People:
The links below
(which are in color) take you to a selection of
course-related news, research, articles, reports, etc.
A reminder: keeping up with the news via sites such as
the www.BBC.com is
a requirement in this course. Reminder: the more you
feed your brain with knowledge the better it is for
your brain as it matures in the second and final stage
of its development—teens to mid-twenties—that most of
you are now undergoing. (Read article available here to
see what I mean.)
Links below
are categorized under the following headings:
A: Africa
AF: African American Studies
AR: Armed Violence / Guns / War / Militarism /
Terrorism / Extremism
B: Brain and Learning
CL: Class / Classism / Capitalism
DI: Disability
ED: Education / Pedagogy
EV: Environment
GE: Gender
HE: Health / Food
HI: History—General
IM: Immigrants/ Refugees/ Undocumented Workers
IN: International News
LA: Labor and Exploitation
LW: Law/ Prisons/ Policing
MA: Mass Media / Social Media / Entertainment / Sports
MI: Miscellaneous Topics
MU: Music
PO: Politics
RA: Race/ Ethnicity/ Right Wing Extremism
RI: Race/Ethnicity —International
RE: Religion
SA: Space Exploration
TE: Technology
A: Africa
- The
Scottish boat that helps feed Malawi
- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/opinion/the-future-of-slavery-s-past.html
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35189388
<-- Make sure you study all the images carefully
when you access this item.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/an-african-country-reckons-with-its-history-of-selling-slaves/2018/01/29/5234f5aa-ff9a-11e7-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html
- https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/16/newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech_on
/Newly
Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights,
Segregation & Apartheid South Africa
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-troubling-origins-of-the-skeletons-in-a-new-york-museum
- Boko
Haram crisis: US deploys troops in Cameroon
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36166970
- China mines in Zambia 'unsafe' says Human Rights
Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15569310
- China in Zambia: Jobs or exploitation? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11898960
- http://www.nature.com/news/health-agency-reveals-scourge-of-fake-drugs-in-developing-world-1.23051
- Poaching boom sees thousands of elephants killed in
Gabon http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21352722
- US uses drones to target al-Qaeda in the Horn of
Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15012962
- Charles Taylor 'worked' for CIA in Liberia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16627628
- The Spotlight Shines on Another Central African
Warlord http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/14/148611020/the-spotlight-shines-on-another-central-african-warlord
- The new black elite: Eating sushi while sitting on a
ticking bomb. (South Africa) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/12/black-elite-ticking-bomb
- South Africa xenophobia: Africa reacts http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32354993
- South African mob kills migrants http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7396868.stm
- South Africa's xenophobic attacks: Fear and shame http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32299548
- https://youtu.be/LkWldwFdTPo
South Sudan may be heading towards genocide
- https://youtu.be/Gn1_-ZcdNQE
Central African Republic: The forgotten crisis
- https://youtu.be/dlIYbqEpX08
South Sudan faces famine, potential genocide in civil
war
- https://youtu.be/B932JeZus9I
How South Sudan's Kiir and Machar 'profited during
war' - BBC News
- https://youtu.be/9DXLoRMMVJ0
South Sudan leaders used chaos of war to loot
billions, investigation reveals
- https://youtu.be/Vn1evQBK4-c
Darfur China's Secret War Full Documentary
- https://youtu.be/FZMogXUA4U8
Meet with the Janjaweed 01
- https://qz.com/1226112/fake-food-or-fraud-food-in-nigeria-kenya-and-other-african-countries/
AF: African American
Studies
- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/the-ongoing-battle-over-ethnic-studies/472422/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/why-not-take-a-black-studies-class/475782/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/03/why-didnt-you-take-a-black-studies-course-in-college/475596/
AR: Armed Violence /
Guns / War / Militarism / Terrorism / Extremism
- Has the US forgotten about World War One? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42160971
- *Guns
in the U.S.--Guns-related Deaths: Data
- *U.S.
Mass Shootings: Mother Jones Database
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/the-hidden-inequality-of-who-dies-in-car-crashes/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-year-end/
- http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465257993/who-are-americas-homegrown-terrorists
<-- Read the transcript up to the first "SOUNDBITE
OF MUSIC" subheading. If you can, listen to the
podcast as well while reading the transcript
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead
- U.S.
Right-Wing Extremism
- Report
on Right-Wing Extremism
- White
Extremist Terrorism: Quebec Mosque Attack: Student
Charged
- White
Extremist Terrorism: (and the power of forgiveness)
- White
Extremist Terrorism--New York City (Here
& Now)
- Terrorism
versus Murders in the U.S. Playing the Muslim Card
- MH17
Report on Malaysian Airlines Ukrainian Crash
- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/18/why-did-we-panic-after-9-11-and-ignore-all-we-knew-about-responding-to-security-threats.html
(On torture. NOTE: the U.S. is one of the scores of
countries that signed up to the U.N. Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment)
- (a) http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data
[*]
- (b) http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/10/2/9439435/americas-gun-violence-statistics
[*]
- http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/12/14/gun-control-gun-rights-worldwide
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/shooting-in-oregon-11-essential-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-america
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead
- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
- US 'wasted $30bn on Afghanistan and Iraq' over
decade http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14712172
- Report Finds Fraud, Waste by War Contractors Costs
Billions http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec11/warcontracts_09-01.html#transcript
- Russia angry at Viktor Bout's US guilty verdict http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15572775
- Profile: Viktor Bout http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11036569
- 'Kremlin links' of alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12208961
- 'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout sentenced to 25
years http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17634050
- World War I Nurse http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/nurse-honored-augusta-chiwy/<--alternative
link
- A fading past: How America remembers World War I http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17620822
- Suicides down among US soldiers but violent crimes
rise http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16642867
- Veterans battle homelessness as they return from war
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13983279
- 'Comfort women' snub Japan Osaka Mayor Hashimoto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22650673
- What Japanese history lessons leave out http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21226068
- Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanking http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/39166.stm
- France to increase pensions for Africa war veterans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10617955
- A Farewell To Carrot Cake (And Other Things Lost
Without World War I) (What If World War I had never
happened) http://www.npr.org/2014/03/13/288705963/a-farewell-to-carrot-cake-and-other-things-lost-without-world-war-i
- Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually
Impossible to Block http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block
- http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
America's gun culture in 10 charts
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40336048
Guns kill 1,300 US children every year, study finds
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15193530
Michael Petit: Why child abuse is so acute in the US
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15288865
America's child death shame
B: Brain and Learning
- http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38653906
/Babies remember their birth language – scientists
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141216-can-you-live-with-half-a-brain
- http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/43805/20160714/man-lives-a-normal-life-despite-missing-90-percent-of-his-brain-doctors-wonder-how.htm
- http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/03/poverty-may-affect-growth-children-s-brains
[*]
- http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/484129501/researchers-examine-family-income-and-childrens-non-cognitive-skills
[*]
CL: Class / Classism /
Capitalism
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/25/why-it-costs-so-much-to-be-poor-in-america/
- Tax
Cuts for the Wealthy
- Current
Real Tax Rates Paid by Top U.S. Corporations
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poverty-politics-and-profit/
- https://qz.com/1185054/world-economic-forum-is-the-inclusive-development-index-a-better-measure-of-progress-than-gdp/
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/24/475499651/3-years-later-bangladeshi-survivors-remember-the-collapse-of-rana-plaza
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/24/475432149/could-you-come-up-with-400-if-disaster-struck
- https://towardfreedom.com/archives/globalism/the-billionaire-boom-82-of-global-wealth-produced-last-year-went-to-richest-1/
- https://qz.com/883348/americans-continue-to-kid-themselves-that-if-you-work-hard-you-can-climb-the-ladder/
Data show the “American Dream” is a fallacy and
Americans still don’t realize it
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-wealth-oxfam.html
World’s
8 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half of Global
Population
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844
(Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's
tax havens)
- https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/widespread-inequality-risks-increasing-race-tensions-warns-commission
- http://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477547366/is-america-engaged-in-a-vicious-cycle-of-jailing-the-poor
https://www.revealnews.org/article/who-got-rich-off-the-student-debt-crisis [*]
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-poverty-america-special-rapporteur
- https://qz.com/886516/martin-luther-king-jr-was-decades-ahead-of-his-time-in-advocating-for-a-universal-basic-income/
(On universal income -- Mlk)
- World Inequality Report 2018 http://wir2018.wid.world/executive-summary.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/14/world-richest-increased-wealth-same-amount-as-poorest-half
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur
- Panama
Papers Q&A: What is the scandal about?
