Podcasts/videos/media
Containing a variety of videos, Ted Talks, documentaries, podcasts, and books specifically looking at the role of race in education and society in general. Asking 'why race matters?'
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Videos
Ted Talks
Get comfortable being uncomfortable
How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics
How to have a voice and lean into conversations about race (Amanda Kemp Tedx Talk)
The danger of a single story (Chimananda Ngozi Adichie TED Talk)
Is my skin brown because I drank chocolate milk? Beverly Daniel Tatum- TEDX Talk
Racism has a cost for everyone (Heather McGhee Ted Talk)
Why microaggressions aren't so micro (TEDXYouth)
The lie that invented racism: John Biewen TED Talk
Color blind or color brave? Mellody Hobson TED Talk
What if white people led the charge to end racism? (Ted Talk- Nita Mosby Tyler)
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time (Ted Talk- Baratunde Thurston)
Why black girls are targeted for punishments at school – and how to change that
How to let go of being a "good" person (Dolly Chugh)
Implicit Bias- how it effects us and how we push through (Melanie Funchess)
How to talk about race: Eric Deggans TEDX Talk
Why English Class is silencing students of color- Jamila Lyiscott TEDX Talk
Black self/ White world- lessons on internalized racism (TED Talk)
How to outsmart your own unconscious bias (Valerie Alexander- focuses more on gender)
We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it? (Dushaw Hockett)
The little problem I had renting a house TED Talk
An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
Help for kids the educational system ignores
Eliminating Microaggressions- Tiffany Alvoid
What Beyonce taught me about race
"Race: Human" The un-science of race categories- Teja Arboleda
The urgency of intersectionality- Kimberle Crenshaw
America's Juvenile Injustice System- TED Talk Marsha Levick
Three myths about racism- Candis Watts Smith
How racism makes us sick- David R Williams
Racial Healing- Dr. Gail Christopher
Education or criminalization: the inferiority cycle- TED Talk Shalaya Minor
The Power of the Black Experience in the Classroom - Keith Mayes
PBS Wisconsin- Why Race Matters- video series
How to find common ground (various TED Talks)
How America's public schools keep kids in poverty
Removing labels- Dominique Goodmond
10 ways to have a better conversation
Why you think you're right- even when you're wrong
How can I have a positive racial identity? I'm White!
Michael Holding and Ebony Rainford-Brent speak passionately about ending institutionalized racism
TED Talk: The little problem I had renting a house
Janet Stovall- How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Antonio Valdes- challenging the bootstrap myth
Breaking down stereotypes using art and media
How to resolve racially stressful situations
Real Talk: mapping our identities throgh personal narrative (Diana Moreno)
How our identities are socially constructed (Florencia Escobedo Munoz)
What is equity and why do our children deserve it?
Let's stop talking about diversity and start working towards equity
Bias
Implicit bias: peanut butter, jelly and racism
"What Would You Do?"- bike theft
Bias isn't just a police problem it's a preschool problem
Implicit Bias, Lifelong Impact (Kirwan Institute)
Interrupting bias when you hear it (1 minute)
Peeling back the layers of Bias with Nancy Moricette (Milwaukee Rep)
Unconscious Bias exercise from diversity consultant Scott Horton
Race Forward: Chapter 1- High School (students talking about how they see bias)
Let's talk bias (PBS Learning media)
Implicit bias: countermeasures
12 cognitive biases explained- how to think better and more logically removing bias
Role of Race
New York Times 25 mini-films on race
Racism is Real (Brave New Films)
"This is My Story" 6 part series by LaVar Burton
CNN: The Data is Clear: Systemic Racism Exists in the U.S.
How anti-racism is a treatment for the 'cancer' of racism (PBS Newshour)
"The Talk" (Procter and Gamble)
"The Look" (Procter and Gamble)
"These hands" (Procter and Gamble)
Widen the screen (Procter and Gamble)
Our bodies back- Jessica Care Moore
Spoken Project Youtube Channel (variety of videos on the role of race)
Why 'colorblindness' is not the right approach to race
The first time I knew I was Black (series of short videos)
Ibram X Kendi- the denial of racism
Colorblindess is toxic- Verge Network
Being black is not a crime (Courageous Conversations Global Foundation)
School segregation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Intersectionality 101 (Learning for Justice)
Habitat Humanity "Home" series on the role of race in home ownership
Eddie Glaude- "this is us....."
