The 70 Million documentary podcast investigates how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Our reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by encounters with jails and adjacent policies, and from those committed to reversing the negative effects on people and communities.
Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide and unite America.
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson, and De’Ara Balenger
Scene on Radio is a podcast that tells stories exploring human experience and American society. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and is distributed by PRX.
Co-created by Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, and joined by contributors seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom
An 1839 assassination of a Cherokee leader and a 1999 murder case – two crimes nearly two centuries apart provide the backbone to a 2020 Supreme Court decision that determined the fate of five tribes and nearly half the land in Oklahoma.
A small town. A brutal murder. A journey into the heart of America’s unfinished business. Unfinished: Deep South is a race to resolve the unfinished business of a small Arkansas town by starting with one question: who lynched Isadore Banks?
The United States of Anxiety is a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future. Many of the political and social arguments we're having now started in the aftermath of the Civil War, when Americans set out to do something no one had tried before: build the world's first multiracial democracy. The podcast gives voters the context to understand what's at stake in this election.
When it comes to policing in America, a seemingly impenetrable system stands in the way of ending police violence. Jay’s mission: demystify police union contracts, separate truth from fiction, and deliver some concrete steps that can end violent police misconduct across the United States.
What's Ray Saying? is a podcast that takes a deeper view into Black life in America by examining the intersection of history, narrative, and experience.
As protests force a reckoning on policing, MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on how Black activists and artists have confronted government racism, both in their work and their own lives.
Director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy?
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: Main Stacks 305.48 BERRY 2020
ISBN: 9780807033562
Publication Date: 2020
"A compact, exceptionally diverse introduction to the history of Black women in America, rooted in “everyday heroism." -Kirkus
How to be an AntiRacist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: Main Stacks 305.8 KENDI 2019
ISBN: 9780525509295
Publication Date: 2019
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: Main Stacks 305.8 KENDI 2016
ISBN: 9781568584638
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
Call Number: Main Stacks 306.302 BAPTIST 2014
ISBN: 9780465044702
Publication Date: 2014-09-09
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Call Number: Main Stacks 970.004 DUNBAR 2014
ISBN: 9780807000403
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz