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Rationale: Being Black Is An Extreme Sport 

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Rationale: Being Black Is An Extreme Sport 

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In this blog, Denene explains the way she felt growing up as a news reporter and how she wanted to make a change. She states, " The whole reason I became a journalist was to shine a light on the beauty and complexity of us—to write about what I know to be true about my people." Denene grew up in a time where it was always advertised that being black was a negative thing and she knew that she wanted to change the way people thought about black people. Denene's experiences she had made her want to make a change and that definitely shaped her into a new person and I'm sure it shaped many others too. It shaped her into a strong woman who wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed and educate people on what she knew they should be educated about. Starr, in The Hate U Give, did the same. She was sick of being treated unfairly and having to hide her emotions so she raised her voice and stood up for what she believed in.

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Rationale: All American (sorry for bad audio this was the only one of this clip I could find)

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Rationale: All American (sorry for bad audio this was the only one of this clip I could find)

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In this scene, you can see Spencer and all his friends getting some frozen yogurt from the new place in Crenshaw. They're all being perfectly normal until the owner gets upset with them and tells them all to leave. Many times black people will be racially profiled and experience times like this. Olivia (The girl with the black jacket on) lives in Beverly Hill and doesn't often get racially profiled. Later on, in the show, Olivia explains on her podcast how that one moment in Crenshaw really changed the way she felt about being black. She explains how black people can't really do anything while having some sort of fear or somehow doing something wrong in other people's minds. I think this clip is a great example of how small experiences like this can really change someone the way it did for Olivia. In Starrs situation, the death of Khalil inspired her to stand up and be an activist and you can see Olivia do the same.

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All American S2 E9 Racist Profiling Against Spencer And His Group

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Rationale: How to raise a black son in America 

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Rationale: How to raise a black son in America 

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Clint smith talks about his experiences as a child and the things his parents often said to him. He states "I think of how hard it must have been, how profoundly unfair it must have felt for them to feel like they had to strip away parts of my childhood just so I could come home at night." He goes on and talks about one time he and his friends were out at night playing with water guns until his dad pulls him aside and says "You can't act the same as you'r white friends." This situation reminds me a lot about The Hate U Give and how police can assume stuff so easily. Kahlil had a brush in his hand and got shot because the officer thought it was a gun and in Clint's situation, his dad was nervous for him to have a water gun in his hand because police could assume it's a real gun. This is a great representation as to how black people have to shape or go about there lives so differently than white people do just to stay safe or keep out of trouble.

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TedTalk: How to raise a black son in America

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TedTalk: How to raise a black son in America

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Clint Smith: How to raise a Black son in America

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As kids, we all get advice from parents and teachers that seems strange, even confusing. This was crystallized one night for a young Clint Smith, who was playing with water guns in a dark parking lot with his white friends. In a heartfelt piece, the poet paints the scene of his father's furious and fearful response.

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Rationale: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.

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Rationale: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.

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This article talks about redlining in the 1930s. It states " The “redlined” areas were the ones local lenders discounted as credit risks, in large part because of the residents’ racial and ethnic demographics." It also states, "But 50 years after that law passed, the lingering effects of redlining are clear, with the pattern of economic and racial residential segregation still evident in many U.S. cities." This shows how because of something that happened almost 100 years ago, the effects of redlining are still relevant today and can affect where someone lives and how good of a school they go to. Living in a bad part of town or going to a not so fortunate school can for sure shape the way someone is. In The Hate U Give, Starr and her family had to move schools because the public schools where she lived weren't very good and had lots of trouble.

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Article: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.

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Article: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.

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Baltimore rowhouses in 1938. (John Vachon/Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress)

Racial discrimination in mortgage lending in the 1930s shaped the demographic and wealth patterns of American communities today, a new study shows, with 3 out of 4 neighborhoods "redlined" on government maps 80 years ago continuing to struggle economically .

The study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, released Wednesday, shows that the vast majority of neighborhoods marked "hazardous" in red ink on maps drawn by the federal Home Owners' Loan Corp. from 1935 to 1939 are today much more likely than other areas to comprise lower-income, minority residents.

"It's as if some of these places have been trapped in the past, locking neighborhoods into concentrated poverty," said Jason Richardson, director of research at the NCRC, a consumer advocacy group.

The Senate rolls back rules meant to root out discrimination by mortgage lenders

Researchers compared the HOLC maps, the most comprehensive documentation of discriminatory lending practices, with modern-day census data to determine how much neighborhood demographics have changed in 80 years. The findings have implications for today's po litical debates over housing, banking and financial regulation, as well as civil rights, as Congress seeks to weaken the government's ability to enforce fair-lending requirements. Policies that influence access to capital and credit have long-lasting effects on residential patterns, neighborhoods' economic health and household accumulation of wealth, the report said.

In the 1930s, government surveyors graded neighborhoods in 239 cities, color-coding them green for "best," blue for "still desirable," yellow for "definitely declining" and red for "hazardous." The "redlined" areas were the ones local lenders discounted as credit risks, in large part because of the residents' racial and ethnic demographics. They also took into account local amenities and home prices.