- http://www.grunge.com/26656/shady-secrets-wal-mart-doesnt-want-know/s/wal-marts-employees-drain-public-assistance-government-programs-and-wal-mart-wants-it-that-way/
- http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/07/paradise-papers-roil-the-worlds-elite
- [Do Immigrants Cost Jobs?] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2017/12/our-town-the-economist%E2%80%99s-report
- Bringing
Back Corruption: Helping Wall Street fight Main
Street (I)
- Bringing
Back Corruption: Helping Wall Street Fight Main
Street (II)
- Corruption
on Wall Street: Insider Trading
- *Capitalism
at Work: The U.S. Trade Deficit
- The
New Face of U.S. Unemployment
- Income
inequality and Domestic Politics
- Income
Inequality: China versus the United States
- Capitalism
and the Future of Jobs
- Capitalism
and the Future of Work
- Predatory
Capitalism versus Socially Responsible Capitalism:
Universal Basic Income
- *The
Continuing Assaults on Unions
- *Cotton
Production and Forced Labor
- Working
Class Anti-Unionism
- Not
Saving for Retirement
- Interesting
facts about U.S. currency
- Cutting
Taxes for the Rich while Imposing it on the Rest of
Us
- Right to Work
Laws = Right to Exploit Laws (Smell the Coffee!)
- INTEL
cuts prices on its CPUs in anticipation of Ryzen
(Capitalism, Competition, and Class Warfare)
- Corporations
versus Small Businesses
- The
Paradise Papers (The Panama Papers Redux?)
- Trumpism
and the Economy
- Class
Warfare: Assaulting Internet Privacy of Consumers
- Website
for Economic Data
- World's Billionaires http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/
- Zhai Meiqing at the forefront of Chinese
philanthropy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15
- Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Philanthropy: The
$600 Billion Challenge
- Gates, Buffett Say China Charity Meeting a Success http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/world/asia/01china.html
- Cameron to unveil Islamic bond plan (socially
responsible investing) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24722440
- What is 'Islamic finance'? (socially responsible
investing) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21784419
- Islamic finance faces growth challenges (socially
responsible investing) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20405292
- When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to
Sue http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/business/when-liking-a-brand-online-voids-the-right-to-sue.html
- General Mills Amends New Legal Policies http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/business/general-mills-amends-new-legal-policies.html
- How did the US debt get so bad?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14760684
- Is Occupy Wall Street bad for the American
Dream? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15301200
- Why the Haves Have So Much http://www.npr.org/2011/10/29/141816778/why-the-haves-have-so-much
- Raising Minimum Wage: A Help or Harm? http://www.npr.org/2012/07/08/156458470/raising-minimum-wage-a-help-or-harm
- How
Well Can You Live on Minimum Wage? (nominal
wages versus real wages)
- Census: 1 in 15 Americans Among the Poorest of the
Poor http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec11/poverty_11-03.html
- The
U.S. Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest
- Millionaires'
Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1
Million-Plus http://www.opensecrets.org
- Cell
Phone Robocalls Ignite Debate in Congress
- In Aftermath of Financial Crisis, Who's Being Held
Responsible? http://www.pbs.org
- Land of the Free, Home of the Poor http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_08-16.html
- HSBC blasted for 'stunning failures over
oversight' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20683421
- Awash
In Cash, Drug Cartels Rely On Big Banks To Launder
Profits Clock ticks on Swiss banking
secrecy (About tax-evasion by the super-rich)
- Tax evasion http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22594736
- Credit Suisse 'aided' US tax evaders http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26335432
- What Do Americans Think About Income Inequality?http://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/265358297/what-do-americans-think-about-income-inequality
(Alternative
source for this item)
- Fast-Food CEOs Earn Supersize Salaries; Workers Earn
Small Potatoes http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/22/305859588/fast-food-ceos-earn-supersized-salaries-workers-earn-small-potatoes
- Russian and Chinese companies 'most likely to
bribe' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15544841
- Was the food crisis in Kenya avoidable? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14458109
- Jack Abramoff: From Corrupt Lobbyist To Washington
Reformer http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/11/18/142506057/jack-abramoff-from-corrupt-lobbyist-to-washington-reformer
- Congressmen's incomes triple while America gets
poorer http://rt.com/usa/news/wealth-congress-lawmakers-poor-759/
- Inequality in modern-day America is worse than
Ancient Rome http://rt.com/usa/news/inequality-ancient-percent-empire-287/
- Take the Money and Run http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office
- Welfare
for Ex-U.S. Presidents
- After Bangladesh Factory Disaster, Efforts Show
Mixed Progress http://www.npr.org/2014/04/24/306255669/after-bangladesh-factory-disaster-efforts-show-mixed-progress
- Frantic search for survivors after Dhaka building
collapse
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22289362
- Tax avoidance: Developing countries take on
multinationals http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22638153
- Study:
Housing Bust Hit U.S. Minority Households Especially
Hard
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-real-reason-many-americans-stay-poor-2018-02-13
DI: Disability
- https://rewire.news/article/2018/02/05/one-three-disabled-women-sexually-assaulted-campus-new-report-urges-ways-combat/
- https://dredf.org/legal-advocacy/school-to-prison-pipeline/
- https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2013/the-schooltoprison-pipeline
- https://inclusivity.consulting/2017/12/08/school-prison-pipeline-intersection-race-disability/
- https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2016/07/18/141447/disabled-behind-bars/
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dedrick-muhammad/race-wealth-and-disabilit_b_11194954.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/materials/infographic-disabilities-ethnicity-race.html
- https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/prisoners-physical-disabilities-are-forgotten-and
- https://www.thenation.com/article/invisible-punishment-prisoners-disabilities/
- https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/08/23/disability/
- http://www.thefeministwire.com/2013/11/war-and-disability/
War, women, and disability
- http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article24746680.html
Millions went to war in Iraq, Afghanistan, leaving
many with lifelong scars
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/10/the-invisible-power-of-big-glasses-eyewear-industry-essilor-luxottica
- http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
ED: Education /
Pedagogy
- Teaching While Black https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/02/03/dealing-discrimination-black-faculty-member-essay
- Profiting
on the Backs of Students: The For-Profit College
Scam (Fresh Air)
- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/subtle-racism-is-alive-in-the-academys-corridors
- The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/balancing-academia-racism/424887/
- http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/19/446085513/the-evidence-that-white-children-benefit-from-integrated-schools
[*]
- https://thinkprogress.org/5-things-that-make-it-hard-to-be-a-black-student-at-a-mostly-white-college-33ef44abe034/
- http://www.theguardian.com/careers/ten-signs-career-coding-software-development-right-for-you
- https://www.slideshare.net/ElisabethChan/cultural-and-linguistic-discrimination-of-international-students-3-1713
- http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/learning-self-control.html
- History Class and the Fictions About Race in America
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-history-class-dilemma/411601/
- http://www.npr.org/2015/07/16/423605191/nice-kids-finish-first-study-finds-social-skills-can-predict-future-success
- https://hundred.org/en
(Successful schools: What works; learning from others)
- Education reform: Teaching the teachers https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21700385-great-teaching-has-long-been-seen-innate-skill-reformers-are-showing-best
- http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/11/16/415212006/did-you-know-you-can-lower-your-student-loan-payments-i-didnt
[*]
- http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_working_papers/working_papers/wp5
- http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_working_papers/working_papers/wp11/
