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10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You

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It's important now more than ever that Australians engage in important conversations about race.

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Learning about race and racism on Netflix

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Protests against police brutality have erupted across the country following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Documentaries

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Using never-before heard recordings, rare archival footage and her best-known songs, this is the story of legendary singer and activist Nina Simone.

The documentary also includes interviews with Simone's daughter and friends, and chronicles her life as an artist and becoming a civil rights activist.

DuVernay's distribution, arts and advocacy collective, Array, has also just launched an education platform to accompany the Netflix series, to help viewers learn more about the case and offer episode breakdowns.

This seven season series Orange Is the New Black begins when Piper Chapman, a white woman, goes to jail for money laundering, and has to cope inside an American female prison.

This historical drama follows two World War II veterans, one black, one white, who return to rural Mississippi, and confront the realities of prejudice, racism, PTSD and friendship in the divided World War II era.

It most notably stars Carey Mulligan and Mary J. Blige. It also broke some records at the 90th Academy Awards, where it got nominated for Best Cinematography, making Rachel Morrison the first woman ever nominated in the category.

The Sun Is Also A Star

A good film for a younger audience to watch, this film is an American teen drama film based on the young adult novel by Nicola Yoon.

Natasha lives in New York City with her parents Samuel and Patricia, and her brother Peter, all of whom are illegally in the country. Natasha and her family are set to be deported back to Jamaica.

Natasha then unexpectedly crosses paths with Daniel, while in the process of avoiding deportation to Jamaica, and the pair fall in love. As well as a love story, it depicts the struggle immigrants face in an often hostile environment.

Blindspotting

Nearing the end of his probation, ex-convict Colin, who lives in Oakland, just wants to avoid prison - but the reckless behaviour of his white best friend Miles doesn't make it easy.

Following a scene early on in which Collin witnesses a white police officer shoot a black man with no provocation, the film expresses the mental toll it takes on him, and how it almost comes between his and Miles's friendship.

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19 Netflix movies, shows and documentaries about race and racism

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Protests against police brutality have erupted across the country following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the US and beyond, it's become even more important to make sure we are educated about the injustices in our society.

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1. 1619 (New York Times)

2. About Race

3. Code Switch (NPR)

4. Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

5. Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

6. Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

7. Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

8. Seeing White

9. The Combahee River Collective Statement

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ACTIVISM. SOCIAL JUSTICE. CULTURE. POLITICS.

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Listen to this episode from The goop Podcast on Spotify. "What part do I play?" asks Robin DiAngelo, academic and author of White Fragility. DiAngelo's critical, urgent work asks us to question what we thinkwe know about racism, the conversations we avoid having about racism, and the roles we might (unintentionally) be playing in upholding inequality.

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Equal pay day for a particular racial or gender group marks the extra days someone in that group has to work into the next year to earn what the typical white man earned in the previous year.

Based on income figures from 2018, it would take the median black woman worker 226 extra days into a new year to earn what a median white male worker made in the previous year.

A study by the Department of Education showed that in 2013, Black high school students were only a bit more than half as likely as white students to have any Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credit, and only about a third as likely to have AP/IB credit for math.

This chart, based on another study from Opportunity Insights, looks at the likelihood that a child whose parents had only a high school diploma goes on to earn a college degree or higher.

Only 15% of Black students from less-educated households went on to finish college, well below the 25% of white children who earned a degree.

The most recent numbers available on imprisonment rates come from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' analysis of 2018 data, which showed that Black men aged 18-19 were 12.7 times as likely to be imprisoned as their white peers, and Black men of all ages were roughly 5.8 times more likely to be imprisoned than white men.

A Pew Research Center analysis of the data showed that the Black imprisonment rate has actually dropped by 34% since 2006 - the greatest decline across all races.

Yet even still, Black Americans - and particularly Black men - remain more likely than any other group to be imprisoned. For every 100,000 Black men there are 2,272 inmates, whereas for every 100,000 white men there are just 392 inmates.

According to the federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, marijuana usage between Black and white Americans is similar. Just 18% of Black people over the age of 12 in 2018 reported using marijuana within the past year, while 17% of white people over the age of 12 reported the same.

But the usage rate is where the similarities end - that same year, Black Americans were arrested 3.6 times more often than white Americans for marijuana possession, according to an American Civil Liberties Union analysis of FBI and US Census data.

