How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
By Eileen Truax. Thirteen stories that illuminate the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population. Regardless... Read More
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
A TED talk featuring Richard Wilkinson who charts the hard data on economic inequality and shows what gets worse when rich and... Read More
How Gerrymandering Can Impact an Election
A short illustrated video from TED Ed, that shows how district lines, and the groups of voters within them, may seem arbitrary,... Read More
How I Became an Activist
A TED talk, featuring Ory Okolloh, who tells the story of her life and her family — and how she came to... Read More
How I Work to Protect Women from Honor Killings
A TED talk featuring Khalida Brohi, who speaks of about the “honor killing” of a close friend and the surprising resistance she... Read More
How Inequality Kills
A 15 minute TED Talk featuring, David Ansell, a physician, epidemiologist & health activist who worked for almost four decades in hospitals... Read More
How Jails Extort the Poor
A TED Talk featuring Salil Dudani, who shares stories from individuals who have experienced debtors’ prison in Ferguson, Missouri, challenging us to... Read More
How Labor Unions Shape Society
A TED Talk featuring political economist, Margaret Levi, who shows how how unions forge equality and protect worker rights, and have advocated... Read More
How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?
An interactive resource from the New York Times, that shows as the world warms because of human-induced climate change, most people can... Read More