Current Issues (2023)

• I Didn’t Tell You. Ever wonder what a day in the life of a person of color is like? Listen to this poem, written and spoken by Norma Johnson (7 minutes)

• Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis, Buzzfeed (5 minute viewing)

• Microaggressions: Comments that Sting, NY Times, 4 min video, 2014

• Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Equal Justice Initiative via YouTube (6 minute video)

• What's Really in the AP African-American Studies Class DeSantis Rejected, Politico Article, January 31, 2023

• A Breakdown of what was removed or changed in the AP African American Studies Framework, Tallahassee Democrat, February 3, 2023

• Did Ron DeSantis 'whitewash' an AP African American studies course?", Opinion piece published in The Week, February 3, 2023

• The Political Agenda of African American Studies, Rampant, Vincent Lloyd, February 10, 2023

• What Afro-Latinos Want you to Know Youtube, 4 minute video, 2018

• Covid 19 and the rise of Anti-Asian Hate, OCA (Organization for Chinese Americans) fact sheet.

• “The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asian Americans” by Jeff Guo, in conversation with Ellen Wu about her book, The Color of Success. 6 min video/20 min read

• The Future of Race in America, Michelle Alexander via TEDx Columbus (23 minutes: author of The New Jim Crow speaks on the justice system)