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131125-why-the-stupid-say-theyre-smart
- http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/11/14/454858044/your-school-shapes-how-you-think-about-inequality
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-race-and-success-how-your-school-district-compares.html
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/27/503502142/people-donated-nearly-100-000-to-dig-a-big-pointless-hole-in-the-ground
(On stupidity: the world is full of suckers!)[*]
- http://www.businessinsider.com/5-traits-all-emotionally-intelligent-leaders-share-2018-1
- The
Incalculable Value of Finding a Job You Love
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2017/01/24/the-dunning-kruger-effect-shows-why-some-people-think-theyre-great-even-when-their-work-is-terrible
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131125-why-the-stupid-say-theyre-smart
- https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/savingandinvesting/14-money-lessons-rich-parents-teach-their-kids/ar-BBIi3UY
- https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/21704-3-lessons-on-managing-criticism-from-others
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/i-tried-emailing-like-your-boss
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180124-the-enduring-appeal-of-conspiracy-theories
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160323-why-are-people-so-incredibly-gullible
- https://www.npr.org/2017/11/17/564608245/wendy-troxel-does-high-school-start-too-early
- Computers
'do not improve' pupil results, says OECD
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/upshot/first-rule-of-the-job-hunt-find-something-you-love-to-do.html
[*]
- Department of
Education finds pattern of inequality by race in
public schools (The school-to-prison pipeline)
- Study finds high SAT and ACT
scores might not spell success at college
(SATs--good intentions gone awry)
- The New SAT: Less Vocabulary, More Linear Equations
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/16/303769778/the-new-sat-less-vocabulary-more-linear-equations
- $1 trillion student loan debt widens US wealth gap http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-trillion-student-loan-debt-141440433.html
- Who
Gets to Define Ethnic Studies? / The
Future of Ethnic Studies
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/304563233/what-exactly-is-high-quality-preschool
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/23/306158139/can-high-quality-preschool-make-a-big-difference-later-on
- http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/education/what-do-students-actually-learn-college
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305960143/high-court-upholds-michigans-affirmative-action-ban
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/23/306158125/propronents-of-affirmative-action-losing-the-battle
- http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/22/public-strongly-backs-affirmative-action-programs-on-campus/
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/23/306102467/income-inequality-is-a-major-barrier-to-attending-college
- https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557418328/tristan-harris-do-our-devices-control-more-than-we-think
- https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557421075/ali-velshi-in-an-age-of-alternative-facts-how-do-we-know-what-s-true
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/24/306167197/when-money-trumps-need-in-college-admissions
- http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring
- http://nypost.com/2014/05/30/teen-student-jumps-to-death-after-shes-caught-cheating/
- http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hidden-deal-public-service-debt-forgiveness-for-grads-2014-06-09
- Pataki's SUNY Shock (An old news story that
continues to have relevance today)
http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-02-11/news/pataki-s-suny-shock/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/01/09/a-white-racism-class-just-started-at-a-florida-university-police-were-on-standby
- http://theconversation.com/why-i-teach-a-course-called-white-racism-90093
- https://longreads.com/2018/02/20/the-great-online-school-scam/
EV: Environment
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/war-on-the-epa/
- Plastic pollution: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42920383
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qve8nb/epa-scott-pruitt-global-warming-isnt-so-bad-vgtrn
- The
Melting of the Ice Caps--A Disaster in the Making
- https://www.marchforscience.com
- War
on Science and a Safe Environment
- http://www.npr.org/2015/11/10/455432704/rich-nations-should-pay-to-preserve-amazon-rainforest-brazilian-politician-says
- https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/food-system-shock-climate-changes-greatest-threat-to-civilization
- Marine
population halved since 1970 - report
- Obama scraps tighter smog rules http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14771354
- The world at seven billion http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15368276
- Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18239107
- Legacy of Bhopal disaster poisons Olympics http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18254334
- CITES meeting to deal with species 'extinction
crisis' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21629176
- 'Dark Money'
Provides the Fuel Behind Global Warming Denial
- https://rewire.news/article/2017/03/01/report-flint-crisis-couldnt-happened-whiter-wealthier-cities/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/15/pollution-is-substantially-worse-in-minority-neighborhoods-across-the-u-s/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-poor-neighborhoods-breate-more-hazardous-particles/#
- http://fortune.com/2016/02/04/environmental-race-poverty-flint/
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/urban-noise-pollution-worst-poor-minority-neighborhoods-segregated-cities
- http://radio.wosu.org/post/along-rust-belt-minority-communities-segregated-air-pollution
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/air-pollution-minority-communities_us_57fa6cd6e4b0b6a4303324c8
- https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/04/25/136361/5-things-to-know-about-communities-of-color-and-environmental-justice/
GE: Gender
- Rape on the Night Shift https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/
- https://qz.com/1190996/scientific-research-shows-gender-is-not-just-a-social-construct/
- https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-25/gold-medalist-dominique-moceanu-warned-us-10-years-ago-about-abuse-usa-gymnastics
- #MeToo was started for black and brown women and
girls. They’re still being ignored https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/09/the-waitress-who-works-in-the-diner-needs-to-know-that-the-issue-of-sexual-harassment-is-about-her-too/
- https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/11/26/female-sports-reporters-sexual-harassment-media-circus
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/nov/30/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-full-list
- https://conditionallyaccepted.com/2017/03/03/series-sexual-violence/
- http://www.slate.com/blogs/better_life_lab/2017/11/14/in_an_industry_rife_with_hidden_abuses_victories_in_eight_states_point_the.html
- http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/27/why-domestic-workers-need-a-bill-of-rights/
- https://www.domesticworkers.org/sites/default/files/bs_dw_trafficking_infographic.jpg
- Just Like Family (Domestic Workers) https://linkedthroughslavery.com/2015/06/28/just-like-family/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-question-of-race-in-campus-sexual-assault-cases/539361/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy/538974/
- Navigating STEM: Afro Caribbean Women Overcoming
Barriers of Gender and Race http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244017742689
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/13/black-woman-always-fetishised-racism-in-bedroom
- Romance [rape as mass entertainment] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/when-pop-culture-sells-dangerous-myths-about-romance/549749/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/us/a-third-of-college-women-experience-unwanted-sexual-contact-study-finds.html
[*]
- https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571911565/how-battles-over-sex-gender-and-sexual-orientation-fractured-american-politics
- https://www.splendidtable.org/story/harassment-in-the-restaurant-industry-francis-lam-commentary
- Race in the US: Herstory http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/09/race-herstory-150904052450065.html
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa338b/rick-perry-apparently-thinks-fossil-fuels-are-a-good-way-to-stop-sexual-assault-vgtrn
- Sexual
Harassment in the Virtual World
- Race,
Gender, Marginality, and Historical Amnesia
- Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace-I
- Conservative
Women and the Male Gaze
- Intimate
Partner Sexual Violence
- Death
