'Friday Fruit' Archive

On Fridays, BTSF posts links to some of the week's happenings. 

It's an opportunity for you to read about racial justice & Christianity from other folks, and for me to give props to the shoulders on which I stand.

Here, I will simply deposit the history of the links that have been featured, with the most recent appearing first:

• Why Worship Without Justice Dishonors God

• Reflections on How We Discuss Politics at Church

• How the Rules of Racism Are Different For Asian Americans

• Native American Flash Mob Round Dance Takes Over Mall of America

• Urbana highlights:
• Charity or solidarity?
• "I'm biracial - half white, half Caucasian"
• Confessions of an Asian American Worship Leader

• Global Christmas

• Reconciliation: Not for the faint of heart

• Who's at Your Table?

• The Sad State of Illinois Prisons

• From Pompadours to Fades, New Art Celebrates Black Women’s Hair

• The Existential Fallout After Newton

• Racial Barriers to College Coaching

• La Diva De La Gente: Remembering Jenni Rivera
• Also: Insiders Say Jenni Rivera’s Death Shows U.S. Media is Clueless About ‘Mexican Anything’

• Insights from the Duke Center of Reconciliation

• "The Parable of the Good Undocumented Immigrant": The Good Samaritan Revisited

• How To Talk To Someone About Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is

• Dear Christians: Relax. There’s No War on Our Faith

• Advent: In Anticipation of Reconciliation

• A Mulitethnic Worship Leader Is: Relational

• The heart of the matter: Addressing stereotypes head on

• Bethlehem: Then and Now

• Spanish-Speaker Spends Months Locked Up After Interpreter Dies

• Tim Cook Says He Values ‘Diversity With a Capital D,’ But Top Execs Are White Males

• The Life of God on the Reservation

• Gmail’s 57th Supported Language is Cherokee, Its First Native American Tribal Language

• Africans unite to save Norwegians from dying of frostbite!

• More Facing Race highlights: 
• Junot Díaz on ‘De-colonial Love’, Revolution and More [Video]

• Leaving Jesus: Women Of Color Beyond Faith

• Cab Drivers, Uber, And The Costs Of Racism

• Hip-Hop Legend Afrika Bambaataa Begins Lecturing at Cornell

• The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Undoing the Damage of Sunday Morning Segregation

• More Facing Race highlights: 
• Video of Facing Race Plenary Sessions
• Rinku Sen's Opening Speech 
• ‘Now What? Debriefing the Election and Talking Governance’
• 'Race and Gender in the 21st Century' 
• 'Culture Trumps Politics: Or Does It?'
• Performance: “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic”
• Race And Masculinity: Perils, Pride And Pushing The Boundaries Of Perception
• All The Places We Are Not: The Racialicious Roundtable For Facing Race 2012

• Art and Activism in Charm City: Five Baltimore Collectives That Are Facing Race

• Infographic: How White is the New Fall 2012 TV Season?

• Nothing Says Native American Heritage Month Like White Girls In Headdresses

• Glorifying God by Fighting Injustice: Chai Ling at Urbana 12

• More Fighting in Jesus’ Neighborhood this week

• In Our Children's Brains: Having a Black President

• Riots, Slave States, and Kool-Aid: Race Talk After the Election

• Mission Lessons From Election Night

• Asian American Voters Back Democrats Despite Being Ignored By Both Parties

• Colorado Poll Watcher Reports ‘High Concentration of People of Color’ [Video]

• Why Don't People Vote?

• Tips for Learning Languages

• What is a faithful Christian interpretation of Drone Warfare?

• Assessment for Unity in the Multicultural Church

• Northeast Tribal Lands Hit Hard by Hurricane Sandy

• Without Electricity, New Yorkers on Food Stamps Can’t Pay for Food

• Who's Reporting the News? An Analysis by Race and Ethnicity

• The Science Of Racism: Radiolab’s Treatment Of Hmong Experience

• Brooklyn Teen on Track to Become First Black Female Chess Master

• Pedro Reyes: Imagine

• Russell Means, Oglala Sioux Activist and Actor, Dies at 72
• See Also: Voices: Russell Means (1939-2012) [VIDEO]

• What Color Is Rihanna's New Fragrance? What is 'nude'?

