http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice

 

In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

Asaf Manvi interviews Foghorn Leghorn about the latest North Carolina Voting Rights Laws.  Connections to Crow.


http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-23-2013/suppressing-the-vote

Henry Louis Gates Jr. On Untangling African-American History   (an NPR interview about his upcoming series PBS documentary The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.)

On the failures of the "Conversation About Race"

Every time there's a racial incident in this country, there are calls by our political leaders by our activists, our spokespersons for the so-called "conversation about race." So what does the conversation about race mean? People gather together in a kind of town meeting. They stand up and talk anecdotally about pains and slights... And then everyone feels better and they go home ... And then a couple weeks later there's another Trayvon Martin shooting. Real conversations about crucial things in America happen in our schools. Schools have always, from the beginning of the republic, been the venue for the shaping of citizenship. The presence of African Americans has to be integrated into the story we tell about the founding of this great republic and its settlement, and its expansion.

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239706593/henry-louis-gates-jr-on-untangling-african-american-history

Building Background Knowledge 2

 A Peaceful City Gone Violent

Building Background Knowledge

Prelude to A Riot
Watch this 8 min video to get a better understanding

of  Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898.