During Childbirth: the U.S. Story
- Intersectionality
in
the Real World: Becoming Ms. Burton (radio
program)
- Transgender
Teen Murdered and Mutilated
- http://www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com
- Hunting
Ground Action Toolkit
- http://www.npr.org/2015/11/17/455888062/for-women-income-inequality-continues-into-retirement
- CDC Survey: 1 In 4 Women Attacked By Partner http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143735043/cdc-survey-finds-1-in-4-women-attacked-by-partner
- UK to launch anti-rape scheme in war zones http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18245780
- Guns, Girls, and Games http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s9jly
- Viewpoint: What if women ruled the world? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21661744
- Justice Department Announces More Than $12.6 Million
in Grants to 20 Communities to Reduce Dating
- Violence http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/February/13-ovw-256.html
- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1is2many
1 is 2 Many (sexual violence and harassment in
college)
- Change In Law May Spur Campus Action On Sexual
Assaults http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/02/28/173161650/change-in-law-may-spur-campus-action-on-sexual-assaults
- Ohio Rape Case: Charges Possible Over Silence http://news.sky.com/story/1066082/ohio-rape-case-charges-possible-over-silence
- Republicans Take Credit For Violence Against Women
Act After Voting Against it http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/republicans-vawa-take-credit-voted-against.php
- International
Women's Day 2013: 7 Sadly Disturbing Truths
About Women's Bodies (HOW YOU CAN HELP)
- Off The Battlefield, Military Women Face Risks From
Male Troops http://www.npr.org/2013/03/20/174756788/off-the-battlefield-military-women-face-risks-from-male-troops
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/06/02/female-named-hurricanes-kill-more-than-male-because-people-dont-respect-them-study-finds/
- Do Female-Named Hurricanes Need To Lean In? http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/06/03/318458538/do-female-named-hurricanes-need-to-lean-in
- http://bernicesandler.com/id44.htm
"Too Strong for a Woman"--The Five Words That Created
Title IX
- https://newrepublic.com/article/146987/government-finally-cracking-sexual-harassers-science
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/thandie-newton-more-black-women-movies-need-intersectionality-feminism
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587671849/a-new-survey-finds-eighty-percent-of-women-have-experienced-sexual-harassment
- https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/harassed-hospitals-operating-rooms-women-medicine-await-their-metoo-moment-n846031
- https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/10/30/499243803/even-in-a-virtual-world-the-harsh-reality-of-sexual-harassment-persists
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39003904
Hidden Figures: How Nasa hired its first black women
'computers'
- Intimate
Partner
Violence
- Black Feminism
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/271647.php
The size of the average male reproductive organ
according to research
- https://nowthisnews.com/videos/her/male-professor-likens-period-cramps-to-heart-attacks
HE: Health / Food
- http://www.npr.org/2016/01/02/461735226/lead-poisoning-in-michigan-highlights-weakened-water-systems-nationwide
- Middle-Aged
Whites and Rising Mortality
- Life
Expectancy: Canada versus the U.S.
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/04/460620606/lack-of-deep-sleep-may-set-the-stage-for-alzheimers
- https://www.cornucopia.org/scorecard/eggs/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/15/571187112/trump-administration-moves-to-kill-rules-for-organic-eggs
- Profits
versus Clean Water (Coal mining)
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/11/14/363835596/big-mayo-vs-little-mayo-which-brand-has-egg-on-its-face
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/11/462375558/our-favorite-banana-may-be-doomed-can-new-varieties-replace-it
- http://www.npr.org/2016/01/01/461714334/-concussion-forces-those-who-play-football-to-contemplate-safety-risks
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/03/472684953/is-there-wood-pulp-in-that-parmesan-how-scientists-sniff-out-food-fraud
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/17/498232752/forget-tomayto-tomahto-the-real-debate-is-should-it-be-refrigerated
- Processed
meats do cause cancer - WHO
- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048k51z
(Finding Rest in the Modern World)
- Could 'pink slime' be rebranded? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17615456
- When did potatoes become unpopular? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15377913
- Congress Pushes Back On Healthier School
Lunches http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=142332405
- U.S. Opts Not to Ban BPA in Canned Foods http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-opts-not-to-ban-bpa-in-can
- Genetically Modified Fish
- How Your Love of Burgers May Be Helping To Drive
Wildlife Extinct http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/21/291495523/how-your-love-of-burgers-may-be-helping-to-drive-wildlife-extinct
- Why 500 Million U.S. Seafood Meals Get Dumped in the
Sea http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/21/292094853/why-500-million-u-s-seafood-meals-get-dumped-in-the-sea
- Tainted Rice Part of China's Pollution Problem
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/globalhealth/july-dec11/china_11-29.html
- Jamie Oliver leads drive to buy misshapen fruit and
vegetables http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/01/jamie-oliver-leads-drive-to-buy-misshapen-fruit-and-vegetables
- How Safe Is Your Ground Beef? http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/how-safe-is-your-ground-beef
- Counterfeit drugs targeted by technology in
India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15208595
- Counterfeit Medicine http://www.fda.gov/
- What's happened to Thalidomide babies? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15536544
- Is Top-Dollar Treatment Getting Americans the Best
Health Care in the World? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/11/american-health-care-in-four-graphics.html
- California Hospital Chain Eyed for Possibly Bilking
Medicare for Millions http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec11/medicare_12-19.html
- Norovirus: Far More Likely to Come from Restaurant
than Cruise ship http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318524155/norovirus-far-more-likely-to-come-from-restaurant-than-cruise-ship
- Guatemalans 'died' in 1940s US syphilis study http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14712089
- https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants
HI: History—General
- *Deep
History: Human Origins
- *World
History: History of Paper
- http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/17/whats-behind-spains-offer-of-citizenship-to-jews.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/the-words-that-killed-medieval-jews.html
- Spanish
Inquisition—Torture
- http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/spanish-inquisition.htm
[*]
- New
human-like species discovered in S Africa
- MLK
visits India
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38130244
(Oskar Groening conviction) [*]
- http://online.wsj.com/ww1/
(100 Years: Legacies of the Lasting Impact of World
War I)
- Ancient 'paint factory' unearthed http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15257259
- Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15345511
- Nazi-looted Klimt 'to be returned to owner's
grandson' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13156213
- France, Britain Remember End to Bloody World War http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/11/france-britain-remember-end-to-bloody-world-war.html
- Movie Review: Buried Prayers http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/movies/buried-prayers-a-documentary-by-steven-meyer-review.html
- 'Emancipating Lincoln': A Pragmatic Proclamation http://www.npr.org/2012/03/14/148520024/emancipating-lincoln-a-pragmatic-proclamation
- Who, What, Why: How many soldiers died in the US
Civil War? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17604991
- Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21631427
- North Korea--Never at Peace http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/22033825
- http://cherwell.org/2017/12/23/churchill-and-india/
The shameful truth about Churchill
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/10/in-winston-churchill-hollywood-rewards-a-mass-murderer/
IM: Immigrants/
Refugees/ Undocumented Workers
- Child
Migrants: The Horrors of their Experiences
- How Would Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have
Affected His Own Team? https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/18/donald-trump-immigration-chain-migration-dan-scavino-tomi-lahren-216332
- Facts
about
Immigrants in the U.S.
