Civil liberties & civil rights

Podcasts

• "Militia Movements," from Now & Then, 19 July 2022 -- added 10.30.22

• "Racism and the Second Amendment (with Carol Anderson)," from Now & Then, 12 July 2022 -- added 10.30.22

• "Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires," a podcast from Reveal, 17 September 2022
  Note: This is about the Lone Rock Stockade, which is in Tracy City, TN.

• "Slavery Wasn't 'Long Ago': A Writer Exposes the Disconnect in How We Tell History," from Fresh Air, 1 June 2021

• "'Sum of Us' Examines the Hidden Cost of Racism -- For Everyone," from Fresh Air, 17 February 2021

• "Surveillance and Local Police: How Technology is Evolving Faster than Regulation," from Fresh Air, 27 January 2021

• Nice White Parents, from the New York Times (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• "#84: Harold," from This American Life, 21 November 1997

• "Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Unhappy To See Me?" from This American Life episode #414, 10 September 2010

• "The Problem We All Live With" part one and part two, from This American Life, summer 2015 (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• "Wrongfully Accused By an Algorithm," from The Daily, 3 August 2020

• "A Conversation with Edward Snowden" part one and part two, from StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, September 2015 (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• "Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't and I Won't' Cooperate with Russia," from Fresh Air, 19 September 2019

• "Journalist Who Helped Break Snowden's Story Reflects on His High-Stakes Reporting," from Fresh Air, 20 May 2020

• "The 'Unresolved Legacy' of Reconstruction," from Fresh Air, 5 June 2020

• Any episode from The 1619 Project of The New York Times (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• "Historian Uncovers the Racist Roots of the 2nd Amendment," from Fresh Air, 2 June 2021

• "Brene' with Austin Channing Brown on 'I'm Still Here'," from Unlocking Us, 10 June 2020

• The Line podcast series from Apple podcasts, about former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was accused (and acquitted) of war crimes, similar to The Line tv show linked below (each episode = 1 learning activity)

Videos

• Slavery By Another Name, available streaming from the ChattState library (login required)

• Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, streaming on Netflix (subscription required)

• Citizenfour, available streaming for free (for now??) from Tubi (I had to give them my birthday)

• Segregated By Design, available streaming for free

• "Slavery in America: The Constitution to Reconstruction," a National Constitution Center program with author Clint Smith - streaming at no cost on YouTube here

• The Trial of the Chicago 7, streaming on Netflix (subscription required)

• Snowden, streaming freely on Roku TV or rentable for $3.99 from a variety of sources (AppleTV, YouTube, Amazon Prime, etc.)

• Coded Bias, streaming on Netflix (subscription required)

• The Line, a series about Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was accused (and acquitted) of war crimes, available on Apple TV+ (subscription required) (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• Interview: "Cultural spaces help counter harmful legacy of slavery, argues Bryan Stevenson," a United Nations News interview -- read or watch video -- added 4.5.2023

Readings

• "The Secret History of Guns," from The Atlantic, September 2011 (added 2.11.2023)

• "The Great Free-Speech Reversal," from The Atlantic, 27 January 2021

• "The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America's Murder Spike," by Jeff Asher & Rob Arthur, from The Atlantic, 10 January 2022.

• Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden (Amazon link)

• Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman (each chapter = 1 learning activity)

• The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man, by Luke Harding   [Note: This was the basis of the movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt]  (each chapter = 1 learning activity)

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, by Carol Anderson (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• Five Days, by Wes Moore (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal American, by Carol Anderson (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link