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Education
Videos
- Teach us all (movie)
- Separate and Unequal
- How America’s Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty
- Conquering Discrimination and Inequality in Education
- Our Failing Schools
- How to Escape Education’s Death Valley
- “Equity” vs. “Equality” in Education
- Empowering First-Gen Students to Succeed
- Why Equity Matters in Education
- Solving the Achievement Gap with Equity not Equality
- The Radical Nature of Educational Equity
- Help for the Kids the Education System Ignores
- An Education in Equality
- Teached Short Film Series
- Equity and Education in 2020
- A Tale of Two Schools: Race and Education on Long Island
- A Walk in My Shoes: Social Justice in Education
- Ensuring Educational Equity for All Students
- From Grant High School: Race Forward
- How Equity Has Helped Close the Graduation Gap
Reading
- The Effects of Racism in Education
- Equity in Education: Key Questions to Consider
- A Civil Rights Learning Journey
- What Equity Really Means in Schools
- Myth: Disparities in education are not an issue of race but rather an issue of poverty
- School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved.
- Why We Say “Opportunity Gap” Instead of “Achievement Gap”
- Inequity in Education is Your (and My) Responsibility
- Inequity is the Problem in Education
- Systemic Racism in Education
- How Systemic Racism Infiltrates Education
- Racism in Schools
- Black Principals Matter
- How the Stress of Racism Affects Learning
- Mental health impacts of racism and attitudes to diversity in Victorian Schools
- Causes and Effects of Racism in Schools
- Confronting the Crisis of Education Inequity
- Confronting the Crisis of Education Inequity
- Black Pacific Northwest Collection (Multnomah County Library)
Audio
- Revisionist History: Brown vs. Board of Education
- The Problem We All Live With Pt. I | Pt. II
- Black Lives Matter at School
- The Pedagogy of Equity and Justice
- Segregated Education
- Three Miles
- Carlos Doesn’t Remember
- Food Fight
- Educational Inequity is a Feature not a Glitch
- Education Matters
- The Cost of Segregation in Schools
- White Fragility – Part I | Part II
- Why it’s so hard to talk about racism that happens in school
Environmental Justice
Videos
Reading
Food and Hunger
Videos
Reading
- Snapshot of Hunger in 2019 (in Portland area)
- The Problem: The Status of Hunger in Oregon
- Widespread Declines, Yet Persistent Inequalities:Food Insecurity in Oregon and the US
- Finding Food Security in Portland
- Exploring Teen Food Insecurity in Portland
- Can We Solve Oregon’s Hunger Crisis with Big-Picture Boldness?
- Hunger is a racial equity issue
- Examining the Impact of Structural Racism on Food Insecurity
- Hunger is a Racial Equity Issue
- Want to Eradicate Hunger in America? Take on Racism.
- Policy expert explains that yes, food can be racist
- Our Idea of Healthy Eating Excludes Other Cultures, and That’s a Problem
- Why Food Belongs in Our Discussions of Race
- Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America’s groceries
Audio
Gender
Videos and Multimedia
Reading
- Gender Neutral Pronouns and Youth – Teen Vogue
- The Coloniality of Gender
- Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization
- How Gender Discrimination Affects Women in the Workplace
- Gender Discrimination and the Workplace
- The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary
- HRC – A Glossary of Terms
- Books and Longer Reading
Audio
Health
Videos
Reading
Housing
Videos
Reading
- How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day
- Community Land Trusts Come of Age: Blow Out the Candles and Wish for a Policy Agenda!
- Urban renewal hurt African Americans, officials say. Now Portland leaders want to make amends
- In Portland, a neighborhood designs its own solution to displacement
- The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America
- Historical Context of Racist Planning – A History of How Planning Segregated Portland
- Shorter Articles:
Audio
- A Brief History of Redlining, Part 1
- We Live Here
- Gentrification at a Midwestern pace – November 222nd, 2018
- White Flight and Reclaimed Memories – October 17th, 2017
- Portland’s Long History of Racism and White Supremacy
- Location! Location! Location! – APRIL 11, 2018
Immigration
Videos
- The Fundamental Right to Seek Asylum
- Beyond Environmental Refuge
- My Immigration Story
- What If You Were An Immigrant?