A conversation with Native Americans on race
"Because I'm Latino, I can't have money" video of middle schoolers talking about race
Extent of systemic racism revealed in Columbia University's "Uncovering Inequality" Report
What Black Lives Matters means to an 11-year-old
History of Race
What to My People is the Fourth of July? (Daveed Diggs)
A history of Milwaukee School Segregation
From slave patrols to today: what the history of policing teaches us about the present
Ibram X Kendi: America's Racist History Helps Explain What Happened in 2020
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
Amber Ruffin airs some of the sunken Black history white conservatives are trying to hide
Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
What are structural, institutional and systemic racism?
The Daily Show- the racist history of U.S. highways
The Daily Show unpacks the racism behind the disappearance of America's public schools
How redlining turned Milwaukee into a segregated city
Racial Wealth Gap (Netflix- Explained)
Remembering Bell Hooks and her enormous legacy
Crash Course: Black American History Youtube Channel (multiple videos)
Redlining and Racial Covenants: Jim Crow of the North
We can't recover from this history until we deal with it
13th Documentary Clip- "in the good ol' days....."
Whiteness/Privilege
Whiteness WTF: White privilege and the invisible race
A trip to the grocery store- using your privilege
A guide to White Privilige (1 minute)
White silence on social media: Why not saying anyting is actually saying a lot
A conversation with White people on Whiteness
Bettina Love- difference between an ally and being a co-conspirator
Twitter video discussing his experience seeing a White woman record an encounter he had with police
Robin DiAngelo on racism and Whiteness
Daily Show- a broad look at how white supremacy shaped America
Rennin Eddo-Lodge: What happens when I try to talk race with white people
6 things white kids say about race that parents should call out now (article and short video)
Dorothy Brown- "The system is designed for White wealth"
Don't be a bystander: 6 tips for responding to racist attacks
Robin DiAngelo on Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
DeRay McKesson on Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Privilege
Talking about whiteness (featuring two white psychologists)
Robin DiAngelo on Amanpour and Company (PBS)
Deconstructing white privilege with Robin DiAngelo
Ibram X Kendi- Why White Supremacy is the ultimate diversion
White people must take action against the racists amongst them
Microaggressions/ Racist Language
Microaggressions in the classroom
How the n-word became the 'atomic bomb of racial slurs'
Can emojis be racist (90 second movie)
An everyday dimension of racism: why we need to understand microaggressions
Teenagers discuss microaggressions and racism
Snippet: microaggressions in the classroom
TED Talk- Eliminating Microaggressions: The next level of inclusion
Mental Health and Microaggressions: Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Matter
Discipline
The school-to-prison pipeline, explained (VOX)
Why police aren't protecting our kids in school (Samantha Bee)
Discipline bias in education leaves life-long impacts
A system not made for me (RaiseUp winner Jonny Triumph)
How U.S. schools punish Black kids (Vox)
How zero tolerance blurred the lines between schools and criminal justice
The school to prison pipeline with Rudy Bankston (PBS Wisconsin Why Race Matters)
Andrea Joseph-McCatty- Black girls are 4.19 times more likely to get suspended than white girls
How schools are funneling Black students into the prison system
Additional Topics
The Black Community's Mental health Treatment Crisis (Daily Show)
Study ranks Milwaukee worst city for African Americans
How housing redlining contributed to the racial wealth gap and segregation
Moving the race conversation forward
If these cells could talk (mini-film on the biological health effects of facing racial microaggressions)
Black student voices: what we need from our schools
Stereotype Threat: a conversation with Claude Steele
Alicia Garza: co-founder of Black Lives Matter & 7 myths of Black Livess Matter
"Run for your life" - the marathoner who runs for his imprisoned father
Dr. DeGruy- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver- Black hair
The racial wealth gap in America
Risha Talks: overcoming systemic racism in criminal justice
Redlining and racial covenants: Jim Crow of the North
The scorching words of Ravyn Wngz are an activism manifesto
Alysia Montano is the hero of this story
Top US general defends studying critical race theory "I want to understand"
Why Americans are so divided over teaching critical race theory
Amber Ruffin Show- Critical Race Theory
What is critical race theory and why are states banning it?
