Celebrate Juneteenth with us by watching this Praxis panel discussion.

Moderated by NTS Director of Black Church Studies, Dr. Charles Thurman, and featuring Rev. Irene Lewis-Wimbley, Dr. Kelly Varner, and Rev. Ryan Gage.

Learn more about the Black Leadership and Ministry Doctor of Ministry program at nts.edu/dminblm

WAYS TO OFFER SUPPORT:

ORGANIZATIONS — VOTING RIGHTS & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
• NAACP — naacp.org — Civil rights advocacy, voting rights, and policy action
• National Urban League — nul.org — Economic empowerment and civil rights
• Black Voters Matter — blackvotersmatterfund.org — Voter registration and turnout in Black communities
• When We All Vote — whenweallvote.org — Nonpartisan voter registration and participation
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — lawyerscommittee.org — Voting rights legal defense
• Equal Justice Initiative — eji.org — Criminal justice reform, racial justice, and historical memory
• Color of Change — colorofchange.org — Online racial justice organizing
• National Action Network — nationalactionnetwork.net — Civil rights activism and advocacy

ORGANIZATIONS — FAITH & JUSTICE
• Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference — sdpconference.org — Black church prophetic witness and social justice
• Poor People's Campaign — poorpeoplescampaign.org — Faith-rooted moral movement for justice
• Center for Public Justice — cpjustice.org — Faith and civic engagement
• Sojourners — sojo.net — Faith, justice, and peacemaking

ORGANIZATIONS — HISTORICAL MEMORY & EDUCATION
• Equal Justice Initiative — Legacy Museum — museumandmemorial.eji.org — National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, AL
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture — nmaahc.si.edu — Washington, D.C.
• Juneteenth.com — juneteenth.com — History, events, and community resources
• The 1619 Project — pulitzercenter.org/1619-project — Available through The New York Times and Pulitzer Center

BOOK REFERRALS — HISTORY & MEMORY
• The Half Has Never Been Told — Edward Baptist (The brutal economic history of American slavery)
• Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi (A definitive history of racist ideas in America)
• The Color of Law — Richard Rothstein (How the government segregated America)
• Caste — Isabel Wilkerson (The origins of our discontents)
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates (A letter to his son on race in America)
BOOK REFERRALS — BLACK CHURCH & THEOLOGY
• The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song — Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Companion to the PBS documentary)
• Jesus and the Disinherited — Howard Thurman (Essential reading on faith and the marginalized)
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree — James H. Cone (Foundational Black liberation theology)
• A Black Theology of Liberation — James H. Cone (Groundbreaking theological text)
• Trouble I've Seen — Drew G.I. Hart (Changing the way the church views racism)

BOOK REFERRALS — FAITH, JUSTICE & DISCIPLESHIP
• The Next Evangelicalism — Soong-Chan Rah (Freeing the church from western cultural captivity)
• Prophetic Lament — Soong-Chan Rah (A call for justice in troubled times)
• Reconstructing the Gospel — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Finding freedom from slaveholder religion)
• Reading While Black — Esau McCaulley (African American Biblical interpretation)
• Be the Bridge — Latasha Morrison (Pursuing God's heart for racial reconciliation)

BOOK REFERRALS — WOMANIST THEOLOGY
• Sisters in the Wilderness — Delores S. Williams (Foundational Womanist theological text)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens — Alice Walker (Womanist prose — coined the term)
• Womanist Midrash — Wilda C. Gafney (A reintroduction to the women of the Torah and the throne)