• Just How Hard is it for a Navajo Elder to Get Voter ID? [VIDEO]

• Microaggression and Political Debates

• Please Do Not Dress Up for Halloween in Blackface, Brownface, or Yellowface; Don’t Be Stupid

• Psychological homelessness in your church

• Ohio 'Voter Fraud' Billboards a 'Perversion of Truth'

• Naked without a Guitar

• NYPD's stop and frisk policy [Video]

• Assisted Living Prison Cells: On Aging Prisoners

• Represent: Native American Identity and Authenticity

• How worship fights racial bias

• Affirmative Action Is Just One Part of the Educational Equity Fight

• Abagond: Fisher v University of Texas

• How Diversity Trumped Equity—and May Kill Affirmative Action

• Racial code switching in ASL

• The Faithful Way to Sing to God? Mine.

• When you and I are “We”, “You” are not threatening

• Who Else Wants To Confess?

• When Chicano history is ignored

• Why My Racial Background is None of Your Business

• Is Choosing Not to Vote Selfish?

• Sikh Woman Teaches Reddit Users a Life Lesson in Tolerance

• Marijuana Prohibition Turns 75, Blacks Three Times More Likely to be Arrested Than Whites

• Near Silence on Poverty in the Presidential Debate

• Does Christianity* make people prejudiced?

• The Ballot and the Bible: How Voting Can Be a Sacred Act

• Step into my film school! The importance of casting in breaking open movie stereotypes
• via Side Hustle Stories!

• Fifteen Issues This Election Is Not About

• Hari Kondabolu Celebrates Success by Pointing to a Few Failures on W. Kamau Bell's 'Totally Biased'

• Beyond Good Intentions: Loving By Learning

• Marijuana, Stakeouts and The Kingdom of God

• USA Today and the Multiethnic Church

• With literacy and justice for all?

• Religion and Race among Democrats and Republicans

• Other Country's Success at Reducing Poverty

• The Politics of Discovery: Whose observation count?

• Case Study: Racism without Racists

• 'Missing White Girl Syndrome': Despite pleas, missing boy falls by wayside

• Why No One Cares About the White Jesus of Mitt Romney's Mormonism

• How To Have Civil Conversations About Race

• God Doesn’t Need our Political Endorsement

• "I cant afford to trust most white Christians": James Baldwin [Video]

• The Majority of Food Stamp Recipients are Working Full Time

• Case Study: How Hard Should You Push Diversity?
• Thanks for the rec, Justin!

• The Neuroscience of Conditioned Racism
• Also from Justin!

• At the Risk of Sounding Angry: On Melissa Harris-Perry’s Eloquent Rage

• How do we address microaggressions at our children’s schools?  Ask 'LIE'

• Racialized Representations of Evolution

• Jason Chu On The La Jolla Playhouse Controversy

• Why Atheism Plus Is Good for Atheism
• An interesting correlation to the conversations Christians need to be having
• Thanks to Maxine for the heads up!

• Actor Amy Poehler Stars in California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights PSA

• Ruchi & Dave: A beautiful testimony of a multicultural wedding
• Thanks for the rec, Diane!

• Two Young Black Poets From Philly on Hipster Racism [Video]

• In Mitt Romney's pro-America rhetoric is subtle message that Barack Obama is not

• Fraudulent Freedom and the Needs of the Poor

• Immigrants Make Up Same Share of U.S. Population Today as They Did a Century Ago

• Impossible to be Colorblind

• Lupe Fiasco Breaks Down Watching 2006 MTV Interview Near Home

• It's not just the Food! Come to the table

• Why Open Door's Aren't Enough: 'Open Doors Policy' pitfall

• Walmart Greeter Condemned: Double standards and the privilege of simple pleasures

• South Carolina Supreme Court returns Native child to father

• 60 Percent of Louisiana Prison Doctors Disciplined by State Med Board

• Quakers church repudiates Doctrine of Discovery

• The Weight: Identifying with our neighbors

• Guest In A Strange House: The Racialicious Review Of The Prep School Negro

• An Olympic-Sized Income Gap Among Our World Class Athletes

• Where’s Gabby’s Dad? He’s Right Where He’s Supposed to Be

• Former Undocumented Immigrant Leo Manzano Wins Silver Medal for U.S.