- https://www.jta.org/2018/01/22/news-opinion/united-states/a-jewish-journalist-is-confronting-trumps-immigration-advisers-with-their-own-immigrant-histories
- Illegal
Irish Immigrants
- Immigration
and Employment in the U.S.: Facts versus Myths
- Looking
for Workers in Agriculture
- Immigration
and Employment in the U.S.: Facts versus Myths
- How-did-we-get-to-11-million-unauthorized-immigrants
- http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/02/436905795/why-are-migrants-surging-into-europe-now
IN: International News
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37172002
(Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers
for a living)
- http://www.redressonline.com/2012/08/palestinian-history-on-a-billboard-vs-israeli-fanaticism-on-the-ground/
[*]
- http://www.redressonline.com/2016/06/watch-the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-israels-public-relations-war-in-the-united-states/
[*]
- The
Politics of U.S. Foreign Aid
- http://www.npr.org/2016/05/13/477974553/lawrence-in-arabia-author-examines-lasting-impact-of-sykes-picot-agreement
- China
media denounce US warship in South China Sea
- Why
is the South China Sea contentious?
- http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-health/508859/
[*]
- http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38654176
/ All aboard the China-to-London freight train
- The 38-year connection between Irish republicans and
Gaddafi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12539372
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37281821
(Obama calls off meeting with Philippine leader after
'whore' jibe)
- Journalist Goes Undercover to Report on Syrian
Dissidents http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec11/syria_11-08.html
- The
Paris Attacks Were Not About Freedom of Expression
(About the Attack on French Cartoonists)
- Freedom
Rider: Charlie Hebdo: “Je Suis White People"
(About the Attack on French Cartoonists)
- The
Abuse of Satire (About the Attack on French
Cartoonists)
- 'Demolishing Homes, Demolishing Peace' http://www.icahd.org/?p=8267
- For Complainers, A Stint In China's 'Black Jails' http://www.npr.org/2012/11/01/163949720/for-complainers-a-stint-in-chinas-black-jails
- June 4: The Day that Defines, and Still Haunts China
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/06/03/318454674/june-4-the-day-that-defines-and-still-haunts-china
- The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren’t
telling this week http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-true-gaza-backstory-that-the-israelis-arent-telling-this-week-9596120.html
- Turkey's Bosphorus tunnel to open sub-sea Asia
link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24721779
- Istanbul's underwater Bosphorus rail tunnel opens to
delight and foreboding http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/istanbul-underwater-bosphorus-rail-tunnel-european-asian-earthquake
- Czech deer still avoid Iron Curtain http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27129727
LA: Labor and
Exploitation
- Child
Labor Abuse in Israel
- Abuse
of Female Migrant Labor in the Middle East
- Migrant
Worker Abuse in the Middle East
- Abuse
of Migrant Workers in Thailand
- Slave
Labor and the Seafood Industry in Asia
- Eating
Out: The Human Costs of Cheap Labor in U.S.
Restaurants
LW: Law/ Prisons/
Policing
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/14/video-shows-police-tackling-and-beating-a-black-man-suspected-of-stealing-a-car-it-was-his/
Video shows police tackling and beating a black man
suspected of stealing a car. It was his.
- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/01/11/behind-the-badge/
Behind
the Badge: Amid protests and calls for reform, how
police view their jobs, key issues and recent fatal
encounters between blacks and police
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/23/475369524/awoken-by-n-y-cop-shooting-asian-american-activists-chart-way-forward
- http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/474522426/parsing-the-lasting-legacy-of-clarence-thomas-confirmation-fight
[*]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/us/chicago-police-dept-plagued-by-systemic-racism-task-force-finds.html
- Daniel Shaver begged officers not to shoot him. (a)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/a-police-killing-without-a-hint-of-racism/546983/
(b) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/footage-of-a-police-killing-that-jurors-didnt-punish/547868/
- Cycle
of Injustice in New York
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/us/supreme-court-rules-in-samantha-elauf-abercrombie-fitch-case.html
(Hijab and the Supreme Court)
- https://www.nature.com/news/evidence-based-justice-corrupted-memory-1.13543
- The
Supreme Court and Class Warfare
- http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/09/438581667/report-judges-have-too-much-control-in-public-defense-system
- https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/the-presence-of-justice/#deluxe-body
- Ex-Oklahoma
deputy Robert Bates guilty of killing unarmed
suspect
- Jury
finds white Oklahoma cop not guilty in shooting of
unarmed black man
- A
white security officer told police he was shot by a
black man. Turns out, he’d shot himself, police say.
- Man
'wrongly' jailed for decades for killing UK tourist
- http://www.twcnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2016/03/3/india-cummings--erie-county-holding-center--buffalo--matthew-albert.html
See also:
- http://buffalochronicle.com/2016/03/03/something-demonic-is-happening-in-buffalos-county-jail/
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37038421
(US government blasts Baltimore police over race)
- US court case reveals CIA rendition details http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14745941
- What happened in Europe's secret CIA prisons? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-1146936
- CIA prisons in Hungary
and Poland
- The nature of President Obama's rendition program http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14862161
- 'Kill team' leader Calvin Gibbs tried for Afghan
deaths http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15499132
- 'Kill team' leader Calvin Gibbs guilty of murder http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15687522
- Federal Appeals Court Rules Against GPS Tracking http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/33/3333.asp
- Supreme Court Hears Landmark GPS Tracking Case http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec11/scotus_11-08.html
- http://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149866209/high-court-supports-strip-searches-for-minor-offenders
- The Fight to Prove an Innocent Man Was Executedhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june12/deathpenalty_05-24.htm
- http://www.npr.org/2012/05/22/153308670/exoneration-list-shows-patterns-in-false-convictions
- Bike Path Rapist (Buffalo)http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/article/bike-path-rapist-and-murderer-altemio-sanchez/index.html
- James Meredith 'still at war' 50 years after ending
segregation on Mississippi campus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19734976
- Prism and privacy: What could they know about
me? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22853432
- Herman Wallace ordered released after 41 years in
solitary http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24359235
- Forty years in solitary confinement and counting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17564805
- Age Discrimination Takes Its
Toll
- Study: Record
number of US convicts cleared in 2013
- The Extreme
Partisanship of John Roberts's Supreme Court
(The Myth of an Impartial Court: The U.S. Supreme
Court and the Politics of Ideology)
- Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and sexual
harassment http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15471756
- Clarence Thomas's wife asks Anita Hill for an
apology over voicemail http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/oct/20/ginni-thomas-apology-anita-hill-voicemail-clarence-thomas
- Clarence Thomas's conservatism: the first 20 years http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/13/clarence-thomas-conservatism-20-years
- Sweet Virginia: The wife of Justice Clarence Thomas
is a Tea Party activist. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/10/12/sweet-virginia.html
- After Christopher Dorner, What Next for the
LAPD? http://nation.time.com/2013/02/14/after-christopher-dorner-what-next-for-the-lapd/
- New Orleans police go on trial over Katrina shooting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13938349
- Former policemen in Katrina bridge shootings jailed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17616965
- Repeated Gaffes Ultimately Halted Ex-Cop’s Rampage http://nation.time.com/2013/02/13/sheriff-dorner-cabin-not-purposely-burned-in-firefight/
- Weighing Race and Hate in a Mississippi
Killing http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/us/23jackson.html
Alternative link
to this story
- Girl Gets Beaten by Police for Accidentally Knocking
a Potted Plant Off Her Windowsill http://boycewatkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/girl-gets-beaten-by-police-for-accidentally-knocking-a-potted-plant-off-her-windowsill/
- Cops Beat Girl Because Plant Blew Away - Nicole Boyd
- Philadelphia - August 2011 http://youtu.be/gN6rggavdho
- Obama urges 'calm reflection' after Zimmerman
verdict http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23309534
- 'Trayvon Martin could have been me' - Barack Obama http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23382880
- Who are Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17682245
- The 6 Decisions That Could Have Saved Trayvon
Martin's Life http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/6-decisions-trayvon_n_3600690.html
- Outrage, protests grow over shooting of unarmed
Florida teen http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/21/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html
- Ex-officer charged in US shooting http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7830077.stm
- Violence after California police shooting trial
verdict http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10565543
- Fruitvale Station (review of docudrama film based on
the California police shooting) http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fruitvale-station-2013
- Renisha McBride Rally Calls For Justice After
Homeowner Claims Shooting Was Accidental http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/renisha-mcbride-rally-shooting-accidental_n_4235468.html
- The Jordan Davis
killing
- Living while Black in the
Good Ole U.S.
