Racism, Redress and Reparations: A Reading Guide

Award winning media project from the New York Times Magazine, which reframes American history with slavery at the center.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 is a documentary feature film about the false information and political influences which led to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Trailer | IMDB entry

"Hear the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath."

PBS YouTube series presents a brief history of reparations in the U.S. and other countries.

"A Chicago suburb has committed itself to ending “structural racism and achieve racial equity” by tapping into Illinois’s newly legalized cannabis industry. Lawmakers in Evanston, Illinois, overwhelmingly approved a measure in November that will use recreational cannabis tax revenue to fund reparations for the city’s black residents."

"Starting with the history of slavery, and how American wealth was built on the backs of African Americans who were enslaved, “Reparations” offers a history lesson on slavery, and every form of systemic racism, oppression, exclusion and inequities that followed, from generation to generation, for hundreds of years, up until this day."

HBO Documentary: "Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the U.S. The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call "The Beast." NPR Commentary