Fighting Racism Locally with Marlena Graves -- Episode 02

Racism in America doesn't only affect Black people. The centering of the white experience means that it has also affected Indigenous, Latinx, and Hispanic populations among others. In this episode, I talk with Marlena Graves as she walks us through some of America's history of racism and the easiest step locally to begin fighting against white supremacy and supporting people of color.

Full transcript available here.

Marlena Graves (M.Div), Marlena is a bi-racial Puerto-Rican. She is the author of The Way Up Is Down: Finding Yourself by Forgetting Yourself (IVP, July 2020), Enneagram 9 Daily Readings (IVP, Winter 2021), A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness (Brazos Press, 2014), Who's My Neighbor: Loving Our Neighbors as God Loves Us (Discovery House Publishers), and over 200 articles in a variety of venues. She is pursuing her PhD in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University with a focus on Evangelicals and race, immigration, poverty and possibly gender. She lives in the Toledo, OH area with her husband and three daughters.

Website and Social Media Links

Website: marlenagraves.com

Twitter: twitter.com/marlenagraves 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marlena.graves/