- The Martin
Brown Killing: Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard
for Whites to Understand Ferguson (race and
social networks)
- The seven racist e-mails the Justice Department
highlighted in its report on Ferguson police http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/04/the-seven-racist-e-mails-the-justice-department-highlighted-in-its-report-on-ferguson-police/
- For 22
Years, Caught in a Murder Case’s Tangled Web
(wrongful conviction)
- https://www.economist.com/news/international/21738349-even-though-they-are-ineffective-some-countries-killer-cops-are-celebrated
MI: Miscellaneous
Topics
- https://worldbicyclerelief.org/en/
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/28/us-guns-mass-shootings-hoax-conspiracy-theories
- https://kottke.org/18/01/how-haiti-became-poor
- A
Perilous Ride to a Remote Valley
- http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/08/sage-publications-busts-peer-review-and-citation-ring-60-papers-retracted/
- After
learning she was stolen at birth, teen faces tough
choice
- India's switched-at-birth babies who refused to swap
back http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42743982
- Russian girls swapped at birth win compensation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15521803
- Switched at birth, then meeting aged 12 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15432846
- Switched At Birth http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/360/switched-at-birth
- The
Psychology of Poverty and the "Scarcity Trap"
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/what-crime-most-changed-the-course-of-history/537924/
- http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/03/how-big-average-penis
[*]
- Americans Don't Really Understand Gun Violence: Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/guns-nonfatal-shooting-newtown-las-vegas/548372/
- Syria:
The story of the conflict
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37461048
(Obama opens African-American museum in Washington DC)
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37454527
(A 'living building' for the black American
experience)
- http://www.npr.org/2015/11/15/456121870/grief-knows-no-native-tongue-but-we-must-listen-wherever-it-speaks
- http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/10-schools-of-philosophy-and-why-you-should-know-them
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hug-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-combat-loneliness-promote-social-health1/
- The
Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge
- Following
orders 'distances us' from our own actions
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/15/loneliness-heightened-by-social-media-jo-coxs-sister-says
- Alienation:
Opiod Addiction in the U.S.
- Do
you Have an Idea to Help Fix the World?
- Deaths
from Child Abuse in the U.S.
- A belated thank you to African Americans http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-american-experience-20170402-story.html
- Does Crime Drop When Immigrants Move In? http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173642807/does-crime-drop-when-immigrants-move-in
- Sky Walking: Raising Steel, A Mohawk Ironworker
Keeps Tradition Alive http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/mar/19/sky-walking-raising-steel-mohawk-ironworker-keeps-tradition-alive/
- America's Worst Charities http://cironline.org/americasworstcharities
- Tips are not optional, they are how waiters get paid
in America http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-applebees-waitress-needs-tips
- America's child death shame http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15288865
- 16-Year-Old Survives In Wheel Well o*f Maui Flight http://www.npr.org/2014/04/21/305461733/16-year-old-survives-in-wheel-well-of-maui-flight
- Woman posts about ‘Happy’ song on Facebook seconds
before fatal Business 85 crash http://myfox8.com/2014/04/25/woman-posted-to-facebook-seconds-before-fatal-business-85-crash/
- Police: Father charged in toddler’s death was
sexting while the boy died in his hot SUV http://kfor.com/2014/07/03/police-father-charged-in-toddlers-death-was-sexting-while-the-boy-died-in-his-hot-suv/
- Nobody Cares How Awesome You Are at Your Job http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-23/nobody-cares-how-awesome-you-are-at-your-job
- How facial features drive our first impressions http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28512781
- *After learning she was stolen at birth, teen faces
tough choice http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-learning-she-was-stolen-at-birth-teenager-faces-tough-choice
- https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/27-most-common-job-interview-questions-and-answers.html
- https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/15-favorite-interview-questions-to-completely-disarm-job-candidates-in-a-really-good-way.html
- *http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/irish-slaves-myth.html
- https://lifehacker.com/what-research-says-happiness-really-is-1730503184
- https://lifehacker.com/this-is-how-many-friends-you-need-to-be-happy-1823425885
- https://www.livestrong.com/sscat/cold-and-flu/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2017/10/20/what-should-you-major-in-if-you-want-to-be-a-billionaire/
What Should You Major In If You Want To Be A
Billionaire?
- https://www.theladders.com/career-advice
MU: Music
- http://www.npr.org/2016/10/17/497797809/from-composer-vangelis-a-true-story-set-in-outer-space
[*]
- http://sfjazz.blogspot.com/2015/09/east-meets-west-indian-classical-music.html
- Will the creator of modern music please stand up?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/apr/16/popandrock
- Changing the World: Rock 'n' Roll Culture and
Ideology http://www.dntownsend.com/Site/Rock/1orig.htm
- *Music
and Deep History: Vangelis and the Rosetta Mission
- (a) Misogyny in Music
- (b) Misogyny in Music
- http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2018/02/living-in-f-e-a-r-a-discussion-with-marillions-steve-rothery
- https://youtu.be/hQx2cXZk5o0
Opera singers sing for schoolchildren at lunch!
- https://youtu.be/TRktavB7KRQ
Flashmob Nürnberg 2014 - Ode an die Freude
- https://youtu.be/peidgSY8A50
The Washington Post March United States Army
Field Band
- https://youtu.be/Tx1nUTwngvg
Moon River - The Jazz Ambassadors
- https://youtu.be/DgULT3Lc1wQ
First Time In India..!! Instrumental FlashMob
-Abhijith P S Nair &Band feat. Fahad Fasil
(A.R.Rahman)
- https://youtu.be/Y8VgnWV6RtU
NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF KENYA - FLASH MOB
(VILLAGE MARKET, NAIROBI))
- https://youtu.be/vOYFd9N9nLo FLASH MOB
AEROPORTO FALCONE E BORSELLINO
PO: Politics
- http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/trump-university-financial-elder-abuse-charges/
- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-kkk-connection-dad-klan-riot-arrest-article-1.2546656
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/what-donald-trump-doesnt-seem-to-understand-about-the-kkk/
- http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/03/437212553/ben-carson-the-other-republican-outsider-on-the-rise
- http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37889032
- http://www.npr.org/2017/01/20/510629447/watch-live-president-trumps-inauguration-ceremony
/Trump's Inaugural Address, Annotated
- http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510491692/the-america-donald-trump-is-inheriting-by-the-numbers
- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/aftermath-sixteen-writers-on-trumps-america
- http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/499274789/rigging-an-election-its-not-so-easy-voting-law-expert-says
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16929764/how-democracies-die-trump-book-levitsky-ziblatt
- http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/16/439574726/how-asian-american-voters-went-from-republican-to-democratic
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/15/us-presidents-listed#data
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
- Why Trump Tweets (And Why We Listen) https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/donald-trump-twitter-addiction-216530
- http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/barack-obama-doris-kearns-goodwin-interview
- http://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/493763493/charts-see-how-quickly-white-non-college-voters-have-fled-the-democratic-party
- http://www.npr.org/2016/04/19/474835424/sanders-has-been-losing-in-states-where-income-inequality-is-worse
- ‘Trump
Revealed’: The reporting archive (About book
on Trump—sources)
- http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497799354/a-list-of-donald-trumps-accusers-of-inappropriate-sexual-conduct
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-supporters-for-intolerance.html
- https://monthlyreview.org/2017/04/01/neofascism-in-the-white-house/
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37345444
(US approves record $38bn Israel military aid deal)
- Member of Congressional Black Caucus: Trump Has
Brought Normalized Racism To White House https://www.npr.org/2018/01/20/579443004/member-of-congressional-black-caucus-trump-has-brought-normalized-racism-to-whit
- Measuring
Donald Trump’s Supporters for Intolerance
- Make
America Hate Again
- Is
Donald Trump a Racist?
