WATCH
You can watch videos from the conference here.
Videos of Our Speakers:
Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva offers some suggestions to white Americans who want to challenge the systems and institutions that give them privileges based on skin color.
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The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas finds a lesson about racial privilege in the story of Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well.
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Trinity Videos on Race:
In this excerpt of his speech at the first of the Pre-TI Dialogues series, Bryan Stevenson, attorney, author, and advocate, urges us to change the narrative of racial difference created to justify slavery that still infects our country today.
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The Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Makgoba, whose family was forcibly relocated when he was a teenager by the apartheid government and who is now Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has some practical advice for discussions about race and justice: start small.
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Larry White, who runs a program inside New York prisons called Hope Lives for Lifers, once served a 25 years-to-life sentence and has a few recommendations, born of experience, of how a society should deal with crime and punishment.
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READ
To help you get a taste of Trinity Institute and prepare for the rich conversations at this year’s conference on racial justice, below is a list of reading recommendations. These books from some of our speakers as well as other important voices are a great preface to the issues that we’ll discuss at TI2016, including structural racism, mass incarceration, and policy change.
Books by our speakers:
![]() Michele Norris (bio)
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![]() Nicholas Kristof (bio) & Sheryl WuDunn
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![]() Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (bio)
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![]() Emilie Townes (bio)
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![]() Kelly Brown Douglas (bio)
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![]() Kelly Brown Douglas (bio)
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![]() Victor Rios (bio)
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![]() Anna Deavere Smith (bio)
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![]() Anna Deavere Smith (bio)
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Other Suggested Reading:
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