keywords=ready+to+rise+jo+saxton&qid=1599712820&sprefix=ready+to+riise+%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-1

“Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 

https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Discontent-Movement-Baptist-1880-1920/dp/0674769783/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KCXS3GUO8CFV&dchild=1&keywords=righteous+discontent+by+evelyn+brooks+higginbotham&qid=1599712392&sprefix=Righteous+disc%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1

Lead Stories Podcast 

https://www.leadstoriespodcast.com/

Harvard Business Review “For Women Leaders, Likability and Success Hardly Go Hand-in-Hand”

https://hbr.org/2013/04/for-women-leaders-likability-a#:~:text=As%20the%20lead%20researcher%20for,not%20go%20together%20for%20women.&text=But%20when%20acting%20authoritatively%2C%20women,disliked%20much%20more%20than%20men.

INC. Magazine “Black Women: Ready, Willing and More Than Able to Lead”

https://www.inc.com/center-for-talent-innovation/black-women-ready-willing-and-more-than-able-to-lead.html

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