Melissa Silva and Andrea Poehl of BCS Be The Bridge BCS Race Talk

James speaks with Melissa Silva and Andrea Poehl of BCS Be the Bridge, an informal Christian network devoted to racial reconciliation in Bryan-College Station. They discuss implicit bias, individual and systemic racism, educational inequality, and what their religious faith has to do with racial reconciliation.

In our conversation Melissa mentioned a book by Austin Channing Brown. A link to that book can be found here: http://austinchanning.com/the-book

Check out BCS Be the Bridge's FB page here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BCSBetheBridge/

Also, here are some additional resources published over the past 20 years regarding educational inequality in our country according to race:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-and-education/
https://www.aecf.org/resources/race-matters1/
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal

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