Wilshire has been selected to participate in In Deed and Truth: Interrogating the Legacies of the White Church in America (IDAT), a program aimed at fostering reconciliation and healing by examining the history of racism in Southern churches. Launched in 2023 by...

Wilshire welcomes Rev. Dr. Michael Waters. On Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7:00 p.m., Wilshire’s newest book club will be joined on Zoom by Rev. Dr. Michael Waters for a discussion of his book, Stakes Is High. A local pastor, civil rights historian, activist and community...

Videos and written resources from Wilshire George Mason on death of George Floyd and protests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3Y6MU5V8k George Mason: Racism is America’s original sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnBQh_Ag04 Mark Wingfield: Bible study on...

“America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic (May 8, 2020) The 1619 Project (all articles), New York Times Magazine “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston, Vox (May 28, 2019) “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Ibram X. Kendi, The...

Follow these organizations on social media: Antiracism Center (Twitter) Black Women’s Blueprint (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) Color Of Change (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) Equal Justice Initiative (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) Families Belong...

1619 (New York Times) 1865 About Race Code Switch (NPR) Intersectionality Matters! Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast Seeing White

BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)  If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) Selma (Ava Duvernay, 2014) 13th (Ava Duvernay, 2016). When They See Us (Ava...

Recommended Books Nonfiction Alexander, Michelle.  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindedness. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Brown, Austin Channing. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a...