Jane Elliott: End RACISM ! – Racism destroyed in one minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI0LXYWthEM
Jane Elliott on Oprah Winfrey Show, July 1992 – This video shows what happens when Jane tries the brown eyes-blue eyes experiment on an audience of the Oprah Winfrey Show. If you haven’t experienced prejudice, this video shows what emotions you might feel when you are treated like “the other”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOTxammRTw
Jane Elliott on Oprah Winfrey Show, 1992 – interview about the brown eyes-blue eyes experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PicAzrNU0 Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZkIGASPrzM Part 2
More Jane Elliott videos:
http://www.janeelliott.com/
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (white privilege) – Peggy McIntosh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRnoddGTMTY
The Race of Life: This video graphically explains “white privilege”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=FBQx8FmOT_0
White Caller Admits He’s Prejudiced. C-SPAN Guest Heather McGhee Helps Him Do Better.
“What can I do to change. You know, to be a better American?”
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57bde5ace4b085c1ff26fc63
A C-SPAN caller confessed his racism to a black guest. A year later, he called back to say how he’d changed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/08/25/a-c-span-caller-confessed-his-racism-to-a-black-guest-a-year-later-he-called-back-to-say-how-hed-changed/
Living While Black
Brave New Films
Being black is not a crime. So why are the cops being called on black folks for noncriminal behavior? This is racism. We’re calling on our viewers to think before calling the police – lives can depend on it.
https://www.facebook.com/bravenewfilms/posts/10155276360757016/
Birth of a White Nation
Dr. Jacqueline Battalora is the author of the book Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today. In this video, she discusses the origin of the concept of “white people” in American colonial law, the legal and societal purpose it served and its consequences for poor whites and people of color. She also discusses the colonial anti-miscegenation laws that go as far back as 1664, regarding who could marry whom and what the penalties were (see the second link from America’s Black Holocaust Museum for more information).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riVAuC0dnP4
Anti-Amalgamation Law Passed This Day In 1664
https://www.abhmuseum.org/anti-amalgamation-law-passed-this-day-in-1664/
Ethnic Notions
Tim Wise – Does Race Still Matter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMo64KSApQ&list=PLD9DDEA3CFE736B63
13th
From Netflix: Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
The 13th Official Trailer #1 [HD] Netflix, Ava DuVernay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUtfhjJAJ4
13th – Official Documentary Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22aH9OeE_X8
Professor Henry Gates’ PBS series “Finding Your Roots” is available to watch online:
http://video.pbs.org/program/finding-your-roots/
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV-EDWzJuzk
Excerpt: LBJ’s Voting Rights Speech “The American Promise” urging Congress to support the Voting Rights Act, 3/15/65. (5:28 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjlwwf2K9g
On March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson calls on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. Whole speech available here:
Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. (48:52 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Bill, 8/6/1965. (50:16 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3O1YavsXbU
PBS – America Reframed – Our Mockingbird:
In the ’80s, the desegregation of U.S. public schools peaked, but since then, schools have become even more segregated (Civil Rights Project). Our Mockingbird highlights the experiences of teens from two Birmingham, Alabama high schools — one all black and one all white — who collaborate on a production of the play, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
http://www.pbs.org/video/america-reframed-our-mockingbird-promo/
http://www.pbs.org/video/america-reframed-our-mockingbird-digital/
PBS – An American Experience – Freedom Summer:
On August 4, 1964, three young supporters, fighting for equal justice for the right to vote, were found murdered in Mississippi. We honor James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and so many others, for giving their life fighting for justice.
Previews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ssdtB-sAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmPIqMK8KI
Download it: $4 Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmPIqMK8KI
The Mythology of Race 1
from Architects of a New Dawn – Carlos Santana
“The first thing we need to do with dire urgency is to dismantle the Mythology of Race.”
These multiple episodes examine such questions as: What does scientific evidence reveal about race? Why were humans categorized by race throughout history? What “race” are you? Are racial categories made up? What is colorism?
http://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/video/the-mythology-of-race-1
Dalai Lama on The Oneness of Humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECtAXA_JbZE
The Genographic Project (2011 article):
The genographic project confirms humans migrated out of Africa through Arabia – map
https://phys.org/news/2011-11-genographic-humans-migrated-africa-arabia.html
TED Talk – A family tree for humanity – Spencer Wells (20:30) – DNA info start at about 7:00
https://www.ted.com/talks/spencer_wells_a_family_tree_for_humanity?language=en
The Human Journey – Spencer Wells (1:09:31)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jYKAaKy7s
Migration of modern humans from Africa around 70,000 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
McFarland USA — starring Kevin Costner as Coach Jim White, is a movie that’s about more than running. Rather using the sport as a backdrop, it displays the power of heart, commitment, family and an incredible work ethic. Here’s a bio:
http://www.biography.com/news/mcfarland-usa-movie-cast-interview
Freedom Writers (2007)
A dedicated teacher (Hilary Swank) in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-KYKyFXCM
Stand and Deliver (1988) – Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris
Edward James Olmos’s Oscar-nominated performance energizes this true-life story of a Los Angeles high school teacher who drives his students on to excellence at calculus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-Cxs8eYkI
The March @ 50 – PBS
Fifty years after the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, have we delivered on the promise to provide all Americans with equal access to the Vote? This PBS episode discusses key elements of the voting rights act that were removed by the Supreme Court when they ruled on Holder vs. Shelby County in 2013.
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/march-on-washington/web-series/episode-2-voting-rights
TED Talks on Racism
https://www.ted.com/topics/race
TED Talk: Cynthia Silva Parker: Racism — what will it take to end it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHNbmt_oR8
TED Talk – How America’s public schools keep kids in poverty
Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools — things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields — and this has a real impact on the potential of students. Kandice Sumner sees the disparity every day in her classroom in Boston. In this inspiring talk, she asks us to face facts — and change them.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kandice_sumner_how_america_s_public_schools_keep_kids_in_poverty
TED Talk – Why your doctor should care about social justice – Mary BassettIn Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City’s Health Commissioner, Bassett is using every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism. “We don’t have to have all the answers to call for change,” she says. “We just need courage.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_bassett_why_your_doctor_should_care_about_social_justice
David Little Elk – Medicine Wheel – Lakota Heart-N-Soul
The colors of the Medicine Wheel of Lakota Natives don’t represent races — they represent life — everything is connected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_TFzbW78s&feature=youtu.be
David Little Elk – Mitakuye Oyas’in Includes Wasicu People – Lakota Heart-N-Soul
Mitakuye Oyas’in means “All my relations”… meaning we are all connected, all life — everything — is connected.
David speaks to Natives about the importance of inclusion (even wasicu or “white people”) and even mentions blood types.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKca32To30&feature=youtu.be
Segregated by Design
‘Segregated By Design’ examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. The video is based on the book The Color of Law. In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.
https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/