• Sexism, Racism, And Swimming At The London 2012 Olympics

• Olympic Overcomers: Three the Hard Way

• Even as we celebrate world harmony, tragedy strikes: 
• Not Senseless, Not Random: The Deadly Mix of Race, Guns & Madness
• The Difference Between Muslims and Sikhs.. Misses the Point

• A Brief Guide to This Summer’s Unexpected U.S. Olympians of Color

• On the Olympics & Being Indigenous

• There Are Olympians Without Countries—And Millions of Regular People, Too

• Who do you root for? Cheering athletes of color

• The First Asian American Gold Medalist: Sammy Lee

• Breakfast of Stereotypes: Not what Champions should eat

• Gabby Douglas:
• Interview at Valley Church
• via Alvin Sanders
• Wasn’t Thinking About The History She Was Making
• Wins Gold, Gives Glory to God

• The Straight Truth About Multiracial Worship

• Media Coverage of Mass Murders

• Notes on how NOT to write about Native Americans
• Also this week from Abagond: Native Europeans

• Does familiarity breed unity?: Implications for multicultural worship

• Representation of primitive 'other' and modernized selves

• Selective First Amendment Rights: It doesn't just apply to Christians

• Abusive Border Patrol: How Do You Call the Cops on the Cops?

• Stop pretending racism is over: Kenny Wiley shares his perspective

• Judge Terminates Detained Mom’s Rights, Allows Missouri Couple to Adopt

• ‘10 Frisk Commandments’ from Jasiri X

• Olympic 'Slums': Housing for Migrant Workers in London

• Young Fan Recreates Beyoncé’s ‘Countdown’ Shot for Shot

• Physical Churches: Do They Matter Anymore?

• On doing multi-ethnic worship: When Taco Night becomes Taco Worship

• Beyond the ‘Single Story’: African Lit Into Crowdsourced Comics

• Including Racial History in School: Good ideas....and not so good ones

• Awol Erizku's beautiful photography

• Celebrate Inter-dependence Day

• Chris Rock Criticized: “White People's Independence Day”

• The Cultural Imperialism Bingo Card: BINGO!

• Christianity's Strange Fruit: Alabama 'Whites Only' Christian Conference
• We may discuss this more in its own post this week. Thanks for the heads up, Dan. 

• WWII Editorial Cartoons in the Black Press

• What the SCOTUS Ruling Means for the Health of People of Color

• Three Kinds of White Racist: Which are you?

• Beautiful film about three DREAMers

• Kumbaya Anti-Racism

• Is a “black evangelical” a contradiction in terms? 

• Introducing Congregations to Mulitcultural Worship: Proskuneo's great vlog guide

• IVCF: What Community Colleges Teach Us

• Is my worship conditional?

• The Stories Behind the Picture: Getting to know our neighbors

• Respectful Political Dialogue: Nuns on the Bus Hits Rep. Paul Ryan's Wisconsin Office

• Juneteenth and the Reality of Emancipation

• Adidas ‘Shackle Shoes’ Get The Boot

• How Race Changes The Relationship Between Religion and Politics

• The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk [Video]

• Count The Trees: A Measure of Income Inequality

• Apology 101: A great breakdown of good and bad apologies

• Multilungual Worship: Encouraging words from the previous choir director

• Southern Baptists Then And Now

• Audra McDonald Makes History At The Tony Awards

• Support Dear White People

• Asian Americans and Unemployment

• Can a Map Be Ethnocentric?

• The Foreclosure Crisis: It is Time for the Church to Create an Act of God

• Incarceration on the Cheep in Louisiana

• Brotherhood: Jan Paron's current series

• White Privilege Will Be Televised: And Kids Are Still Watching

• Human Rights Record of United States in 2011: An outside perspective

• Presidential Metal of Freedom to Toni Morrison, Dolores Huerta

• ‘Awkward Black Girl’ Season 2: Preview trailer

• Will Smith's Parenting Philosophy

• Black Churches Welcome New Latino Communities

• How I’m Changing the World: Being a leader as an Asian American woman at IVCF.

