Gwen and Darryl Smith direct Cru's Oneness and Diversity Team, committed to helping shape a unified community that increasingly values ethnicity, age and gender. We discussed what their team is working on, Black History Month and much more.
Recommended resources for pursuing Oneness & Diversity:
for Gwen's talk "Brown Faces Navigating White Spaces" email gwen.smith@cru.org
books
Divided By Faith by Michael O. Emerson
White Awake by Daniel Hill
Insider Outsider by Bryan Loritts
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Woke Church by Eric Mason
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
films
The 13th (Netflix)
Race: The Power of Illusion (check local library)
Many Rivers to Cross (check local library)
Hidden Figures (Prime Video)