According to the ACLU's analysis of marijuana arrest data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, racial disparities in marijuana arrests have continued in every state.

Despite widespread reforms to state marijuana policies, the racial disparity has even gotten worse over the years, not better. For instance, in 2010, Black people were 3.31 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people, and over the years the rate ticked up to 3.64 in 2018.

The marijuana arrests that continue to the present day have disproportionately "caused profound and far-reaching harm on the people arrested, convicted, and/or incarcerated for marijuana offenses," the ACLU wrote. "It has been a colossal waste of money and law enforcement resources that has only deepened the divide between communities and their governments and increased public hurt rather than safety."

Research from Columbia University's Justice Lab has shown that Black people are far more likely than white people to be under parole supervision. Though the federal prison system has largely abolished parole, most states still retain the practice of releasing some inmates from prison sentences early in exchange for heavy supervision while they try to get back on their feet.

New York state has a particularly extreme racial disparity when it comes to parole supervision. Black people are 6.77 times more likely to be under parole supervision than white people, the Justice Lab found. They are also 4.99 times more likely than white people to be re-incarcerated due to "technical" parole violations, meaning that they had parole revoked due to minor infractions such as missing an appointment, rather than committing a new crime.

A Justice Lab report said parole supervision has also had an unequal effect on Black people - even though some of the supervision requirements may seem neutral or sensible, they may be far harder for people in Black communities to abide by through no fault of their own.

For instance, one common parole requirement is for parolees to stay away from people who have felony convictions. Yet an estimated one-third of Black men have felony convictions. That means parolees could be ordered to stay away from friends, family members, and neighbors.

"People on parole ... may be forced to choose between obeying the rules on one hand, or, on the other, risking a parole violation by spending time with relatives and friends who could be valuable sources of support, stability, housing, or employment connections," the Justice Lab report said.

The Washington Post has compiled one of the most thorough datasets available when it comes to fatal police shootings, and it has sparked debate over what it means when it comes to racial bias in police killings.

The data show that more than half of the people fatally shot by police in America within the last five years were actually white - but fatal police shootings of Black people were disproportionately high, considering they account for roughly 13% of the US population.

As of June 12, 2,469 white people had been fatally shot since 2015 at rate of 13 per million, whereas 1,293 Black people were fatally shot at a rate of 31 per million.

The database also comes with a number of other qualifiers - namely, that it tracks only fatal police shootings, not fatal police encounters in general. So the deaths of Black men like George Floyd, which occurred after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, have not been included in the dataset, nor have the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, who died from a police chokehold, or Freddie Gray in Baltimore, who died of spinal injuries he suffered in a police van.

It's also worth pointing out that every fatal police shooting included in the database has its own unique set of circumstances that may or may not have justified a shooting. For instance, the database includes Omar Mateen, the mass shooter who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub in 2016 before police fatally shot him.

The majority of fatal police shootings - 4,037 out of the 5,403 people fatally shot by police in the last five years - occurred when a suspect had either a gun or a knife.

Though the presence of a weapon does not in and of itself mean each of those police shootings was justified (for example, the database includes the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, who was legally armed and obeyed the officer's commands during a traffic stop), officers are generally permitted to use deadly force when they believe a person poses a serious threat of injury or death.

But even when narrowing the data down to fatal police shootings of unarmed people, it shows a similar story as the aggregate data. Of the 352 instances where police fatally shot unarmed people, 145 of those people were white and 123 were Black (63 were Hispanic and 21 were designated "other" or "unknown.") - that's a rate of 10.7 white deaths per 10 million, and 30.1 Black deaths per 10 million.

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25 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America

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Equal pay day for a particular racial or gender group marks the extra days someone in that group has to work into the next year to earn what the typical white man earned in the previous year.

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represent 55,842 applications submitted for 26,326 positions."

We observe no change in the level of hiring discrimination against African Americans over the past 25 years, although we find modest evidence of a decline in discrimination against Latinos. Accounting for applicant education, applicant gender, study method, occupational groups, and local labor market conditions does little to alter this result. Contrary to claims of declining discrimination in American society, our estimates suggest that levels of discrimination remain largely unchanged, at least at the point of hire.