"Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory."
"Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Kaya Henderson, De’Ara Balenger, and others."
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, 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.
This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards.
The fields of psychology, counseling, and education have played an important role in combating social injustice historically. However, it has been argued that current training models have de-emphasized social justice efforts in favor of remedial interventions. This presentation discusses the ways in which psychologists, counselors, and educators can serve as agents of social justice in their professional settings. Specifically, the importance of advocacy and public policy work is discussed. Advocacy skill sets and dispositions are presented along with recommendations for how research can have a greater impact on public policy.
An investigation into the billions spent on housing the poor, and why so few get the help they need. With NPR, the film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis.
Includes content on Social Justice
Economic inequality has become a matter of growing concern in the United States. As Americans face a reckoning on racial and social justice and work to combat the broad, uneven financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, should the U.S. government undertake major efforts to redistribute the nation's wealth from richer people and communities to poorer ones? Should the United States address growing inequality by overhauling the tax system, expanding the social safety net, and investing more in public initiatives like education, infrastructure, and universal health care? Or would such efforts stunt economic growth, unfairly punish the wealthy, destroy the promise of a meritocracy, and inevitably lead to excessive government intervention in people's lives? Is it time to redistribute the wealth?
The Social Justice Month Keynote with Alicia Garza was held on January 28, 2021.
Alicia Garza is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people, and author of the new book “The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.”