Creator of term Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw explains what it really is
Winona LaDuke on Redemption (story of the Pawnee Tribe returning to native land in Nebraska)
Kimberly Jones on difference between protesting, rioting, and looting
This is Equity (Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation)
Fighting systemic racism by eating healthy in a food desert
Black History Month: how new rules are limiting diversity education in schools
How the political debate on teaching race in schools is impacting students and educators
Gloria Ladson-Billings: Critical Race Theory
We can solve the racial wealth gap
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Environmental Racism
Daily Show: South African racism vs American racism
Rihanna- it's our problem, time to "pull up"
We must talk about race to fix economic inequality
American segregation, mapped at day and night
Understanding Black English Vernacular- a dialect born from conflict and creativity
Webinars
Antiracism
Ibram X. Kendi- Prince George Community College
Tools for antiracist teaching (PBS Learning Media Episode 1- Tools for antiracist teaching)
Tools for antiracist teaching (PBS Learning Media Episode 2- Amplify Student Voice)
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist (Ibram X Kendi- TED Talks Webinar)
Workshop ($39) on How to start a plan and take action against racism
Deepening Understanding: Systemic Racism's Impact on Education- Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching
Bias/Microaggressions
History of Race
How did Milwaukee become the United States' most segregated city? (with Reggie Jackson and Joshua Garoon)
Systemic Racism
A conversation on "The Sum of Us" with Heather McGhee
Embracerace- Breaking Down "Structural" and "Systemic" racism for our children
Perspective on race, law, and equality: A speaker series offered by the Big 10 law schools
The Whiteness of Wealth: how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans (Dorothy Brown)
How structural racism works (Tricia Rose)
Why Race Matters in Education
Tell your story with Joe Truss (Culturally Responsive Leadership)
Abolotionist Teaching and the future of our schools (Youtube live discussion with Dr. Love)
The art of building equitable schools- Elena Aguilar
Building Culturally Relevant Schools with Gloria Ladson-Billings
Building culturally relevant schools post-pandemic webinar with Gloria Ladson-Billings
Jeff Duncan Andrade- Equality of Equity?
Jason Reynolds Keynote Texas Library Association
Leadership for Equity through Positive Relationships
Glenn Singleton "Leadership for Racial Equity in Schools and Beyond" use email jagemaj@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Establishing a positive, equitable, and inclusive school culture
Violence against Asian Americans: how do we support the children?
Best Practices for a Culturally Responsive Learning Community
Storytelling through art with Bisa Butler & Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Building & sustaining pipelines for educators of color
Street data: a next-generation model for equity, pedagogy and school transformation
I'm a white educator...... where do I begin?
Unearthing genius & joy with Gholdy Muhammad
Black Minds Matter: Addressing disproportionate suspensions of Black children and youth (research)
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad talks transformative teaching, joy in the classroom
Addressing the suspensions of Black children throughout Early Childhood Education
Student Engagement
Teaching Tolerance: Combating Online Youth Radicalization
Navigating your teens in Breonna Taylor's America
Leading all students to feel value & capable through online learning (article) (slide deck)
Confronting racism through courageous conversations in the secondary classroom
Healing school communities in the context of racial violence (Session 1)
Why & how to talk to young kids about race
Frederick Joseph on discussing "divisive issues" on PBS NewsHour
Critical Race Theory
Additional Topics
Can You Hear Us Now? The Next Chapter (NBC News Now) with Baratunde Thuston
Racelighting- Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. J. Luke Wood (research brief)
Change starts here: 'The Sum of Us' with Heather McGhee in conversation with Rabbi Rachel
Looking back to move forward: unpacking our own racial socialization
Work Wider: equity, diversity & inclusion and the future of work
Movement building, power, Black futures, public education and collective liberation: Alicia Garza
Intersectionality in Action: A conversation with Professor Kimberle Crenshaw
Movies/Documentaries/Mini Series
When they See Us (Netflix mini series)
Love Them First (on Youtube)
PBS: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
The Next Question (online show talking about racial justice)
Kalief Browder Story (Netflix mini series)
Whiteness Project (series of short films)
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Contact Jon Jagemann to organize a viewing
MPS Pushout Bitmoji classroom with data, best practices and other information
United Shades of America (CNN Series)
episode #livingwhileblack (focuses on Milwaukee)
Please contact Jon Jagemann if you are interested in a school/department viewing of episode with discussion.
