According to Gordon Allport, stereotypes are ingrained in the human brain as a way to reach quick conclusions. His 1979 text The Nature of Prejudice explains that people fill in the gaps of their knowledge with the clues around...

Introduce your class to the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois with a short video that presents the key ideas in the essays collected in The Souls of Black Folk. Published in 1903, it details the early civil rights leader's ideas about the...

Imagine being forced to assimilate: giving up your language and culture, adopting the traditions of your oppressors. Frantz Fanon's study of colonial domination is the focus of a short video that introduces viewers to the key ideas in...

Heathens! Barbarians! Savages! When encountering a culture vastly different from their own, explorers often viewed the activities and traditions of a society new to them through a lens colored by their own values and experiences....

Introduce your class to Benjamin Banneker, self-taught mathematician and scientist, with a short video that details some of the many accomplishments of the son of freed slaves and contemporary of Thomas Jefferson.

Is the Earth going to be hit by a giant asteroid? An earth science video begins with an update on various topics including volcanoes, asteroids, and ancient art. Then it briefly discusses the biological origins of intolerance.

The entire text of the 19th amendment is only two sentences long. It declares that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." However, the passing of the...

Did you know that Rosa Parks was the secretary for the NAACP? Her famous refusal to give up her bus seat was actually a premeditated act designed by the NAACP to draw light the growing civil rights movement. In part two, professor Melani...

This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in Brown case. [5:44]

This is I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Royal Shakespeare Company Full-Length Film [48:19] based on Cinna a minor character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is the highlights of a video debate on the issue "Is 'Othello' a Racist Play?" which was held on Sunday 9 August 2015 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. [7:13]

Authors and professors James and Lois Horton, present their book, "In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860." Black Bostonians gave the authors an understanding of slavery and community of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Ira Berlin delivers a lecture featuring the premise of his book, Generations in Captivity: Slavery in America. From the early establishment of the settlements in the New World slavery made its presence...

This video [4:34] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo highlights the social climate in the South when To Kill a Mockingbird was first published and a few years later, when the film premiered. The video highlights the reactions to...

This video [5:08] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo describes what life was like for those who challenged the system of segregation in the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Highlighting observations from cultural and...

Children look to their families with love and trust to guide their understanding about their place in this great big world. Here are some easy-to-use resources to help guide conversations with your child about racism and coming together...

A comprehensive site from the National Museum of American History about the rights of citizens and the power of states as seen in the Japanese American internment. Primary resources abound in interactive multimedia galleries.

This multimedia account describes the civil rights standoff between George Wallace and two black students trying to enroll at the University of Alabama. Audio and video clips are included.

This site shares a classroom cast with the author Christopher Paul Curtis. Newbery Award winner, Christopher Paul Curtis discusses his new novel The Mighty Miss Malone, his early writing career and the publication of The Watsons Go to...

This lesson will compare and contrast race and ethnicity. The problems of prejudice and racism will be delineated. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Race and Ethnicity: Prejudice and Racism."

In this video episode [7:01] from The Favorite Poem Project, Reverand Michael Haynes, a minister living in Boston, describes himself and explains why Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem entitled "A Psalm of Life" is an inspiration to his...

This video focuses on Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man. This week, we're reading Ralph Ellison's great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. John will teach you about Ellison's nameless...

This video focuses on Toni Morrison's novel Sula. This week, John is talking about Toni Morrison's novel of friendship, betrayal, and loss, Sula. Sula tells the story of two African American girls, the town where they grew up, the tragic...

This video focuses on the importance of human ancestry including the theory that all humanity has a common ancestry beginning in Africa 74,000 years ago. As population increased, humans began to migrate into various parts of the world...