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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Melissa Silva and Andrea Poehl of BCS Be The Bridge

James chats with Roukaya Mabizari, newly minted Texas A&M University alumna class of 2019! 

Roukaya shares her experiences growing up as a Muslim American in a diverse neighborhood in Houston, and her time here at TAMU, including a case of profiling that resulted in an encounter with two FBI agents.

Mabizari volunteered as a court appointed special advocate (CASA) in Bryan-College Station. To learn more about the organization which facilitates this program on behalf of foster care children, please check out the following website:
http://vfcbrazos.org/

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Roukaya Mabizari

James sits down with Rebecca Hankins, associate professor and library archivist at Texas A&M University, about the need to recapture the histories of minorities' contribution to our society, the presence of Muslim African Americans in antebellum United States, and the Matthew Gaines statue initiative on TAMU campus.

Learn more about the Matthew Gaines statue campaign here:
https://studentaffairs.tamu.edu/students/matthew-gaines-statue/

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Rebecca Hankins

BCS Race Talk explores racial identity and race relations in Bryan-College Station. Hosted by James Cho, an educator and media researcher, each episode features guests from the community having conversations about race in an increasingly multiracial society.

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