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ivanka-trumps-best-selling-fashion-line-is-manufactured-in-china-and-vietnam-a7153376.html
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-charts-explain-why-some-american-families-are-getting-far-richer-than-others-2017-10-05
- The
Economist Warns about the Serious Dangers Posed by
Trump's Irrational Economics
- Supporters of Trump by Race/Gender https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-voters-abandoning-donald-trump/550247/
- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-of-trumps-supporters-really-are-deplorable/
- http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/15/trump-remakes-judiciary
- A running list of what the Republican-dominated
federal government is up to. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pggbpz/all-the-laws-and-executive-orders-trump-has-signed-so-far
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/muslim-jewish-alliance-after-trump.html
(Jews, Muslims, and Trumpism)
- Dr. Boyce: Why I Won’t Be Attending the MLK
Memorial Dedication Ceremony http://yourblackworld.com/2011/08/25/why-i-wont-be-attending-the-mlk-memorial-dedication-cermony/
- https://www.salon.com/2018/03/15/hillary-clinton-was-right-the-parts-of-america-that-support-trump-are-stuck-in-the-past/
- https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/
- https://www.economist.com/news/china/21737543-unhappiness-china-palpable-xi-jinping-decides-abolish-presidential-term-limits
RA: Race/ Ethnicity/
Right Wing Extremism
- Doctor's
Earnings and Race
- Trump’s rhetoric is having a devastating impact on
Muslim and South Asian communities https://thinkprogress.org/trump-muslim-south-asian-8302651fb46f/
- Four
Types of Hate Crimes
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/americas-forgotten-mass-lynching-when-237-people-were-murdered-in-arkansas
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/09/slavery-and-the-jews/376462/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/03/im-the-descendant-of-a-founding-father-and-i-have-two-black-daughters-and-i-am-racist/
- Fixing
Racial Inequities in the Workplace
- https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-inside-google/
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/09/08/437579834/mass-deportation-may-sound-unlikely-but-its-happened-before
[*]
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/10/23/498734157/dreadlocks-decision-raises-another-question-what-is-race
- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/06/in-new-york-heroes-in-hijabs-face-trump-loving-haters.html
(The new face of hate)
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html
(Hiding the neo-Nazi symbols and language behind new
ones)
- https://www.lifeafterhate.org/
- Lynching
in the U.S. Information Project
- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/on-views-of-race-and-inequality-blacks-and-whites-are-worlds-apart/
On
Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are
Worlds Apart
- http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/racial-climate-at-mu-a-timeline-of-incidents-to-date/article_0c96f986-84c6-11e5-a38f-2bd0aab0bf74.html
- Crossing
the Road while Black
- http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2017/11/confidential-surveilling-black-lives-matter-171114195328300.html
- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/color-blindness-is-counterproductive/405037/
[*]
- Disrespectful: We just can’t take MLK’s family
stumping for Trump anymore; somebody, make it stop.
https://thegrio.com/2018/01/15/mlk-family-trump-stop/
- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/documents-show-monitoring-black-lives-matter-171128110538134.html
- The Counted: People Killed by Police in the U.S.
Database https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
- 23. http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461/race-social-construct-origins-census
- http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/16/414863516/-i-identify-as-black-rachel-dolezal-says-in-tv-interview
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/04/416827667/so-you-flunked-a-racism-test-now-what
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/09/01/434896292/how-startups-are-using-tech-to-mitigate-workplace-bias
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122416323
(Black Job-Seekers Hide Race for Corporate America)
- 'We Still Live Here' Details Effort to Restore
Wampanoag Language http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec11/efp_11-10.html
- https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/implicit-racial-bias-and-anatomy-institutional-racism
- 'It's
part of who I am': Slave descendants win equal
rights from Cherokee Nation
- Cherokee
Freedmen overjoyed by federal court ruling
granting tribal citizenship
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/are-jews-white/509453/
- Cherokee Kick Descendants of Black Freedmen Out of
the Nation http://yourblackworld.com/2011/08/26/cherokee-kick-black-freedmen-out-of-the-nation/
- Native Americans Were Kept as
Slaves, Too
- California Slaughter: The
State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans
- http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
(Race: The Power of an Illusion)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/i-was-racially-profiled-in-my-own-driveway/360615/
- http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
(Race: The Power of an Illusion)
- 633: Our Town - Part Two Dec 15, 2017 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/633/our-town-part-two
- http://www.npr.org/2015/05/17/407478606/often-employees-rarely-ceos-challenges-asian-americans-face-in-tech
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/06/black-grad-student-on-hunger-strike-in-mo-after-swastika-drawn-with-human-feces/
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/21/473997323/racial-awakening-pride-and-fear-one-latino-perspective-on-the-obama-effect
- http://www.npr.org/2015/05/06/404432206/six-words-my-name-is-jamaal-im-white
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/microaggressions-matter/406090/
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2014/12/12/white-people-have-13-dollars-for-every-dollar-held-by-black-americans/
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/17/college-is-not-the-great-equalizer-for-black-and-hispanic-graduates/
[*]
- The
Driving Life and Death of Philando Castile
- Attack
on family in Compton latest incident in wave of
[Latina/o] anti-black violence
- Poverty
and Income among Blacks and Whites in the U.S.
