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Hot Topics: Race Relations

Statistics & Analysis

50 years after the Kerner Commission
Report from the Economic Policy Institute, 2/26/18
Economic Policy Institute: African Americans
National Black (African American) History Month: February 2022
Statistics and report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2022
NPR Report: Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of African Americans
Based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, October 2017
Pew Research Center: African Americans

Helpful websites & organizations

100 Black Men of America
Largest network of African American male mentors in the nation
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Color of Change
An online racial justice organization
National Black Justice Coalition
Dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS
National Museum of African American History & Culture
National Urban League
Works to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights
Trayvon Martin Foundation
Works to spread awareness about gun violence and to support families who have lost a child to gun violence
NAACP
The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization

History

American Founders by Christina Proenza-Coles
ISBN: 9781588383310
Publication Date: 2019-03-15
Banking on Freedom by Shennette Garrett-Scott
ISBN: 9780231545211
Publication Date: 2019-04-15
The Black Panther Party in a City near You by Judson Jeffries (Editor)
ISBN: 9780820351995
Publication Date: 2018-02-01
From Here to Equality by A. Kirsten Mullen; William A. Darity
ISBN: 9781469654973
Publication Date: 2020-04-20
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford
ISBN: 9780813178271
Publication Date: 2019-10-28
Making Black History by Jeffrey Snyder
ISBN: 9780820351841
Publication Date: 2018-04-01
Strategies of Segregation by David G. García
ISBN: 9780520969179
Publication Date: 2018-01-05
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates; Henry Louis Gates
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
From Slave Cabins to the White House by Koritha Mitchell
Like Wildfire : The Rhetoric of Civil Rights Sit-ins by Sean Patrick O'Rourke (Editor); Lesli K. Pace (Editor)

Black Lives Matter Movement

Beyond the hastags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice
Center for Media & Social Impact, American University
Black Lives Matter
Homepage for the Black Lives Matter movement
How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter
New York Times, 6/10/2020
How the Black Lives Matter Movement Went Mainstream
Washington Post, 6/9/2020
Support for Black Lives Matter movement is declining, according to new poll
NBC News, 2021
Trayvon Martin’s death set off a movement that shaped a decade’s defining moments
Washington Post, 2022

The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron
ISBN: 9780190910754
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter by Sandra E. Weissinger (Editor)
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels; Toluse Olorunnipa