"How to be an Antiracist" Mastermind Experience

A video segment which covers the historical beginnings and modern implications of gerrymandering.

A six part podcast which takes an intricate look at gerrymandering and proposed solutions in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, and California.

From the publisher: "In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit it from the moment the act was signed into law."

Video segmented outlining the history and modern impacts of colorblind racism.

Video featuring social psychologist explaining the research behind "color blindness" and the harms it causes.

From the publisher: "Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities."

Video segment outlining the impacts of environmental racism focusing on Flint, Michigan.

From the publisher: A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency finds that people of color are much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air—even as the agency seeks to roll back regulations on pollution.

From the publisher: "From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country-cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power."

Video segment exploring the ways gender and racial bias can affect medical treatment.

Video of talk by PhD student Udodiri R. Okwandu looking into the historical precedent of racism in science and medicine.

From the publisher: "Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust."

A brief video overview of the war on drugs, from it's start in the Nixon administration to the modern implications in the United States.

A podcast examining the beginning of the war on drugs during the Nixon administration.

From the creator: "The War on Drugs in the United States has cost $1 trillion since 1971, and 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses. Yet there is little evidence it is responsible for declining drug use. How did the War on Drugs truly begin? Jaye explores US history and explains how Prohibition led to our nation’s drug war."

From the creator: "The Rev. James Cone is the founder of black liberation theology. In an interview with Terry Gross, Cone explains the movement, which has roots in 1960s civil-rights activism and draws inspiration from both the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, as "mainly a theology that sees God as concerned with the poor and the weak."

From the writer: "First-generation Black theologians used the civil rights and Black power movements as primary sources for a theology of liberation. This article explores Afrocentricity as a moral resource for a new generation of Black pastors and theological scholars in carving out a theology of liberation from their own history and culture."

From the publisher: "Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces. Representing the breadth of his life’s work, this collection opens with the birth of black theology, explores its relationship to issues of violence, the developing world, and the theological touchstone embodied in African-American spirituals. Also included here is Cone’s seminal work on the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the philosophy of Malcolm X, and a compelling examination of their contribution to the roots of black theology. Far-reaching and provocative, Risks of Faith is a must-read for anyone interesting in religion and its political and social impact on our time."

From the creator: "Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation."

From the creator: "Why are American schools resegregating? Over 60 years since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling forced schools to integrate, the nation is witnessing schools become increasingly segregated. So how did we get to this point?"

From the publisher: "The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact between students of different racial groups--has changed over the fifty years since the decision."

Featuring clips from the Bipartisan Summit on Criminal Justice Reform in March 2015, this video explores the early stages of the war on crime and its modern implications.

From the writer: "Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a “War on Crime,” a declaration that ushered in a new era of American law enforcement. Johnson’s turn toward crime control as a federal priority remains his most enduring legacy—even more than the Great Society programs that scholars often herald as his greatest achievement—and continues to shape what is arguably the most important social crisis the United States now faces."

From the publisher: "In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the free” become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America’s prison problem originated with the Reagan administration’s War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era."