One Night in Miami (Amazon Prime)
Growing Up Milwaukee (HBO Max)
Coded Bias (now on Netflix)
Patriot Act (Netflix) episode “Why your public transportation sucks” (focuses on racial inequities in Milwaukee transportation)
White Like Me (Time Wise) (or on Vialogues)
Weather Underground (available on Amazon Prime)
Unnatural Causes.... is inequality making us sick? (7 part series)
Soul of a Nation (ABC)- a unique window into the realities of Black life
Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime)
Disrupt & Dismantle (BET- exploring the inequalities Black communities face and actions need to be taken)
Frontline: Violence Interrupters
Reflecting on anti-bias education in action: the early years (guidebook)
My Name is Pauli Murray (Amazon Prime)
Civil War: Or, who do we think we are? (free on Peacock)
CBS Original Documentary: Debate over how and when race should be taught in schools
Jim Crow of the North (Twin Cities PBS Originals)
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
Purple America, we need to talk (20 minutes)
Attica (2022 documentary)
Who We Are: A chronicle of racism in America
Our America: Lowballed (documentary on housing market and systemic racism)
High on the hog: How African American cuisine transformed America (Netflix)
Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)
I am not your Negro (James Baldwin documentary)- Available on Amazon Prime
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Available on HBO Max
Podcasts
Podcast Series
1619- 6 part podcast observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
Colorblind- Race across generations
White Lies (true crime podcast on the 1965 murder of a civil rights advocate in Selma, Alabama)
School Colors- a podcast about how race, class, and power shape American cities and schools
Miseducation (NY High School student personal stories about race in school)
Silence is not an option (CNN- Don Lemon)
We're having a moment (Baratunde Thurston)
Nice White Parents (This American Life)
The Tuff Juice Podcast with Caron Butler
Abolitionist Teaching Network (Dr. Bettina Love)
By Every Measure (88Nine Radio Milwaukee Podcast with Reggie Jackson)
Teaching Tolerance (various podcasts)
53206 Podcast- podcast from a white couple that lives in 53206
Scene on Radio Season 4- the land that never has been yet
Scene on Radio Season 2- seeing white
Who We Are: a chronicle of Racism in America (additional resources)
Caught- mass incarceration starts young. These kids say the system changes them forever.
Hear to Slay- Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan interview Black women from across politics and pop culture
What matters: combines documentary narrative with interviews to create dialogue to promote collective liberation
Too dope teachers and a mic- exploration of race, gender and power in schools
There goes the neighborhood- a look into the gentriciation affect on cities
Racist sandwich- the role of race in food photography, chefs, and the food industry
Intersectionality matters- looking at intersectionality and critical race theory
The Reconstruction- conversations exploring systemic change in a time of great ferment
The Black Scholars Podcast- community for Black educators to discuss issues pertaining to Black educators
Leading Equity- focuses on supporting educators with tools and resources towards equity in school
PBS Wisconsin- Why Race Matters
Momentum: A race forward podcast
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
Written Off (Apple Podcast) (Spotify) (Stitcher)
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Blackberry Jams presented by Ben & Jerry's
Some of my best friends are............
The Diversity Gap with Bethaney Wilkinson
Southlake- about the controversy around a video showing White students chanting the n-word at Black students
From Woke to Work: The anti-racist journey
The Black History Buff Podcast
Bright morning with Elena Aguilar (episodes February 7,2022 through March 28, 2022 focus on interrupting racism)
Unreformed: the story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
The Kids of Rutherford County- a Tennessee county was arresting and illegally jailing children
Individual Episodes
Ted Radio Hour: The Consequences of Racism
NPR Embedded: This is Not a Joke: how a school responds to racist extremism
Cory Booker on White Supremacist Violence (Radio Atlantic Podcast)
How to Cover Racist Tweets (Radio Atlantic Podcast)
The Fight for Reparations (Radio Atlantic Podcast)
Mindshift: teaching 6-year-olds about privilege and power
Armchair Expert- Heather McGhee
NPR Thoroughline: American Police
NPR Thoroughline: Mass Incarceration
NPR Thoroughline: Milikin vs Bradley (school segregation and busing in Detroit)
Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi- how to be an antiracist
Brene Brown with Austin Channing Brown- I'm still Here: Black dignity in a world made for Whiteness
How racism is trauma (In the Open podcast)
Armchair Expert- Ibram X. Kendi
Why I'm no longer talking to White people about race
How white parents can talk to their kids about race
How police violence could impact the health of Black infants
Isabel Wilkerson (author of Caste) on Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin
Before Kaepernick, John Carlos Raised His Fist in 1968
Code Switch: A tale of two school districts
PBIS Assessment: Expert Instruction Episode 6: Implicit Bias
Sporkful: Other People's Food (6 episodes) examining the cultural appropriation of food by White culture
The Ezra Klein Show- Heather McGhee- what drained pool politics costs America
Teaching While White: Racial Identity for White People with Dr. Janet Helms
The mind of the village: understanding our implict biases
The Experiment: Inventing 'Hispanic'
Ten Percent Happier- How good people fight bias
Ten Percent Happier- See through unconscious bias
A Kids Book About Podcast: Jordan talks about systemic racism
A Kids Book About Podcast: Jelani talks about racism
TED Talks Daily- the difference between being "not racist" and antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi
NPR Life Kit: microaggressions are a big deal: how to talk them out and when to walk away
Teaching History Her Way Podcast: Anti-racist education with Ashley Lipscomb
NPR: racist history of American news media
Work Life with Adam Grant: building an anti-racist workplace
Racist bias in crime reporting
Making villains and the "problem" woman of color in the workplace
California Institute of Integral Studies- Dr. DeGruy & Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Armchair Expert with Dorothy Brown- The Whiteness of Wealth
Work Life with Adam Grant: how to bust bias at work
On Our Watch: Perceived Threat
The Sporkful: What McDonald's can tell us about Black America
Marriage & Martinis: Social Justice Parenting with Dr. Traci Baxley
Mindshift- Down with Toxic Positivity! For teachers and students, healing isn't blind optimism
ACLU Podcast: At Liberty- Kimberle Crenshaw on teaching the truth about race in America
ACLU Podcast: At Liberty- Criminalizing Schoolkids
ACLU Podcast: At Liberty- America's Criminalization of Blackness
WYPR All Things Considered: Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us: gauging the social costs of racism
Teaching Hard History: Creating Brave Spaces- reckoning with race in the classroom
The Mind of the Village: understanding our implicit biases
ASCD: 3 things your Black and Brown students desperately wish you understood about teaching them
Code Switch: What about your friends?