• Proposed Book Project: ‘My White Friends’ Explores Photography’s Description of Race

• Story Behind the Little Boy Who Had a Special Oval Office Moment

• The Story Behind The Banjo Lesson

• Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

• Florida Black Woman Gets 20 Years After Failed ‘Stand Your Ground’ Defence

• Entitlement: Let Them Eat Cake

• Race and the Media: Changing the Story with a Stroke of a Key

• Colorism and the "Science" of Beauty

• Kelley Williams-Bolar: Long, Winding Fight to Educate Her Daughters

• The Criminal Cost of Talking to a Loved One Behind Bars

• In Remembrance: Elward Ellis

• Digging into the Archives: Good insights and reminders following UMC General Conference. 

• Why Tea Party Lawmakers Are Trying to Conflate Poverty and Drug Addiction

• Undoing Houston’s Racism: A Pastor’s Apology

• Reduce, Reuse, Repent: Earth Day Revival Amuses and Transforms

• Defining Racism in the 21st Century: New series from Ramon Mayo
• (featuring a contribution by BTSF!)

• LoGOFF: Anti-Human Trafficking Video Series

• No Charges for Border Patrol Officer Who Killed Mexican Teen: History repeats

• Children of the L.A. Riots Share Memories: Video testimonials

• 'Nude' and Racial Marginalization: An old meme crashes the wedding industry

• Want To Report Airport Racial Profiling? There’s an App for That

• 10 reasons Why Men Should Not Be Ordained For Ministry

• Challenging the Stereotypes of African Men

• 20 Years Later: Live-Tweeting the L.A. Riots as They Happened

• Do These Lives Matter? The weight of  'tragedy' home and abroad

• Practicing Resurrection: Turning Vacant Lots Into Gardens in Philadelphia

• Where Does Success REALLY Come From? 

• The Historical context of Residential Segregation

• Racial Make-Up of Jury Pool Impacts Trial Outcome‎

• Media Reporting of Trayvon Martin

• The Problem with the ‘Some of My Best Friends Are Black’ Defense

• Facebook update reveals problem of race and emergency work

• Skin Whitening in Modern Advertising

• Banks Let Black and Latino Foreclosed Homes Waste Away

• How to be a victim…Don't be black

• Muslim-American Comedians Want to Give Americans a Big Muslim Hug with this Movie [Video]

• A Story About Race From Neil DeGrasse Tyson [Video]: Really good for so many reasons!

• Slavery by Another Name [Video]: Fantastic documentary by Sam Pollard

• Ethnicity Matters [Video]: great video from IVCF

• From Appearance To Identity: How Census Data Collection Changed Race In America

• Urban Prep: Abagond's overview of a school with a vision.

• Blair Underwood in 'Who Do You Think You Are' [Video]: The Challenges and Surprises of Tracing African-American Genealogy

• The White Person’s Burden: Read her words and give your opinion

• Dear White Folks: Black People are Sensitive to Race. So? And? What? Really excellent!!

• We are NOT all in it together: Analysis of the numbers

• Faith Leaders Target Alabama's Immigration Bill With Ad: Turns the traditional rhetoric on its head!

• Selective Outrage: Once again Abagond breaks it down

• Google Imaging the Continents: Very telling

• Howard University Men in Hoodies School You on Racial Profiling [Video]

• Head Coverings as Common Practice: Not just for gangsters and terrorists

• On Morgan Freeman and “Just stop talking about it.”

• What Race Is Your Dog?: Using the 'b' word

• Rekia Boyd: Abagond reviews some of the most recent racialized killings
• Also Abagond on Kenneth Chamberlain, with a list at the bottom of the many others

• After adopting a black son, seeing the truth

• Entering Conversations About Race as a White Male: Matt Stauffer's (@stauffermatt) excellent testimony 
• Very similar to my own story.  

• Untitled-For Kadiatou Diallo: In reaction to Trayvon Martin and other such tragedies
• via @SideHustleStory

• The Broken Africa Stereotype: Explained by Abagond

• My 12-year old son knows he could be Trayvon: A mother's stirring reaction

• See also: Walking While Black

• Kony This: ‘Ghana ThinkTank’ Turns the Tables on White Saviors

• Ethnicity Matters: great video from IVCF

• EU recalls racist advertisement

• Happy Africans and Smiling Indians: defying 'overdetermination'

• Bloomberg Basically Admits NYPD Spied on Muslims For No Reason Other Than Religion

• Tithing: No Buts About It

• ACLU Sues School that Outed Native Teen’s Pregnancy

• Resisting A Segregated Church: Good read! Watch for an upcoming BTSF feature.

