'Lift Every Voice' Series Resources
Ok friends, are ready for all the links? And, yeah, I really mean All. The. Links!
Throughout these first three weeks of our “Lift Every Voice” sermon series we’ve offered a wide variety of articles, ideas, and people for your Black History edification. So many offerings that it would be understandable if you missed some. Here, then, is the full compilation of all those articles, ideas, and people for you to read, learn with, and follow.
(Obviously it is impossible to list everything and everyone worth reading and knowing. This is just a list of those we mentioned during this sermon series. Still, if there something from the series I missed here, please let me know!)
Articles on the history and impact of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
—the Black National Anthem that is providing the structure for this sermon series. Click the links for the full story!
This article in the History of Hymns series on the UMC website.
This piece from the Smithsonian
This article from the Washington Post
This short piece from the NAACP
This blog post from the Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity
For a different approach to the song read this critique of the suggestion that the song alone can heal racism
Daily Prayer Resource
Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church offers daily prayers for anti-racism. Click here to read this week’s prayers and have the option to subscribe to their prayers for anti-racism emailed daily.
Resources to better understand our history—and present
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
This informative “What is?” series by the General Commission on Religion & Race of the United Methodist Church
Folks to follow on social media
I’ve noticed that I tend to follow people and accounts that look and sound and think like me. Here is an attempt to alter that pattern. These are just a couple examples that I mentioned in part 3 of the sermon series. Please share others I should add to the list!
Chef and author of Kosher Soul, Michael W. Twitty
Artist, activist, organizer, and Confederate flag remover Bree Newsome Bass
Author Cole Arther Riley, aka Black Liturgies. She wrote This Here Flesh and posts breath prayers and longer prayers almost daily.
All those inventions!
Yet another reminder that Black history is all our history.
Everyday inventions created by Black inventors such as folding chair, traffic signal, potato chips, refrigerated trucks, closes dryer, automatic gear shifts, peanut butter, and more