History of Police

• How the U.S. Got Its Police Force

• The History of Policing in the United States

• Early police in the United States

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Tear Gas

• The Very Real Health Impacts of Tear Gas

• Tear gas has been banned in warfare. Why do police still use it?

• Chemical Weapons Convention

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KKK

• Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK

• The Ku Klux Klan

• Ku Klux Act Passed by Congress

• Ku Klux Klan A History of Racism and Violence

• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

• Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism

• The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

• When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets

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Proactive Policing

• Camden City Experiences Historic Drop In Crime Rate, New Study Claims

• Camden Sees Crime Drop Over Past Decade

• What Happened to Crime in Camden?

• Studies Show 'Proactive Policing' Works, But Social Cost Less Clear

• NYC cops did a work stop, yet crime dropped

• The criminogenic and psychological effects of police stops on adolescent black and Latino boys

• In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

• More cops. Is it the answer to fighting crime?

• The Problem with “Broken Windows” Policing

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Systemic Racism

• ‌WHAT IS SYSTEMIC RACISM? [VIDEOS]

• America's Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism

• A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

• Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination

• Redlining's legacy: Maps are gone, but the problem hasn't disappeared

• How Educators Can Break Cycles of Redlined Segregation

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Confederate Flag

• Confederate Flag

• Bubba Wallace Thankful for Flag Ban, but NASCAR’s Fans Might Not Be

• Myths & Misunderstandings | The Confederate Flag

• 8 things you didn’t know about the Confederate flag

• Confederate States of America

• Marines ban depictions of the Confederate flag

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Trump's History of Racism

• Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2019

• Timeline: Donald Trump has been getting called racist since 1973

• An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry

• The Ever-Growing List of Trump’s Most Racist Rants

• The 15 most offensive things that have come out of Trump’s mouth

• Here Are 16 Examples Of Donald Trump Being Racist

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Juneteenth

• What Is Juneteenth (PBS)

• Juneteenth World Wide Celebration

• The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth

• What is Juneteenth (NYT)

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Implicit Bias in Healthcare

• Infant Mortality Rate (CIA)

• US Maternal Health (UNICEF)

• US has the worst rate of child mortality among 20 rich nations

• Sex, Race, and Ethnic Diversity of U.S. Health Occupations (2011-2015)

• How does implicit bias by physicians affect patients' health care?

• IMPLICIT BIAS IN HEALTH CARE

• Physicians and Implicit Bias: How Doctors May Unwittingly Perpetuate Health Care Disparities

• Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

• ‌WHAT IS SYSTEMIC RACISM? [VIDEOS]

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities Continue in Pregnancy-Related Deaths

• Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

• What Is the Status of Women’s Health and Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Ten Other Countries?

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The Tulsa Race Massacre

• Nearly 100 Years After Tulsa Massacre, City Plans to Search Cemetery for Victims

• What to Know About the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre

• 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

• The massacre of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street" (Video)

• 99 years ago today, America was shaken by one of its deadliest acts of racial violence

• TULSA RACE MASSACRE.

• One of America’s worst acts of racial violence was in Tulsa. Now, it’s the site of Trump’s first rally in months

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Reparations

• Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson on reparations for slavery - BBC Newsnight​

• Reparations thread calls upon privileged to support BIPOC in time of COVID-19 need

• Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

• Calls for reparations gain steam as U.S. reckons with racial injustice

• How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue

• When Slaveowners Got Reparations

• For 60th Year, Germany Honors Duty to Pay Holocaust Victims

• Op-Ed: Germany paid Holocaust reparations. Will the U.S. do the same for slavery?

• What US slavery reparations and post-Holocaust Germany have in common

• H.R. 40 Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice.

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"Reverse Racism"

• Racism Definition

• What is racism?

• Myth of reverse racism

• Here's why 'reverse racism' doesn't actually exist in the US

• Is reverse racism really a thing?

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

• The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

• Transatlantic slave trade

• Slavery and Freedom

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

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America: "Greatest" Country

• Quality of life

• Language and Literacy in the US

• How Serious Is America's Literacy Problem?

• U.S. Students Show No Improvement in Math, Reading, Science on International Exam

• PISA

• OECD

• How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries?

• CIA

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Founding Fathers

• Thomas Jefferson

• Sally Hemings

• Monticello

• The Founding Fathers and Slavery

• The Constitution and Slavery

• Founding Father and Slaveholders

• Mount Vernon

• James Madison's Lessons in Racism

• The Enslaved Household of President James Madison

• Ben Franklin (PBS)

• Slavery and the Abolition Society

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ALEC

• ALEC Exposed

• What is ALEC? 'The most effective organization' for conservatives, says Newt Gingrich

• Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected

• State Legislatures and ALEC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

• Find your legislators

• ALEC Doesn’t Care About #FreeMarkets – Explaining ALEC’s Shill Bills

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Support Black-Owned Businesses

• Nile

• Support Black Owned

• African American Literature Club

• EatOkra

• Black-Owned Brooklyn

• We Buy Black

• Black Nation

• Official Black Wall Street

• WhereU Came From

• I Am Black Businesses

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Trump University

• Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think

• Judge finalizes $25 million Trump University settlement for students of 'sham university'

• Federal court approves $25 million Trump University settlement

• Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement

• What Trump University Was Really Like, According To A Former Professor

• New York Attorney General On Trump University: This Is A 'Fraud Case' | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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The School to Prison Pipeline

• School to Prison Pipeline | Youth for RISE Advocacy Network | TEDxYouth@RVA

• The school-to-prison pipeline is getting worse for black and brown girls

• SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE: “BLACK KIDS GET COPS, WHITE KIDS GET DOCS”

• The school to prison pipeline, explained (JPI)

• Ohio boy suspended for pointing finger like a gun. ‘Zero tolerance’ run amok?

• SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE (ACLU)

• School to Prison Pipeline (NYT)

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The USPS

• Trump Attacks Vote-by-Mail and the U.S. Postal Service | The Daily Social Distancing Show

• The USPS' Lack of Support Will Hit People of Color Hardest

• Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans

• What's going on with the post office? Here's what we know

• US election: Do postal ballots lead to voting fraud?

• Minuscule number of potentially fraudulent ballots in states with universal mail voting undercuts Trump claims about election risks

• Trump Campaign Exaggerates Potential for Mail-In Voting Fraud After Election

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Origins of the American Prison System

• American History, Race, and Prison

• The True History of America's Private Prison Industry

• Beyond the Prison Bubble

• How Did Our Prisons Get That Way?

• Historical Origin of the Prison System in America

• 13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix

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Private Prisons

• The True History of America's Private Prison Industry

• Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. Growth in Private Prisons

• The Problem with Private Prisons

• Too Good to be True Private Prisons in America

• EMERGING ISSUES PRIVATIZED PRISONS

• Calling Out Companies That Use Prison Labor