Racial history of American swimming pools
Ready to Learn: Richard Milner- Putting Race, Equity, and Justice at the Center of Teaching
Teach Lab: Rich Milner- start where you are, but don't stay there
Cultural Humility Podcast: Racial Microaggressions and Political Correctness
Microaggressions are a big deal: how to talk them out and when to walk away
This American Life: the problem we all life with (Part One) -- (Part Two)
Justice in America: school to prison pipeline
This American Life: Talking while Black
This American Life: Three Miles
Racially Just Schools: Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline and nexus
This American Life: School's out forever
This American Life: is this working?
Founding Critical Race Theory (with Kimberle Crenshaw)
United States of Anxiety- The Dangerous Cycle of Fear (on Anti-Asian violent crime)
An Interview with Reggie Jackson (53206 Cast)
Work Life: how to change your workplace
The Tom Schimmer Podcast: Gholdy Muhammad
The Tom Schimmer Podcast: Zaretta Hammond
Code Switch- what does it mean to inherit whiteness
Corporate landlords profit from segregation, at cost of Black homeownership and wealth
Elena Aguilar- why we need affinity spaces
PBS Why Race Matters: The School-To-Prison Pipeline
Expert Instruction (PBIS Apps)- Vulnerable Decision Points
Expert Instruction (PBIS Apps)- Neutralizing Vulnerable Decision Points
Mindshift: Gholdy Muhammad- How centering joy can make learning more relevant
"The promise of Whiteness: its past and its future"
Bettina Love explains how policy ended a "glorious" era in Black education
Historical markers dedicated to Milwaukee's Fair Housing Marches to be erected acros city
WTF does race have to do with taxes?
How white people benefit from racism with Tracie McMillan
Sporkful: In Search of Rosa Parks' Pancakes
How to start the conversation- Part 1: race, injustice, unconscious biases
Starting a convesations about race- Part 2: keeping the discussion on track
Long overdue, radically candid conversations about race (various episodes)
Cult of Pedagogy Podcast with Jennifer Gonzalez
Four ways teachers can support students of color (with Dena Simmons)- transcript
How one district learned to talk about race (with Glenn Singleton)- transcript
Why white students need multicultural and social justice education
Street Data: A pathway toward equitable, anti-racist schools
Throughline by NPR episodes on race
Books
Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools
Dr. Bettina Love: We want to do more than survive
Bettina Love- Punished for Dreaming
Ibram X. Kendi- How to be an antiracist
Online book discussion through Google Classroom: Class Code: 7wxmqrb
So you want to talk about race
Mediocre: the dangerous legacy of White male America
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?
Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Teaching & Learning
Courageous Conversations about Race
"These kids are out of control"
Culturally responsive teaching and the brain
31 children's books to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance
10 young adult books that tackle racism
18 children's books to prompt and further conversations on race
Why I'm no longer talking to White people about race
The 57 Bus: A true story of two teenagers and the crime that changed their lives
Activities related to Teaching for Black Lives
Responsive Reads (culturally authentic texts)
The Whiteness of Wealth- Dorothy Brown
Racism in America: A Reader (free PDF book)
Confessions from your token Black colleague: true stories & candid conversations about equity & inclusion in the workplace