[*]
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/13/477803909/its-gotten-a-lot-harder-to-act-like-whiteness-doesnt-shape-our-politics
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/beatrizserranomolina/sexist-microagressions-in-relationships?utm_term=.oi3AYQ9XR#.lpy2BKvD5
- http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis?utm_term=.bteOYkXN6#.pjjQ3WX87
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-everyday-life/201010/racial-microaggressions-in-everyday-life
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-everyday-life/201011/microaggressions-more-just-race
- http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/15/jalen-ross/black-name-resume-50-percent-less-likely-get-respo/
[*]
- Barbarism
and the Right-Wing Vision of a New United States
(Objectifying subjective interests)
- The
Southern Strategy, Race, and "Trumpism"
- Survey:
class, racism, and the U.S. election
(make sure you also see the video embedded in this
item) Theorizing
the Media
- *Ultra-conservatism
and
the decline of democracy around the world
- The
Roots of Islamophobia
- Proliferation
of U.S. Hate Groups
- Aryan Brotherhood of Texas: How did neo-Nazi
prison gangs become so powerful? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22019433
- http://www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide
- White
Supremacist Tries to Make Amends
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzgwa9/native-americans-are-pissed-off-at-trumps-move-to-slash-public-land
- The Worst President in U.S. History? http://washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/president-barack-obama-a-ray
- Alabama Racist Language Measure Draws Unexpected
Foes http://www.npr.org/2012/11/02/164107184/ala-racist-language-measure-draws-unexpected-foes
- Mississippi governor: wedding ban on black couple
was 'unfortunate' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/mississippi-governor-wedding-ban-unfortunate
- Mississippi church apologizes for barring black
wedding http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57487511/miss-church-apologizes-for-barring-black-wedding/
- Poland's
Senate passes controversial Holocaust bill
- Return to Auschwitz: How Israel keeps Holocaust
memories alive http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22892783
- Envoy: 'German Jews feel unsafe' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6072034.stm
- Kansas shooting: US will seek hate crime charges
(terrorism against a Jewish community) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27025406
- Increased Hostility against Jews and Roma In
Hungary http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/09/287342069/increased-hostility-against-jews-and-roma-in-hungary
- The U.S. Has Blocked Immigrants From Coming In
Before -- This Is What Happened http://www.viralnova.com/holocaust-facts/
- Evidence of Racial, Gender Biases Found in Faculty
Mentoring http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring
- Race Alone Doesn't Explain Hatred of Obama, But
It's Part of the Mix http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/13/311908835/race-alone-doesnt-explain-hatred-of-obama-but-its-part-of-the-mix
- Descendants of Chinese Laborers Reclaim Railroad's
History http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/10/311157404/descendants-of-chinese-laborers-reclaim-railroads-history
- Racism against Asians persists in military, 8
mates charged after recent suicide http://www.telegram.com/article/20120219/NEWS/120219555/0
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/opinion/there-ought-to-be-a-law-against-hate.html
- https://www.apnews.com/ae4b40a720b74ad8a9b0bfe65f7a9c29
Kept out: How banks block people of color from
home-ownership
- http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
Race: The Power of an Illusion
- https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory1os2xmaster/chapter/wealth-and-culture-in-the-south/
- http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/19/us/high-court-holds-1866-race-bias-law-is-a-broader-tool.html
- https://civilrights.org/about-us/coalition-members-leadership-conference-civil-human-rights/
Civil Society
- http://www.naacpldf.org/
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- https://www.npr.org/2016/06/05/480861394/muslims-are-just-the-latest-in-history-of-scapegoats-author-says
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessionss-move-to-take-on-affirmative-action-energizes-trumps-base/2017/08/02/771285b4-779f-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html
- 21 Things You can't do
while You are Black
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-think-about-implicit-bias/
RI: Race/Ethnicity
—International
- https://thinkprogress.org/60000-people-march-in-massive-nazi-rally-in-poland-afd1cb406363/
- http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/11/world/thai-pirates-continuing-brutal-attacks-on-vietnamese-boat-people.html
- http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42911468/china-police-state-fear-and-resentment
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34615972
<--About burakumin
- http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201205110074
<--About Okinawans
- http://thebulletin.brandtschool.de/latin-american-policy-series-3-racism-and-responses-to-racism-in-latin-america/
- The
Repugnant Human Traffickers, the Corrupt
Government Officials, the Buddhists, and the
Persecution of the Rohingya in Burma <--
also watch the 45 minute documentary
- What is Afro-Latin America? http://www.aaihs.org/what-is-afro-latin-america/
- Brazil
investigates reports of massacre among Amazonian
tribe by gold miners
- Is this Genocide https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/genocide-myanmar-rohingya-bangladesh.html
- The
Burmese Persecution of the Rohingya
- Chinese
Persecution of the Uighurs (Ban on Names)
- Who
are the Rohingya Muslims? OR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/rohingya-muslims/
- Miners
who boasted about killing uncontacted Amazon tribe
members now under investigation
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35981727
(Black Mexicans 'erased from history')
- Was
Mahatma Gandhi a racist?
- Ramachandra
Guha on why Gandhi remains globally relevant
- Bosnia-Hercegovina marks 20th anniversary of war http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17636640
- Still scarred and divided, Bosnia mourns the dead
20 years on http://www.itv.com/news/2012-04-06/bosnia-mourns-the-dead-20-years-since-war-began/
- Bosnians mark 20 years since war began http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2012/04/201246111325714937.html
- Bosnia-Hercegovina timeline http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1066981.stm
- Germany
migrant shelter fire 'cheered by onlookers'
- Bus taunts that sparked Australian racism debate http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21468892
- Euro 2012 (race and soccer) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18192375
- New film uncovers racism in Germany http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8347040.stm
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/yazidis-islamic-state-rape-genocide.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/asia/china-tibet/index.html
- The
U.S. and Uighurs
- China
and the Uighurs
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/28/a-summer-vacation-in-chinas-muslim-gulag/
A Summer Vacation in China’s Muslim Gulag
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39011298
Paris unrest: Banlieue youths see French state as
the enemy
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/20/south-africa-xenophobic-violence-migrant-workers-apartheid
- https://theconversation.com/whiteness-characterises-higher-education-institutions-so-why-are-we-surprised-by-racism-93147
RE: Religion
- https://www.salon.com/2017/11/30/trumps-muslim-bashing-channeled-a-worldwide-current-of-hate/l
- http://pluralism.org/religions/islam/islam-in-america/african-american-islam-reformed-black-muslims-and-the-universal-ummah/
- African Muslims in Early America https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/collection/african-muslims-early-america
- African American Islam http://religion.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-9
- An American Face of Islam http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11265593
- Heart and Soul: Muslims in the USA http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jszv5
- Profile: Dove World Outreach Center [Qur'an
Burning] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11226352
- Heart and Soul: God in China [Christianity] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00knrxx
- BBC Profiles of World's Religions http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
- Bigotry against Jews and Muslims on the rise, says
US http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22601881
- Chapel Hill Muslim murders: Craig Hicks is
indicted http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31499161
SA: Space Exploration
- *Deep
History: The Rosetta Mission
- Voyager
and the Golden Record (NPR)
- The
Golden Record (Contents) NASA/JPL
- Mars One
project
SP: Sports
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/16/black-athletes-wealthiest-conferences-continue-graduate-low-rates
- Black
Males, Athletes and Academic Achievement
- http://time.com/4110443/college-football-race-problem/
- http://thesportdigest.com/archive/article/triple-tragedy-black-student-athlete
- http://hogg.utexas.edu/black-student-athlete-mental-health
(Also listen to the podcast)
- https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/ezexjp/four-years-a-student-athlete-the-racial-injustice-of-big-time-college-sports
- https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/kbvvjx/how-the-ncaa-scams-taxpayers-for-welfare-money
- https://www.athleticbusiness.com/People/academics-confront-the-exploitation-of-african-american-male-athletes.html
- http://www.aframnews.com/the-mis-education-of-the-black-student-athlete/
- Theorizing
on the Stereotyping of Black Male Student-Athletes
TE:
Technology
- http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/24/news/companies/burger-king-net-neutrality-ad/index.html
- https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/01/net-neutrality-faq-title-i-title-ii-2017/
- https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-plan-to-kill-net-neutrality-rules-could-hurt-students/
- 'The Single
Most Valuable Document in the History of the
World Wide Web' (The World Wide Web: A Gift to
Humanity by its Inventors)
- Rare earths:
Neither rare, nor earths http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26687605
- For The
Children's Sake, Put Down That Smartphone http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/21/304196338/for-the-childrens-sake-put-down-that-smartphone
- Tesla and the
lone inventor myth http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130322-tesla-and-the-lone-inventor-myth
- The myth of the
lone genius http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120316-the-myth-of-the-lone-genius
- Net Neutrality:
What You Need to Know Now http://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now
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