- No place like home–finding justice for climate refugees
- Immigration Reform: A Chance For a Better America
- The Myth of Legal Immigration
- What refugees need to start new lives
- What’s missing in the global debate over refugees
Reading
- “Bees, not refugees”: the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry
- Trouble in Paradise: A Historical Perspective on Immigration in Oregon
- Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 118, no. 4, 2017, pp. 460–483
- Community Needs Assessment 2017 Report – Key findings from Oregon’s immigrant and refugee communities
- State of Oregon Employment Department: Migration Patterns in the Past Five Years
- Immigrants in Oregon and Washington
- Immigrants aren’t the real threat to public lands
- What Migrants Displaced By The Dust Bowl And Climate Events Can Teach Us
- The Refugees The World Barely Pays Attention To
Audio
Income
Videos
- Reviving the American Dream: Lessons from Big Data
- Income and Wealth Inequality: Crash Course Economics #17
- Wealth: America’s other racial divide
- How economic inequality harms societies
- The Racial Wealth Gap in America
- Can Atlanta’s poor neighborhoods be lifted out of poverty?
- Toxic Inequality: How America’s Racial Wealth Gap Threatens Our Future
- How does income affect childhood brain development?
- Why it’s so hard to get off welfare
- How disadvantaged neighborhoods amplify racial inequality
Reading
- Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists
- Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
- “Barely Treading Water”: Why The Shutdown Disproportionately Affects Black Americans
- Disrupting the Racial Wealth Gap
- What Do We Do About America’s Racial Wealth Gap?
- Key findings on the rise in income inequality within America’s racial and ethnic groups
- The Mothers Who Fought To Radically Reimagine Welfare
- FACTS Racial Economic Inequality
- The Gap Between Rich And Poor Americans’ Health Is Widening
- You are here: A snapshot of where the Portland region’s working
- White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Is Old, Deep, and Nearly Unshakeable
Audio
Intersectionality
Videos
- Living on the Intersection (video accompanies the NYT article linked below)
- The Urgency of Intersectionality
- La Mission (movie, Amazon rental)
Reading
Audio
Veterans
Videos
Reading
- National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (Oregon)
- US veterans face economic and physical hardship
- Veteran Poverty by the Numbers
- US veteran civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery dies at 98
- Treated Like a “Piece of Meat”: Female Veterans Endure Harassment at the V.A.
- Military vets can face unconscious bias in the workplace
- Do veterans lack social-emotional skills? A major study finds that many civilian employers believe they do.
- Center for Minority Veterans Quarterly Report
- How Discrimination Against Black Veterans Helped Shape Urban America
- How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans
- LGBTQ veterans share experiences with homelessness, discrimination and discharge
- The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans
- As we rethink the Vietnam War, we have to grapple with its racial implications
- The New Battle Our Soldiers Face: The Bias of Some Corporate Hiring Managers
- 11 Facts About Military Discrimination
Audio
Volunteering
Videos
- The problem with voluntourism
- International Volunteering – Valuable or Vandalism?
- The White Savior Complex: The Dark Side of Volunteering
- What You Should Know Before Your Next Volunteer Trip
- How repaying loans with social service transforms communities
- Volunteering: empowering others, empowering yourself
- Viewpoints: The African American/Black Volunteer Experience
- Viewpoints: The Hispanic Volunteer Experience
- Voluntourism: When You Take More Than You Leave Behind
Reading
- Understanding Racial Equity in Volunteerism
- Diversifying the Volunteer Base: Latinos and Volunteerism
- Voices of Ethnic Volunteers in America
- Welcoming immigrants as volunteers at your organization
- Factors Associated With Volunteering Among Racial/Ethnic Groups
- The Effects of Race, Gender, and Marital Status on Giving and Volunteering in Indiana
- Recruiting Local Volunteers To Increase Diversity Among the Ranks
- Why we need to talk about ethnicity in volunteering
- 300 Volunteers For African American Museum
- Visualizing the volunteers of TEDxTehran
- Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, Religion
- NPR: Stories About Volunteering
Audio
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