Oesterle Library: Black Lives Matter: For Students

Videos & TED Talks

‘How Racial Bias Works - and How to Disrupt It”
By Jennifer L. Eberhardt
TED talk
"Radical Self Care"
By Alicia Garza
Tips for Activists from a Black Feminist Perspective
Youtube
"Five Tips for Being a Good Ally"
By Chescaleigh
Youtube
"We Need to Talk About an Injustice"
By Bryan Stevenson
TED Talk
"The Urgency of Intersectionality
By Kimberlé Crenshaw
TED talk
"The Future of Race in America
By Michelle Alexander
Youtube

Don't Call Me Ni**er
Maya Bryant
On Black experience at North Central College
In Defense of Black Rage
Brittney Cooper
On Black Anger
Why You Need to Stop Saying "All Lives Matter"
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
On responding to "all lives matter"
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
Ibram X. Kendi
On race and fear
The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates
On why history matters
A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Alicia Garza
On the origin of Black Lives Matter

1619
On the legacy of American slavery
16 Shots
On the police killing of Laquan McDonald and the trial that followed
Code Switch
Wide-ranging conversations about race and culture
Intersectionality Matters!
Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses intersections of race and other identities like gender and sexuality
Other: Mixed Race in America
Personal stories about the "mythic American melting pot"