Neighborhoods that were predominantly made up of African Americans, as well as Catholics, Jews and immigrants from Asia and southern Europe, were deemed undesirable. "Anyone who was not northern-European white was considered to be a detraction from the value of the area," said Bruce Mitchell, a senior researcher at the NCRC and one of the study's authors.

White families have nearly 10 times the net worth of black families. And the gap is growing.

Loans in these neighborhoods were unavailable or very expensive, making it more difficult for low-income minorities to buy homes and setting the stage for the country's persistent racial wealth gap. (White families today have nearly 10 times the net worth of black families and more than eight times that of Hispanic families, according to the Federal Reserve.)

"Homeownership is the number-one method of accumulating wealth, but the effect of these policies that create more hurdles for the poor is a permanent underclass that's disproportionately minority," said John Taylor, president and chief executive of the NCRC. "I think most people believe the problem is not with the rules but with the people. Most middle-class whites in America don't have empirical observations of what happens in underserved neighborhoods or understand the historical treatment of poor and minority communities."

The Federal Housing Administration institutionalized the system of discriminatory lending in government-backed mortgages, reflecting local race-based criteria in their underwriting practices and reinforcing residential segregation in American cities. The discriminatory practices captured by the HOLC maps continued until 1968, when the Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in housing.

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But 50 years after that law passed, the lingering effects of redlining are clear, with the pattern of economic and racial residential segregation still evident in many U.S. cities - from Montgomery, Ala., to Flint, Mich., to Denver.

Nationally, nearly two-thirds of neighborhoods deemed "hazardous" are inhabited by mostly minority residents, typically black and Latino, researchers found. Cities with more such neighborhoods have significantly greater economic inequality. On the flip side, 91 percent of areas classified as "best" in the 1930s remain middle-to-upper-income today, and 85 percent of them are still predominantly white.

Researchers found that redlined neighborhoods in the South and the West are more likely today to be home to a largely minority population. Neighborhoods in the South and Midwest display the most persistent economic inequality.

In Macon, Ga., 65 percent of neighborhoods were marked "hazardous" in the 1930s, making it the most redlined city in the United States, followed closely by Birmingham, Ala., and Wichita, Kan.

Here are the 10 U.S. cities with the highest percentages of neighborhoods marked "hazardous" in the 1930s:

The racial disparity is reflected in the city's poverty statistics. Nearly 35 percent of blacks in Macon live in poverty today, compared with less than 13 percent of whites, according to 2012 to 2016 census data.

In Baltimore, one of the earliest cities to officially adopt restrictive covenants limiting African Americans and Jews to certain neighborhoods, nearly every census tract labeled "hazardous" in the 1930s remains low-to-moderate income today, researchers found. The only exceptions are the areas surrounding Baltimore's harbor, a former industrial front that's been redeveloped to attract businesses and tourism.

Nearly 70 percent of formerly redlined communities in Baltimore remain predominantly minority, as well as lower income. Even neighborhoods in western Baltimore that had been rated as "desirable" subsequently became populated with minority, low-income residents as middle-class whites fled to the suburbs, researchers said.

A 2015 study of home mortgage and small-business lending in Baltimore by the NCRC found that race, more than income, affected mortgage lending in the city. Lending is greater in neighborhoods with larger white populations, with banks making more than twice as many mortgage loans to whites as they did to blacks.

Interactive: View and download NCRC maps for 114 metropolitan areas

A February report by the Center for Investigative Reporting showed that redlining persists in 61 metro areas - from Detroit and Philadelphia to Little Rock and Tacoma, Wash. - even when controlling for applicants' income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to its analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records.

Banks have largely blamed the racial lending discrepancies on borrowers' credit scores. Lenders were supposed to soon start reporting extra information about credit scores and other loan-pricing features. But the Senate recently voted to roll back the new reporting requirements for small lenders.

The researchers also analyzed 30 cities for patterns of gentrification, where once-redlined neighborhoods showed an increase in median home values and educational attainment between 2000 and 2010. They found that in cities with higher levels of gentrification, more redlined neighborhoods had become middle-to-upper-income neighborhoods. These areas saw a greater influx in economic activity and changes to their downtowns. They also now have lower levels of segregation, with more interaction between blacks and whites, as well as greater economic inequality between newcomers and those who have historically lived there.

Researchers ranked Portland, Ore., which has seen an influx of financial investment from the tech sector, as the most gentrified American city, with 58 percent of its census tracts having gentrified. It is followed by Minneapolis, Seattle, Atlanta and Denver.

Detroit was the least gentrified city, the research showed, with less than 3 percent of its census tracts having gentrified, and only around the downtown core. But artists and other "urban pioneers" have in recent years begun moving into more pockets of the city, researchers said.

Longtime residents of formerly redlined neighborhoods are often pushed out when the areas' economic fortunes are reversed, researchers said. Many can no longer afford the rising rents. Homeowners often can't afford the increases in property taxes, and as their home values rise, many are tempted to sell and cash out.

