VIDEOS ON HOUSING

Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: a Short History | Code Switch | Npr

• Read "How Segregation Shapes Fatal Police Violence"
• Read or listen to: "The Color Of Law' Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation"

​DC Attorney General Files Housing Discrimination Lawsuit

WUSA9 has been reporting on the frequency of what's known as Source of Income discrimination. In the District, landlords can never say or advertise they won't accept housing vouchers.

 

VIDEOS ON HEALTH CARE

Minority Health Disparities - Michelle’s Story (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Michelle R. Simmons is a patient, mother and grandmother who understands firsthand the impact of health disparity in her family and in her community. Her commitment to her own health and the health of her family and community, makes her a powerful partner with Johns Hopkins Medicine to reverse the impact of health disparities. More information here.

Racial Equity a Concern With Covid-19 Vaccines

Racial disparities with vaccine distribution.
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Newly-released numbers reveal racial disparities in the District with the vaccine rollout. Virginia and Maryland are also facing the same problem and now they're working to fix it.

Read more here.

 

VIDEOS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT

History of Policing in America | Throughline | Npr

To help give some historical context to the police killing of George Floyd and so many other black people in this country, we at NPR's Throughline podcast wanted to take a deep look at the history of policing in America. We wanted to understand how the relationship between police and the Black community had evolved to one so bloody and tragic.
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We talked to Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard. He lays out a historical argument for how Black people have been criminalized over the past 400 years, in both the North and the South. The histories of both regions share one key feature: the use of brutal force to control Black Americans.

The Origins of Policing in America | Perspective

Protests against police violence are shining new light on the role that police play in American society—now and in the past. Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people in the 19th century and beyond.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the director of the Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and the author of "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America". Chenjerai Kumanyika is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and was the co-host of Gimlet Media's "Uncivil" podcast about the Civil War.
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Read more here.

 

VIDEOS ON EDUCATION

Education Gap: the Root of Inequality

Education may be the key to solving broader American inequality, but we have to solve educational inequality first. Harvard’s Ronald Ferguson, director of The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, says there is progress being made, there are encouraging examples to emulate, that an early start is critical, and that a lot of hard work lies ahead. But he also says, “There’s nothing more important we can do."

“Teach Us All” Documentary Explores Education Inequality

Sixty years ago today, nine black students entered an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new documentary "Teach Us All" honors the Little Rock Nine. It explores how educational inequality still plagues the U.S. six decades later. Bianna Golodryga spoke to director Sonia Lowman and backer Ava DuVernay about the film.
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VIDEOS ON WEALTH BUILDING BANKING

Wealth Inequality in America

Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.

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The Racial Wealth Gap in America

Though the United States is one of the wealthiest countries, to many Americans this prosperity remains out of reach. Blacks and Hispanics, who are striving to make a better life for themselves and their families, are not given the same asset building opportunities.

​This animation is based on research by Eugene Steuerle, Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Sisi Zhang of the Urban Institute. Read the full research here.