• We need to talk about racial injustice:  Bryan Stevenson
• Thanks to Kent for the first heads up!

• #StopKony: Activism Or Exploitation?
• Also: Ugandan Responds to Kony Campaign: ‘You Shouldn’t Be Telling My Story’

• Man Who Died in Massive Honduras Prison Fire Was Accidentally Deported

• Lakota Indians Block ‘Keystone XL Pipeline’ Trucks in Six-Hour Standoff

• Asian American Actors Are Missing On Broadway Stages

• New York’s Mostly Black and Latino Stop-and-Frisk Victims Speak Out

• Misrepresenting Crime in TV Documentaries

• Lil Kim's Light Tan Shirt Described As 'Nude'

• The Journey to Racial Reconciliation Is Not Over

• Defining Women's Oppression: The Burka vs the Bikini

• Georgia Rep. Fights Anti-Abortion Bill with ‘Anti-Vasectomy Act’

• Whitney: Victim Of The “Strong Black Woman” Stereotype

• Who are the Oscars Voters?: Yup! White men. 

• Beautiful! Watch Oscar nominated 'Chico y Rita.' (a little NSFW--cartoon nudity, language) 

• Whitney's "home going" and the spiritual divide: Otherizing, exoticising, and ignorance

• A Question of Identity: Good thoughts on the buzz surrounding Jeremy Lin
• Thanks to Carolyn for the rec!

• The Rhetoric of Luck Among the 99%: How did you get where you are?

• Listen to Lost Malcolm X Speech, 50 Years Later

• It’s Much Harder for Black and Latino Workers to Retire

• Deported Dad Begs North Carolina To Give Him Back His Children

• Ramarley Graham: Shot by police who broke into his home without a search warrant

• Racial Bias in Presidential Pardons

• Of Whitney Houston’s 6 Grammys, 4 Were Won in Now-Eliminated Categories

• R.I.P. Jimmie Begay: Navajo Code-Talker Dies at 88

• Defining “Evangelicals” in an Election Year: Left, Right, and Christ.

• Accord1: Multi-tiered ministry to bring reconciliation to the body of Christ

• The Red Flag: What's your relationship with the cops like?

• How Many Slaves Work for You?: An interactive calculation of your slavery footprint

• When a Christian Is Not Really a Christian: Double standard for those that commit violence.

• The Epistemology of Race Talk: Melissa Harris-Perry responds to critics

• The Most Racist Thing That (N)ever Happened

• Reconciled

• Why is the Church Reluctant to Preach Justice?

• Tucson Youth Group Hosts Their Own Chicano Studies Classes

• "You Speak English So Well" Good examination of this phrase

• Parents Afraid of Reporting Sexual Abuse to LA Sheriff Because They Fear Deportation

• The Racist Super Bowl Commercial You Might Have Missed

• “It’s hard to see racism when you’re white”: Un-Fair Campaign

• Ethnic Studies #WishiLearnedinHS Curriculum: Catch up on the stuff you should have learned

• Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sesame Street

• Whose Accent Counts? All Speak English with an Accent in the US

• Incarceration Statistics

• January 30: Fred Korematsu Day! Learn Your History

• "Your English is so good" "I was born in the USA"

• Ava DuVernay: Best Director Award At Sundance Film Festival

• I Continue to Fail “The Poor”

• Sale Cereal: Seasonal vs. Perpetual/Generational Poverty

• The 4709th Lunar New Year:  The year of the black water dragon

• Income Inequality Is Bad For Society: Really Bad.

• Voter Suppression: The New Disenfranchisement

• Slumlords Conspire To Avoid Building Maintenance

• The Racially Coded Language of Presidential Candidates

• NY Cops’ Camera Caught Them Allegedly Planting Evidence in Driver’s Car

• Why Racialicious Went On SOPA Strike: Good video!