"Is gentrification promoting sustainable desegregation?" Mitchell said. "Or is it just a movement towards increased segregation in the next census period?"
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Analysis | Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It's still hurting minorities today.

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These government maps documented racist lending practices that gave rise to today's segregated neighborhoods.

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For a long time, black people haven't been treated the same as white people and the lyrics "we slaves in the '40s, still, slaves in the present" demonstrate how people feel like things haven't changed. When it says "White man kill a black man, they never report us black man kill a white man, they gon' start a war up" it shows again that black people feel as if they're treated unfairly by police and that something that a white person does and won't get in trouble for is something that a black person would get in huge trouble for. In The Hate U Give, the officer that killed Khalil wasn't even pleaded guilty at first. If the roles were reversed and a black man shot a white man then there would be no question about it at all and I'm sure the black man would go straight to jail.

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Meek Mill - Young Black America (feat. The-Dream) [Official Music Video]

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Rationale: How Black Americans See Discrimination

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Rationale: How Black Americans See Discrimination

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In the podcast, Gene Demby and Rachel Martin talk about statistics that showed that 92% of African-Americans that surveyed said they have felt discrimination themselves or they've seen it happen to others like them. Demby continues and states "Well, you can see discrimination against African-Americans everywhere. It's backed up by the data. You can see it in housing and policing. Black people, for example, live in areas with more concentrated poverty, even when they are higher earners. Black Americans are more likely to go to segregated and underfunded schools, more likely to be stopped by the police and more likely to be searched once they are stopped." This shows the unfair treatment of blacks and how there's even data for it. It also shows that these people aren't getting equal opportunities as others as they are usually living in impoverished places or attending less fortunate schools which could cause someone to have a worse education or have fewer opportunities in sports, music, etc.

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Podcast: How Black Americans See Discrimination

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Podcast: How Black Americans See Discrimination

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John legend tweets about unfair treatment by police multiple times after seeing a video of 25 year-old Chikesia Clemons, wrestled inside a waffle house by police after refusing to pay an extra 50 cents for plastic utensils. John legend tweets as he feels black people are targeted by police and can get shot for just living their life and doing nothing wrong.  This can causes black people to live in fear.

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On this episode of Speakeasy with Denene, we give you a glimpse into two generations of blackness.

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Summary of "Mad Libs: Black Death Edition"

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Charlotte Abotsi preforms this slam poem and places accents on how frequent black deaths are occurring alongside the police by delivering police reports, news articles, and Facebook statuses that all sound so familiar at this point. All you had to do was fill in the blanks.

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"Mad Libs: Black Death Edition" by Charlotte Abotsi

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Charlotte Abotsi - "Mad Libs: Black Death Edition"

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"Getting real with you, I feel a little defeated. Knowing there are people who don’t want me to succeed is depressing."

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“That idiot ‘pundit’ would rather believe you and Manny were thugs than believe a twenty-year veteran cop made a snap judgment based on skin color. He identifies with the cop. If the cop is capable of murder, it means he’s capable of the same. He can’t accept that.”

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“Yeah, there are no more “colored” water fountains, and it’s supposed to be illegal to discriminate, but if I can be forced to sit on the concrete in too-tight cuffs when I’ve done nothing wrong, it’s clear there’s an issue. That things aren’t as equal as folks say they are.”

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Justyce is an intelligent young black man living a very challenging life. He attends a white prep school on scholarship and excels in and out of class. His family lives in poverty and is surrounded with local criminals. Before graduation Justyce and his friend Manny are stopped by the police and Manny has no worry while Justyce gets very panicky. Manny doesn't understand why Justyce is so scared by the police and that is when Justyce realizes that even his black friends don't quiet understand the way life for him is. As the police comes up he draws out a gun and murders Manny. Justyce decides that he should unite the poor and wealthy black Americans into a sense of community, but one day he gets arrested at school and and framed for the murder of Manny by the police who actually shot Manny. While awaiting trial, he reads the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other members of civil rights messages. Justyce realizes he is a martyr for the continuation of racial injustice and systemic racism. As time goes on the truth finally comes out about the death of Manny and Justyce is freed. He later goes to Yale.

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"Momma fussed and told Daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn't too young to get arrested or shot."

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“I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”

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“Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”

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Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl was inspired to raise her voice in her community after her very close childhood friend, Khalil, was shot and killed right in front of her by a white officer for driving "suspiciously". The murder takes the news rapidly and the media spins the story to make Khalil out as a drug dealer who provoked the police officer. The jury fails to reach a guilty verdict for the officer who killed Khalil. The neighborhood responds to the jury with a series of peaceful protests and Starr steps up to become a public figure in addressing the case of brutality. She joins more protests controlled by police officers with riot gear. In school, some racist remarks are made to her that question the persona she has developed in the mainly white boarding school she attends. Starr continues to stand up for what she believes is right as she vowed to keep the memory of Khalil alive by always standing up against racial injustice. Out of the tragedy she and her community has gone through and by help from her family and friends, she can turn the horrible memory of the death of her good friend into good.

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How do different backgrounds shape different people?