RESOURCE LIST - DIGITAL

Below are lists of videos, movies, podcasts, and online articles that can assist you in expanding your knowledge of other races, cultures and experiences.

ARTICLES, WEBSITES & VIDEOS

Please note that some of the listings below, particularly the Last Week Tonight episodes, contain profane language.

The 1619 Project (overview of the impact and consequences of slavery)

The Equal Justice Initiative (information on the legacy of lynching and the discriminatory practices in mass incarceration)

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (tips for talking about race)

Article on Muscular Empathy from the Atlantic

Article on Problems with Cultural Appropriation from Everyday Feminism

Liberatory Design (offers mindsets and modes to design for equity)

The Providers' Council (Race, Equity and Inclusion glossary)

Crash Course Black History Preview and the Crash Course Black History Playlist (educational highlights of Black history)

Segregated by Design (video and article that examines the history of segregation through law and policy, from the author of "The Color of Law")

Last Week Tonight: Hair (disparities and discrimination around Black hair)

Last Week Tonight: Asian Americans (history of Asian Americans in the US and differences by countries)

Last Week Tonight: US History (how race often is and is not taught in schools)

Last Week Tonight: Bias in Medicine (covers discrimination facing women and Black people in medicine)

Last Week Tonight: Immigration Courts (delays in immigration and classification of courts)

Movies and Documentaries

13th explores the history of racial inequality in the US, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with Black people.
13th explores the history of racial inequality in the US, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with Black people.
Harvest of Empire explores the political events, social conditions and US government actions that led millions of Latinos to leave their homelands and move to America.
Harvest of Empire explores the political events, social conditions and US government actions that led millions of Latinos to leave their homelands and move to America.
I Am Not Your Negro looks at James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript about the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Am Not Your Negro looks at James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript about the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stateless is a searing documentary of over 2,000 cases of Vietnamese refugees who spent over 17 years in the Phillippines without legal status.
Stateless is a searing documentary of over 2,000 cases of Vietnamese refugees who spent over 17 years in the Phillippines without legal status.
In 1965, Selma, AL became the battleground in the fight for suffrage for Black in this country. This film looks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his followers, despite the violent opposition, pressing forward in an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.
In 1965, Selma, AL became the battleground in the fight for suffrage for Black in this country. This film looks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his followers, despite the violent opposition, pressing forward in an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.
True Justice is an HBO documentary that follows Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative's struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.
True Justice is an HBO documentary that follows Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative's struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.
Raised in the South, activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland fights against segregation, being fully invested in the movement by the age of 19 in An Ordinary Hero.
Raised in the South, activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland fights against segregation, being fully invested in the movement by the age of 19 in An Ordinary Hero.
When a young Black man visits his White girlfriend's family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation in the modern horror film, Get Out.
When a young Black man visits his White girlfriend's family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation in the modern horror film, Get Out.
Native America, a four-part series on PBS, combines modern science with Native knowledge, spotllighting these ancient cultures and the communities that still thrive today.
Native America, a four-part series on PBS, combines modern science with Native knowledge, spotllighting these ancient cultures and the communities that still thrive today.
When They See Us is based on events of the April 19, 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted for the sexual assault of a female victim.
When They See Us is based on events of the April 19, 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted for the sexual assault of a female victim.
This documentary explores the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, which was initially greeted with skepticism.
This documentary explores the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, which was initially greeted with skepticism.
Dear White People is a satirical examination of race, following the stories of four Black college students where a riot breaks out over a racially offensive Halloween party.
Dear White People is a satirical examination of race, following the stories of four Black college students where a riot breaks out over a racially offensive Halloween party.
I'm Leaving Now is an intimate portrait of one undocumented worker who has three jobs to send money home to his family in Mexico. But what is the price of a better life if they don't want him to return?
I'm Leaving Now is an intimate portrait of one undocumented worker who has three jobs to send money home to his family in Mexico. But what is the price of a better life if they don't want him to return?
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, through the use of her cancer cells, unwittingly led to breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever.
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, through the use of her cancer cells, unwittingly led to breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever.
In 1957, segregation in schools ended with a group of students known as the Little Rock Nine. Inequalities still exist in American schools but some are working to change the system.
In 1957, segregation in schools ended with a group of students known as the Little Rock Nine. Inequalities still exist in American schools but some are working to change the system.
Three brilliant Black women at NASA serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of an astronaut into orbit and turning around the Space Race.
Three brilliant Black women at NASA serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of an astronaut into orbit and turning around the Space Race.
The Sentence is a documentary that explores the devastating consequences of mass incarceration and mandatory minimum drug sentencing through the story and struggle of one family.
The Sentence is a documentary that explores the devastating consequences of mass incarceration and mandatory minimum drug sentencing through the story and struggle of one family.
Based on a true story, three mixed-race girls are taken from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away as a part of an Australian policy to integrate them into White society.
Based on a true story, three mixed-race girls are taken from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away as a part of an Australian policy to integrate them into White society.
In Under the Same Moon, a single mother leaves her young son to cross the border into the US. When his grandmother passes, the boy begins a difficult and dangerous journey to join her.
In Under the Same Moon, a single mother leaves her young son to cross the border into the US. When his grandmother passes, the boy begins a difficult and dangerous journey to join her.
On New Year's Day 1923, a White lynch mob stormed the almost entirely Black town of Rosewood, Florida in one of the deadliest lynchings in US history.
On New Year's Day 1923, a White lynch mob stormed the almost entirely Black town of Rosewood, Florida in one of the deadliest lynchings in US history.

PODCASTS

Code Switch (fearless conversations about race)

Seeing White (diving into questions about whiteness and White people)

Pod Save the People (activism, social justice, culture and politics)

1619 (examining the long shadow of American slavery)

Throughline (examining history to understand the present)

Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood)

Nice White Parents (a five-part series about building a better school system)

Still Processing (intersection of race and culture)

Yo, Is This Racist? (review of messages to determine if they are racist)

The Stoop. (stories from across the Black Diaspora)

Teaching Hard History (examining unpopular aspects of Black history in America)

History is US (Eddie Glaude explores the intersection of race and history in America)