Talking About Discrimination, Race and Civil Rights
Against a backdrop of significant civil rights gains, a black American president and major demographic shifts, how do we think about civil rights and racial justice in the 21st century? Young people speak out about what discrimination, affirmative action and civil...Storycorps: A More Perfect Union
When Theresa Burroughs came of voting age, she was ready to cast her ballot—but she had a long fight ahead of her. During the Jim Crow era, the board of registrars at Alabama’s Hale County Courthouse prevented African Americans from registering to vote....Black and Muslim: Double Jeopardy
This film explores the intersectionality between racism and religious discrimination by capturing the experience of a number of Black British Muslim converts. These individuals have experienced anti-black racism as well as islamaphobia, and the film explores the...Storycorps: Driven
Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, he poured his heart, soul, and all of his earnings into maintaining his own race car. His son, Frank, remembers what it took for his father to cross the...Read more“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
– Elie Wiesel (Holocaust Survivor)
Read more“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King