The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a New York-based national organization founded in 1974, protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. AALDEF focuses on critical issues affecting Asian Americans, including immigrant rights, voting rights and democracy, economic justice for workers, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian…
Lesson plan with the objective of the defriefing an election that has profound negative impact on communities of color. Online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t-yjKl5oRRFAVtXAFknWImdmnsLCcumR4S2Y2nmriag/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR26ExJg6ZBLomGKkUiysiHx_ZAlWhUKCGSJ-49fACjPPYyaNF1q-153fb4
Tribal Nations Maps is a Native American owned business that creates tribal maps of Canada, the Untied States and Mexico. The website also includes articles and media realted to indigenous mapping. Online: http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com
This Teen Vogue video features young Native American women and their testimonies on the real history of Thanksgiving. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jLeBWMA0U
This website features the hand painted info-graphics created by WEB Dubois and his students to comment on race and racism during the 19th century. Online: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900?fbclid=IwAR13LSSo4w-F7RzrbX_aJxx1bGzJr3Sid7zuPhqAuqu0ez1cWANng69Q1hU
In this 2016 TED Talk, Kimberlé Crenshaw, the scholar who coined the term intersectionality, speaks passionately about the idea of intersesctionality in relation to violence against Black women. Online: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?fbclid=IwAR0Isi_keH9nlHgV3wecEpwiqbfDxfkIpZQSdLh9LbgK9VP6KOrETxbSXxI
Short film about an undocumented student at UCLA and the DREAM Act. Originally done through the Armed with a Camera fellowship through Visual Communications in Little Tokyo, LA. May 2007. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7J2b3t4WU&fbclid=IwAR1SafOoQtpDnjFv5wODPj2PxEzXV4xVQnlaDbmrXRFqgO3oqc7rA_A6yBU
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these restrictive…
Created for 2020 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, this covers a variety of topics and includes reading lists, spotlights on pioneers and trailblazers in the community, documentaries on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues, and Asian American food. Online: https://www.nbcnews.com/writeourstories
A catalog of education films spanning across subject areas organized by grade level, including standards and resources for educators and students. Online: https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/