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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 2024
Statistics and report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2024
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

8 Facts about Black Lives Matter
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Pew Research Center, 2023
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
Trayvon Martin’s death set off a movement that shaped a decade’s defining moments
Washington Post, 2022

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
NAACP
The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights 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

History

Media

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.
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