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Videos
- 504 Demonstration CBS Evening News (YouTube) – CBS new report on the Section 504 Protest
- Bias in American Schools – Kate Gerson (YouTube)
- Constitutional Tales (from NC State Board of Education meeting) (audio only)
- Foundations of Race (YouTube)
- The Hate You Give (YouTube)
- Implicit Bias: Concepts Unwrapped (Texas McCombs, The University of Texas at Austin)
- Inclusion Starts With I (Accenture) – is a discussion around the importance of a positive, inclusive work environment. Starring a group of Accenture people, this video demonstrates that bias can appear in both expected and unexpected ways—and that each of us has the power to make a difference.
- The Innovation Project – Courageous Leadership Webinar Series
- The Invisible Gorilla video – a quick and simple demonstration of selective attention and how we can miss a great deal even when attempting to pay close attention
- The Legacy of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow
- The Power of 504 documentary (YouTube)
- Schools & Social Inequality: Crash Course Sociology #41 (YouTube)
- A Tale of O: On Being Different – highlights the “cost” of being different in any situation
- UNC Health Science Library Off the Shelf Webinar Series
- Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Jessica Ingram -In her book “Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial,” images of those places are interspersed with oral histories from victims’ families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance. She transforms the way we regard both what has happened and what’s happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.
- Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Tanya Harmer and Katherine Marino
Tanya Harmer, author of “Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America.”
Katherine Marino, author of “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement” - Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles
Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” - Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Tyler D. Parry, Scheduled for November 19, 2020
Tyler D. Parry discusses his book “Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual”
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Emmanuel Acho
- Under Our Skin (The Seattle Times)
- Understanding Microaggressions (Wisconsin Technical College)
- White people challenge by Jane Elliott
- Why Equity Matters in Education (YouTube)
Films/Documentaries
- 13th: How the prison system mainly targets blacks and PoC, and is a new form of slavery and oppression (Netflix)
- 16 Shots – political fallout from the killing, which dominated Chicago headlines for years, and the historic guilty verdict
- 3rd grade class Divided: 3rd grade classroom – blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment by Jane Elliott (PBS Frontline 1hr documentary)
- A Class Divided (PBS)
- Black Power Mix Tape – examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers
- The Color of Fear
- Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (PBS)
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity (World Trust)
- Dear White People -an American comedy-drama television series on Netflix that follows several black college students at an Ivy League institution, touching on issues surrounding modern American race relations.
- The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson – investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson
- The Every Girl: 29 Movies, Shows, and Documentaries to Watch to Educate Yourself on Racial Injustice
- Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-65 (PBS)
- I am Not Your Negro – collection of notes and letters written by Baldwin in the mid-1970s. The memoir recounts the lives of his close friends and civil rights leaders Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers.
- Just Mercy (Amazon Prime)
- Let the Fire Burn – about the stand-off between Philly PD and a black liberation group
- Red Table Talk– The Racial Divide: Women of Color & White Women with Jane Elliott
- The tough topic of race relations between women with famed diversity educator Jane Elliott
- Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (World Trust)
- Picture a Scientist (Tribeca Film Festival 2020) – Documentary about three women scientists, how they overcame challenges in the workplace and are working to make the science research environment more diverse, equitable, and open to all
- When They See Us – fictional, based on the Central Park case in 1989 where black teens were falsely accused of raping a jogger
Podcasts
- 1619 – a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery
- Affirm Podcast – This biweekly mental health podcast is for women of color who seek wholeness through affirming their worth and placing value on their mental health
- American Police – NPR, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system
- Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
- Brené with Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Color Blind or Color Brave | Mellody Hobson | TED2014
- Doctors’ Unconscious Bias Affects Quality Of Health Care Services, Research Shows (NPR)
- Everyday Black Men Podcast Join Riker, R. Reed, and Armstead as they discuss topics from the viewpoints of three everyday black men. From the latest in pop culture to black thoughts and relationship problems, there is no topic too controversial
- Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TEDWomen 2017
- How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them | Vernā Myers | TEDxBeaconStreet
- Into the Fold: The Past Does Matter Post-Traumatic Space Syndrome
- It’s About Time We Challenge Our Unconscious Biases | Juliette Powell | TEDxStLouisWomen
- Learning for Justice | Podcasts
- Learning How to See – This podcast uses a Christian, contemplative approach to dismantling systemic bias
- The Most Sacred Right, NPR Throughline
- Re/Collecting Chapel Hill: James Cates. Silent Sam Part 2. – This Re/Collecting Chapel Hill podcast episode shares the story of James Cates. The episode features Mike Ogle’s research and the voices of community members who knew Cates, including those with him when he died.
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition
- Seeing White by John Biewen. Center for Documentary Studies
- Talking Race With Young Children
TED Talks
- “The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History” David Ikard
- “How America’s Public Schools Keep Children in Poverty” Kandice Summer
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” Peggy McIntosh
- “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldy toward them” Verna Meyers
- “Let’s get to the root of racial injustice” Megan Ming Francis
- “The Symbols of Systemic Racism and how to take away their power” Paul Rucker
- “We need to Talk about an Injustice” Bryan Stevenson