• Sh*t People Say: a good collection of the socially minded meme
• Also "Why 'Sh*t White Girls say to black girls' Isn't Racist"
• And Sh*t Everybody Says To Rape Victims 

• On the Receiving End: Charity vs relationships

• Apologies on Discount: Non-apologies

• For-Profit Colleges’ Mostly Black and Latino Students Face Higher Debt and Unemployment

• The Dirtiest of Words on Capitol Hill: “Racism”

• Disabled Bodies and Ableist Acceptance

• "Fotoshop by Adobé" Beauty Product Parody

• Unemployment Rate Improved for Everyone in 2011, Except for Blacks

• Not everyone is laughing at "Sh*t White Girls Say To Black Girls"
• Thanks for the rec, Carolyn!

• Pvt. Danny Chen Driven to Suicide After Racist Bullying

• #OWS, Esther Choi, and the reaction to the death of Pvt. Danny Chen

• Calling Asians Racist Slurs on Fast Food Receipts is Now a National Trend

• Shaping the Election: New Hampshire Demographics vs. Rest of the USA (Iconograph)

• Target casually and respectfully incorporates 6-year-old model with Down syndrome

• End the Silence of Good People

• Retrofit Republic Celebrates Community Heroes

• No Winners of Color at the Emmys

• Impatiently Waiting: The search for a church committed to racial reconciliation doesn't go quickly.
• By @RevLadyCharChar recommended by @PeregrinaDiane  

• ICE Mistakenly Deports Dallas Teen Who Speaks No Spanish to Colombia ...yeah...

• Gordon Hirabayashi, 1918-2012 WWII Civil Rights Leader

• Immigrant Left Disabled In Work Accident Dies After Deportation

• United States: Leading Exporter of Racism:  Kenneth Clark demonstration repeated in Mexico

• Viola Davis: Oscars and Straight Talk

• Shane Claiborne: 12 Hopes for 2012

• Stuff White Girls Say: If you haven't seen it already, WATCH!

• Christian Industrial Complex: Another great essay by Shane
  Claiborne 

• Healthcare System and Immigration: a poignant case
• Thanks for the rec Cuddlymogwai!

• Race and Presidential Pardon: more disparity 

• Rob Bell's Parting Epistle to Mars Hill: really good!

• The Choice to Love: A Visit to C4AP

• Headcase: #Sidehustle/#mainhustle tension by @PermanentlyMark

• The Hurtful Santa: Is secret layaway Santa doing the right thing? 

• Being Christ in a Consumer Christmas: Concerned about the 'War on Christmas'?

• Why is the NYPD after me?  Young, black, and frisked

• White Privileged: "flesh colored"

• Hari Kondabolu: Racism vs. White Guilt

• Bait and Switch of Contemporaneity Christianity: Stop going to bible study

• #OWS Now in Color: black leaders announce '#Occupy the Dream'

• If I Were A White, Male Middle Aged Forbes Columnist: A response to Gene Marks

• Vote For Me! The politicization and manipulation of jesus, christians, and religion

• The Disappearance of the Compassionate Conservatives

• Awkward Black Girl’s No-pology to Transgender Fans and Allies

• The Failure of Racial Profiling

• For the Holidays: Send Some Love Through Prison Walls 

• NYPD Officers Post Blatantly Racist Hate Speech on Facebook

• Alabama Immigration Bill HB 56: Japanese Honda Employee Ticketed 

• Santa Claus and Black Face: Still not ok! 

• Gendering and Racializing Occupations: Very telling want ads

• Language of Adoption: From the Christian Community Development Association

• Adoption on 'Once Upon a Time': ABC's new show creates an unfortunate dichotomy

• Adoption and Identity: Essay from Pacifica Graduate Institute
• Thanks to Ceridwen for the rec!

• Exploring Herman Cain's remarks on African Americans & abortion
• Thanks to @PeregrinaDiane for the rec!

• How Birth Control And Abortion Became Politicized
• Thanks to @PeregrinaDiane for the rec!

• I Was A Racist: John Piper's racial testimony, including his story about adoption

• How To Be The Village: Candid advice for walking with friends who are adopting 
• Thanks to Carolyn for the rec!

