Educational Readings Regarding Race (and other injustices) in the U.S.

These are just starting points

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/21/martin-luther-king-jr-day-legacy-radical 
2. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/4/1/malcolm-and-martin
3. http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html
4. https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf
5. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf
6. https://genius.com/James-baldwin-a-talk-to-teachers-annotated 
7. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
8. https://www.muhlenberg.edu/media/contentassets/pdf/campuslife/SDP%20Reading%20Lorde.pdf
9. https://abhmuseum.org/war-on-drugs-or-war-on-blacks/
10. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/
11. https://www.nfg.org/news/capitalism-and-racism-conjoined-twins
12. https://blavity.com/blavity-original/how-alice-walker-created-womanism-the-movement-that-meets-black-women-where-feminism-misses-the-mark
13. https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really 
14. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer 
15. https://chacruna.net/how-white-feminists-oppress-black-women-when-feminism-functions-as-white-supremacy/ 
16. https://www.crmvet.org/docs/otheram.htm 
17. https://longreads.com/2017/04/06/the-bitter-history-of-law-and-order-in-america/ 
18. https://www.theroot.com/from-most-hated-to-american-hero-the-whitewashing-of-m-1824258876 
19. https://www.theweek.co.uk/cultural-appropriation 
20. https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/ 
21. https://timeline.com/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence-4de177a8c87b 
22. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1966-stokely-carmichael-black-power/ 
23. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-panther-party/ 
24. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/ 
25. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/police-officers-convicted-fatal-shootings-are-exception-not-rule-n982741 
26. https://www.postandcourier.com/news/he-told-charleston-police-i-am-not-your-enemy-then-he-was-handcuffed/article_e7de4b0a-a43f-11ea-a019-1f9e6a20ea55.html 
27. https://thenewinquiry.com/in-defense-of-looting/ 
28. https://truthout.org/articles/how-capitalism-and-racism-support-each-other/
29. https://broadwaynews.com/2020/06/04/opinion-im-tired-of-being-the-token-black-friend/ 
30. http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/the-strategy/
31. https://medium.com/@rnagarajah2/reflections-from-a-token-black-friend-2f1ea522d42d 
32. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/redlining-what-is-history-mike-bloomberg-comments/
33. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/

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