Emmanuel Acho sits down to have an “uncomfortable conversation” with white America, in order to educate and inform on racism, system racism, social injustice, rioting & the hurt African Americans are feeling today.
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Jennifer L. Eberhardt: How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it | TED Talk
Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society — from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice — and discusses how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address this troubling problem.
Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow from On Being with Krista Tippett on RadioPublic
The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don’t remember, and structures most of us can’t fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the “new Jim Crow,” and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling.
What if we ended the injustice of bail?
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don’t have enough money to pay bail. The sums in question are often around $500: easy for some to pay, impossible for others. This has real human consequences — people lose jobs, homes and lives, and it drives racial disparities in the legal system. Robin Steinberg has a bold idea to change this. In this powerful talk, she outlines the plan for The Bail Project — an unprecedented national revolving bail fund to fight mass incarceration. (This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
Holy Post – Race in America – Part 2
VIRTUAL: Critical Race Theory: The Fault Lines of Social Justice
Students and scholars will leave this webinar with a blueprint of how to hold productive conversations, unify communities that misunderstand each other, and connect Americans with varying viewpoints.
Support for the BLM Movement Surged Last Year. Did it Last?
A Series on George Floyd and America
A Year After George Floyd: Pressure to Add Police Amid Rising Crime
Los Angeles, like other cities across the nation, is facing a rise in gun violence. And the police budget is growing.
Let’s Talk About Racism
A Roundtable Discussion with Park Community Church Pastors, Jason LaLonde, Kensen Lam, and Nathan Payne
Reporter’s Notebook: Chicago Pastor Turns Gangsters’ Lives Around With Stunning Compassion
Pastor Corey Brooks’ ‘magic sauce’ is his compassionate form of judgment
How Chicago’s Affordable Housing System Perpetuates City’s Long History of Segregation
Government-backed affordable housing has largely been confined to majority Black neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty, perpetuating the city’s history of segregation.
The Social Construction of Racism in the United States
Eric Kaufmann
April 7, 2021