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Video, Film, and Podcast Resources

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Featured Video Resources

The following videos are from Religion News Service's new Becoming Less Racist Series:

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Videos

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses White Fragility
  Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, explains the phenomenon, and discusses how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively across race.
• How Racism Makes Us Sick
  Public health sociologist David R. Williams describes the negative health effects of racism in the United States.
• How to Teach Kids to Talk About Taboo Topics
  Educator Liz Kleinrock teaches kids to discuss taboo topics without fear – because the best way to start solving social problems is to talk about them.
• Jane Elliott on Her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise on Unconscious Bias” is interviewed by Jimmy Fallon
  Teacher and diversity trainer Jane Elliott talks about her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise," the construct of race and what everyone can do in the fight against racism.
• Trevor Noah, “George Floyd and the Dominos of Racial Justice,”
  The Daily Show host shares his thoughts on the many ways that the contract between society and Black Americans has been broken time and time again.
• Miss Universe: We Can’t Be What We Can’t See
  Miss America, Miss Universe and Miss USA talk with CNN's Erica Hill about Jamaica's Toni-Ann Singh winning Miss World, making the top five beauty pageant winners women of color.
• Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk?
  When her 3-year-old son told her that a classmate told him that his skin was brown because he drank chocolate milk, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum was surprised.
• Sometimes You’re A Caterpillar
  Learn more about privilege and how to understand it.
• East Ohio Conference Media Center Resources on Race
  View one of the many DVD resources on racism available to members of the Media Center.

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Featured Films

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Films

• 10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Color To Explain Things For You
  Invest in watching some or all of these important documentaries about race, racial prejudices and privilege within our society.
• How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
  In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, Baratunde Thurston reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing – while challenging us all to level up.

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Featured Audio Podcasts

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Audio Podcasts

• NPR: White Lies
  Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions in this 14-part documentary series.
  
• NPR: Throughline
  The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present through stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.
• Mayor Melvin Carter, St. Paul, MN PBS Newshour Weekend interview
  On this edition for Sunday, May 31, chaos and clashes across the nation continue as some protests over the murder of George Floyd turn violent, the history of activism and its influence on political change.
• Raising White Kids Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race
  NPR's Michel Martin talks to Jennifer Harvey, author of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, about how to talk with white kids about racially-charged events.
• Talking Race With Young Children
  Even babies notice differences like skin color, eye shape and hair texture. Here's how to handle conversations about race, racism, diversity and inclusion, even with very young children.