Becoming Anti-Racist

Resources for Research by Topic

Health

Coronavirus Racial Disparity article

Racism and Discrimination in Health Care article

Racism in Healthcare article (different subtopics if you scroll down--focus on what you're interested in)

Housing

Timeline of 100 Years of Racist Housing Policy (scroll down to start at the timeline part)

History of Racial Injustice in Housing: Redlining article

A Forgotten History of How the US Government Segregated America (NPR Story--you can listen to this, but it's about 35 minutes long)

Media

Media Depictions Impact Black Men article (this is a long one with tons of info)

Hollywood Movies Perpetuate Racial Stereotypes article (this is organized by different racial groups and stereotypes against them. The section on anti-Black racist stereotypes is about halfway down the article.)

Poverty/Wealth Gap

Racial Wealth Gap video

Three Lessons about Black Poverty article

The Colors of Poverty article

Prison/Criminal Justice

Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline article

The School to Prison Pipeline article

School to Prison Pipeline article

UN Report on Racial Disparities in US Criminal Justice System article

Racism in Criminal Justice article & video

*Also, Bryan Stevenson is a leader in this fight for antiracism in criminal justice. You can search for him (interviews, articles).

Schools

This one links to other articles to explain it in more detail and is easy to read

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/to-understand-structural-racism-look-to-our-schools/

Fighting Systemic Racism in k-12 Education (this has 4 ideas that can help reduce racial inequality in schools)

Systemic Racism in the Education System

Voting

How Systemic Racism Keeps Millions of Black People from Voting article

A Timeline of Voter Suppression Civil War to Present (start at the timeline part)

Why Black Americans Still Face Obstacles to Voting article