A Blueprint for Reparations in the U.S.
A TED talk, featuring a conversation with William “Sandy” Darity, an economist and author of From Here to Equality, who discusses how... Read More
A Case for Color Blindness
A TED Talk, featuring writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes, who makes a case in favor of the idea of color blindness,... Read More
Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class
A documentary that examines the efforts of black families to pursue the American dream in the face of unrelenting barriers. Through dramatic... Read More
America’s Native Prisoners of War
A TED talk featuring Aaron Huey, who shares his efforts to photograph poverty on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggles... Read More
An Artist’s Unflinching Look at Racial Violence
A TED talk featuringSanford Biggers who uses painting, sculpture, video and performance to spark conversations about the history and trauma of black... Read More
An Outrage
One of numerous films from the Southern Poverty Law Center, this 33 minute documentary focuses on the phenomenon of lynching in this... Read More
And Then They Came for Us
Tells the story of Presidential Executive Order 9066, that led to the unconstitutional forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second... Read More
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
A PBS documentary featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African... Read More
Come, Walk in My Shoes
The Honorable John R. Lewis, a key figure in the civil rights movement, leads congressional colleagues on an emotional pilgrimage to Alabama... Read More
Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History
A TED-Ed resource featuring Karen L. Cox, who talks about the how this revisionist history began shortly after the Civil War ended,... Read More
Do Black Lives Matter to White Christians?
A short resource from Sojourners that looks at the wide difference between what white Christians and black Christians believe about the killing... Read More
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
A documentary produced by FRONTLINE and ProPublica, that investigates how the violent and infamous rally in Charlottesville in 2017 became a watershed... Read More
Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?
A special TED event hosted by the nonpartisan media group Open to Debate, moderator John Donvan leads a discussion between writer and... Read More
Dr. Martin Luther King Interview
A short video that features Dr. King explaining why black Americans face more obstacles than European white immigrants: “It’s a cruel jest... Read More
Emanuel: The Untold Story of the Victims and Survivors of the Charleston Church Shooting
A documentary that tells the story of the 2015 shooting of 9 members of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina by... Read More
Exterminate All the Brutes
A four-part hybrid docuseries from HBO that explores the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism and challenges how history is written.... Read More
First To Go: Story of the Kataoka Family
This award-winning documentary from New Day Films focuses on the story of a Japanese-American grandmother who recounts her father’s incarceration during World... Read More
Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman’s Journey to Sainthood
A documentary about the life of Sr. Thea Bowman, an African American Catholic Franciscan who used her gifts to educate and challenge... Read More
Good Business
The story of a couple in South Africa who ignored the laws of apartheid to grow an ethical business building their company based... Read More
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement & the Media
A 2 hour documentary produced by NBC News and hosted by Lester Holt, that marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin... Read More
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
A short documentary from Vox, that tells the story of how the United Daughters of the Confederacy used their influence after the... Read More
How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
A TED Talk featuring Baratunde Thurston, who explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed... Read More
How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
TED Talk featuring Vernā Myers, who looks at subconscious attitudes toward out-groups & makes a plea to acknowledge ones biases, and then... Read More
I Am Not Black and You Are Not White
Prince Ea expresses the belief that we are all the same beyond superficial characteristics such as skin color. Read more.
I Am Not Your Negro
This academy award nominated documentary uses the notes of the late writer James Baldwin, on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers,... Read More
Japanese American Incarceration Camps
A short, animated TED-Ed Talk featuring Densho, that explores the racism and paranoia that led to the unjust internment of Japanese Americans.... Read More
Just Mercy
Based on the book of the same name, the story civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative... Read More
King in the Wilderness
A portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life, from his part in the Voting Rights Act... Read More
Martin Luther King’s Story
A short video from Goalcast, that highlights how one man’s dream can change the world. Watch now.
Pandemic of Hate: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19
A Brave New Films production that addresses the incendiary rhetoric and labeling of COVID-19 pandemic as the “Chinese virus.” Actors Kelly Hu,... Read More
Paper Clips
Story of a middle school in a rural Tennessee town that sets out to do an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education by... Read More
Phenomenal Women of Black History: Ida B. Wells
A resource from the Sojourners, that summarizes the highlights of Ida B. Wells life. Watch now.
