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

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.