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Hot Topics: Race Relations: Black Americans

Starting points

10 things we know about race and policing in the U.S.
Pew Research Center, 6/3/2020
1619 Project Podcasts
New York Times
Amid Protests, Majorities Across Racial and Ethnic Groups Express Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement
Pew Research Center, 6/12/2020
Black Americans Don’t Trust Medicine Because Of Racism. That’s Bad In A Pandemic.
Buzzfeed News, 5/4/2020
For black Americans, experiences of racial discrimination vary by education level, gender
Pew Research Center, 5/2/2019
No progress for African Americans on homeownership, unemployment and incarceration in 50 years
Washington Post, 2/26/18
Polling highlights stark gap in trust of police between black and white Americans
CNN, 6/2/2020
Reparations for Slavery
CQ Researcher report, 8/23/2019
Teaching About George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
NPR, 6/4/2020
Black Students in Illinois Are Far More Likely to Be Ticketed by Police for School Behavior Than White Students
ProPublica, 2022

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)

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

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

In the News

Media

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Documentary series.
Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class
Documentary.
America after Ferguson
PBS Panel Discussion.
Black Ballerina
Documentary.
The Colour of Beauty
Documentary.
Eyes on the Prize
Documentary series.
I am a man: black masculinity in America
Documentary.
I am not your negro
Documentary.
Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Documentary.
NPR: In Black America
Podcast.
Profiled
Documentary.
Slavery by Another Name
Documentary.
The Black Church
PBS Documentary - Two Episodes
John Lewis : Good Trouble
Documentary
MLK/FBI
Documentary

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