Racism and Social Injustice Resources

This documentary welcomes dialogue around racial inequality, policing, and the Criminal Justice System by focusing on Eric Garners case with interviews and footage of the Millions March in NYC.

This documentary interviews police officers, legal experts, and local activists delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system.

A profile of the life and work of celebrated artist Edythe Boone, a civil rights activist most recently known as the aunt of Eric Garner who died during a violent police arrest stating he could not breathe.

This 2015 PBS town hall meeting, moderated by Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues around race relations that have come to the fore after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, and the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds that followed.

This documentary explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.

Dr. Kevin Nadal, from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discusses the topics of education, minority communities, television programs, mass media, social media, social activism and activists, race and culture, popular culture, minority groups, professional issues, self image, and multicultural intentionality.

Lecture given by Dr. Hector Y. Adames and Dr. Nayeli Y. Chavez-Duenas from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology discussing how racism has evolved in this country and focusing on how it is expressed in different spaces, particularly on social media.

This 2016 FRONTLINE documentary is a provocative journey inside one police force that's been ordered to reform by the Department of Justice: the Newark Police Department in New Jersey. Take a nuanced glimpse into how topics in the national discussion about race and policing are playing out every day on the streets of Newark, in community members' homes, and in the city's police precincts

This 90-minute documentary challenges the common assumption that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells new systems of involuntary servitude took the place of the Southern slavery system with shocking force and brutality. The film documents how for more than 80 years, thousands of African Americans, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of white masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.