Hard Time : Prison Gangs – criminology, corrections, subculture

Published on Aug 18, 2011
In prison, every day is a fight for survival. An inmate’s most important weapon might not be a shank, but a gang membership.

Meet a powerful member of the Aryan Brotherhood — and he’ll do anything to keep his reputation.

Stop & Frisk: Ever been frisked by the cops? – criminology, policing, race

Published on Aug 13, 2012 by TotallyBiasedFX
Stop & Frisk: Ever been frisked by the cops? Follow Kamau’s advice and make that unfortunate experience fun! Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell

Totally Biased: It’s a great time to be an Indian American

Published on Sep 21, 2012 by TotallyBiasedFX
It’s a great time to be an Indian American (unless you piss off Hari Kondabolu). Join Hari as he celebrates his people’s success by pointing a few of their failures

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington – New Orleans, politics, race

Watch Full Program on PBS. See more from Mr. Cao Goes to Washington.

Joseph Cao of New Orleans, LA

What happens when a Vietnamese American political rookie goes up against the realities of Southern racial politics and ultra-partisan struggles in Washington, DC? Directed by S. Leo Chiang, MR. CAO GOES TO WASHINGTON follows the unexpected journey of Representative Joseph Cao, a Vietnamese American Republican who scored a surprise victory when he was elected in a predominantly African American Democratic district in New Orleans. The first Vietnamese American ever elected to the U.S. Congress and the only non-white House Republican of the 111th Congress, Cao quickly made headlines as the only Republican to vote for President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act. But will two years in Washington allow Cao to keep his integrity and idealism intact?

Totally Biased: The Kwanzaa Bonanzaa

Published on Nov 30, 2012 by TotallyBiasedFX
Let’s face it: Kwanzaa is nowhere near the most popular winter holiday and it probably never will be. A word to any well-intentioned whites who want to help by spreading the Kwanzaa joy: don’t.

Sikhs vs. Sheiks – Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell

Diversity and cultural awareness.

Published on Aug 13, 2012 by TotallyBiasedFX
Sikhs vs. Sheiks: Can’t we all just get along?

People & Power – America’s prison problem

Published on Nov 1, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
The US locks up more people than any other country in the world, spending over $80bn each year to keep some two million prisoners behind bars. Over the past three decades, tough sentencing laws have contributed to a doubling of the country’s prison population, with laws like the ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ mandating life sentences for a wide range of crimes.

Racism ‘on the rise’ in the US

Published on Oct 27, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
The survey measured the reactions of a random group towards black americans.
Fifty one per cent of those polled admitted to being prejudiced against black people.

Al Jazeera talks to James Braxton Peterson in Philadelphia, a Political Analyst and Director of African Studies at Lehigh University.

MEGAPOST: Handshakes

African Immigrants Talk About Life in Beijing

Published on Aug 27, 2012 by VOAvideo

Chinese companies have invested heavily in Africa, in recent years, and trade among Asian and African nations has soared. As their economic ties have grown, so have the number of African immigrants to China, now estimated at around half a million people. Shannon Van Sant talked with Africans who have re-located to the Chinese capital city about why they decided to move to China.

Soul Food Junkies | Trailer | PBS

Premiering January 2013 on Independent Lens.

A Film by Byron Hurt

Baffled by his dad’s reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and it’s relevance to black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community have with soul food is deep-rooted, complex, and in some tragic cases, deadly. Through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians and scholars, as well as doctors, family members, and everyday people, Soul Food Junkies puts this culinary tradition under the microscope to examine both its benefits and consequences. Hurt looks at the socioeconomics of predominantly black neighborhoods, where it can be difficult to find healthy options, and

MEGAPOST: Toddlers & Tiaras

Fearless, Ferocious, and Five

Little pageant Princess Kylie is “Triple F,” five, fearless and ferocious.

The Onion – Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult

The court ruled a white teen who stabbed a classmate to death will face the jury as a 300-pound black man.

Obama wins and racism ends forever

Legit – A Nigger in Northface (2011)

“A Nigger in Northface” off Legit’s (@chicagolives) mixtape “Coloring Outside The Lines”.

Recommended by a student. In DJ Academe’s opinion, the visual story of a violent reaction to interracial dating is unsettling, and not the way it was intended. Racism still provokes violence, to be sure, but out of a 21st century middle-class white man? His racism is likely to be more subtle, and we run the risk of ignoring those subtleties when focusing on extreme examples. This sounds like a good debate for class…