Race: The Power of an Illusion
A resource from California Newsreel that questions the idea of race as innate biology, suggesting that a belief in inborn racial difference... Read More
Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem
A resource from Brave New Films, that exposes how the U.S. history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal... Read More
Racism Has a Cost for Everyone
A TED Talk featuring Heather C. McGhee, who argues that racism makes our economy worse — and not just in ways that... Read More
Reconstruction in America
A short animated video from the Equal Justice Initiative, that examines the 12 years following the Civil War when lawlessness and violence... Read More
Repair for Historical Harms: Global Models for Questions of Reparations
A panel discussion that addresses reparations historically and in our contemporary world, with particular attention to the issue of reparations to Black... Read More
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
A documentary from National Geographic, that chronicles the discovery of a mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma and investigates the reign of racial... Read More
Slavery By Another Name
This PBS documentary challenges the country’s assumption that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and recounts how in the... Read More
Soul of a Nation
A series from ABC, that provides a unique window into the realities of Black life in America. Each episode is about 40... Read More
Systemic Racism Explained
A short animation from Act.TV, that touches on structural racism factors such as the historical consequences of slavery & the “Jim Crow”... Read More
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
An Emmy-winning documentary, with commentary from historians, scholars, alumni and current students, examines the impact Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have... Read More
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Resource Guide
The Southern Poverty Law Center has developed a short video on the first anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.... Read More
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
A series from PBS, that chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent... Read More
The Big Payback: Fear and Reparations in the American Suburb
A documentary from PBS that tells the story looks a rookie alderwoman from Evanston, Illinois, who led the passage of the first... Read More
The Chinese Exclusion Act
A resource from PBS The American Experience, that examines the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal... Read More
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
A presentation from the Family Action Network featuring Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law, who argues against the idea... Read More
The Danger of a Single Story
A TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns... Read More
The Dark History of “Gasoline Baths” at the Border
A documentary from the Vox Missing Chapter series, that looks at the history of using toxic chemicals at the U.S. Mexico border.... Read More
The Dark History of the Suburbs
A short illustrated video from TED Ed, that explores the legacy of how racial covenants – clauses that were written into property... Read More
The Doctrine of Discovery
A video that tells the story of the Doctrine of Discovery and how European descendants benefitted from a violent history of land... Read More
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
A short animated video from The Atlantic, that looks at the enduring view of African Americans in this country as a race... Read More
The Future of Race in America
A TED talk featuring Michelle Alexander, addressing the issue of mass incarceration of minorities — particularly African Americans in the US. —... Read More
The History of Reparations
An episode from the PBS series, Origin of Everything, traces the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing discrimination of the... Read More
The History of Reparations
A PBS video featuring Danielle Bainbridge, who looks at reparations — both in the U.S. and other places around the world. Focuses... Read More
The House I Live In
Provides stories from individuals at all levels of America’s “War on Drugs,” and offers a look inside of America’s longest war and... Read More
The Long Shadow
This film follows former CNN Senior Producer, TED contributor, and Emmy-Award winning Director Frances Causey as she traces her family’s legacy of... Read More
The Neutral Ground
A documentary about memory, monuments, and America’s troubled romance with the “Lost Cause.” Focuses on the City of New Orleans’ Council vote... Read More
The Racial Justice Series
A three part series from Brave New Films that aims to tackle the false assumption that racism is over, head-on by exploring... Read More
The U.S. Should Take Germany’s Lead on Facing Down a Violent History
A short video featuring Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, who talks about how the U.S. should respond like other nations that... Read More
The Urgency of “Inter-Sectionality”
A TED talk featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw who says that now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of... Read More
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality
A documentary from HBO, that provides a portrait of the public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal... Read More
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
A resource that honors the legacy and impact of the men and women who championed racial equity in the United States. The... Read More
We All Have Implicit Biases. So What Can We Do About It?
A TED Talk featuring Dushaw Hockett, who suggests that we all have biases. They are rapid & automatic responses that operate at... Read More
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
TED Talk by Bryan Stevenson. Shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a... Read More
What We Can Do About the Culture of Hate
A TED Talk featuring Sally Kohn who says that we all hate — some of us in subtle ways, others in obvious... Read More
White Noise: Inside the Racist Right
A documentary that tells the story of the alt-right, following Richard Spencer, Lauren Southern, and Mike Cernovich as they ride a wave... Read More
Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice
A TED Talk featuring Mary Bassett who makes the case that structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations, make... Read More