• Bought Coloured Kids: Abagond and Kil Ja Kim on transracial adoption

• #Occupy 'astonishing opportunity for clergy', from UMC's Rev. Rich Lang

• Defining Fat: A look at BMI and what the labels really mean

• Can I Help?: Think twice before letting the kids help with the cooking this year!
• Thanks to @cityathena for passing this along!

• Reconciliation & Justice Daily: Follow for all the latest via @llhargrove!

• Racism, Moral Law and the Penn State Abuse Scandal

• Jay Smooth: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race

• Paramilitary attack on Occupy Wall Street: An Eye Witness Account

• Majority of White Evangelicals Oppose Cutting Federal Programs that help the Poor

• All This: an intriguing forum for 10-minute exchanges of time

• Love Isn't Enough: One of my favorite blogs, and it's all about parenting and race.

• The Business of Domestic Private Adoption: Valuing lives: why does it cost more to adopt a white child? (Sidenote: try googling "babies." Such a sea of white!)

• Dear white adoptive parents: open letter from Resist Racism

• Six Things Your Adopted Child Might Be Thinking But Will Never Tell You

• A Birth Project: "Transracial Adoption from one black girl’s perspective"

• Solid list of resources for adoption and transracial adoption

• More adoption resources!

• Does Race Still Matter? Playing the Blame Game: Check out the dedication! 

• Common Prayer: Recommendation from @ThePeacePastor

• Is Social Justice an Essential Part of the Gospel? Wallis and Mohler Debate

• Are Evangelical Christians Really Pro-Life? Tony Campolo has his doubts

• Using the term 'Multiculturalism': Definitely Salient for the Church\

• Native American Kids Removed from homes: South Dakota benefits when they're shuffled to foster care

• Moving Money: Investing in a New World: Shane Claiborne talks about 'protestifying'

• Hapa Student Association (HSA): great video from THE Ohio State University (Thx Redemption Boulevard!)

• Fetishizing People of Color: The downside to positive stereotypes (see also: Model Minority)

• Five Facts You Need to Know about Poverty in America

• White Scripts and Black Superman: Dwayne McDuffie on the struggles trying to bring Black characters to mainstream.

• BTSF was also featured this week on IVCF's blog: They'll Know We Are Christians

• ReNew Partnerships: Helping Christians of Different Ethnicities to Share Life and Ministry Together

• Redemption Boulevard: Discussion and resources for multicultural worship

• Fandom and it's Hatred of Black Women Characters: Relates to this week's BTSF posts

• Celebrating “Grace Day”: From Trying Harder and Doing More to a Culture of Grace

• NYPD Cop Taped Making Racial Slur just after frisking a young black man 

• Asian also = POC: an examination of the fallacy of black/white racism

• Building A Bridge: Pretty good video about racial divides. Thoughts readers?

• Six Myths You Probably Believe About Americas Enemies: Gives needed perspective on the constant doom & gloom

• I don’t want to see “Awkward Black Girl” on TV: Great points about a great show

• In and Out of the Zoo: Poignant consequences of a broken world

• Genocide Chic: Parody of racist fashion trends
• Relatedly, and submitted by a reader: Open Letter to the Clothing Industry About Diversity

• Touching Chocolate Hair: A very well-articulated open letter

• If you want black folks in your tent: On White Liberal Racists

• Lisa Sharon Harper answers, “What is an Evangelical?”: An excellent testimony of faith and justice

• Latinos Abandon Alabama Homes, Classrooms, Churches After HB 56: Like Arizona, but worse

• Asian Americans Finally in Commercials: but still highly stereotyped

• Defining “Evangelicals” in an Election Year: Left, Right, and Christ.

• Accord1: Multi-tiered ministry to bring reconciliation to the body of Christ

• The Red Flag: What's your relationship with the cops like?

• How Many Slaves Work for You?: An interactive calculation of your slavery footprint

• When a Christian Is Not Really a Christian: Double standard for those that commit violence.

• The Epistemology of Race Talk: Melissa Harris-Perry responds to critics

• White Students More likely to Win College Scholarships

• Ten Years Since the Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi, First 9/11 Hate Crime

• Racial Legacy of 9/11

• Uncovering the secrets of "Dark, Mysterious" Austria

• New Dutch Game show has Immigrants compete to Revel Unjust System

• Magnitude Handmade Bedding Advertisement