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EDUCATION is key
Learning more about modern segregation is the first step in solving this issue. By reading articles, watching documenteries, and reading you will gain more knowledge on the issue and how to help your community.
Modern segregation is when resources like education, housing, medical care, and healthy food, are segregated along racial lines. Modern segregation is caused by many things, including redlining, white flight, and affordable housing. When their are segregated communities, it is very easy to have resources in one community versus another.
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The South Side by Natalie Moore
"Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities through the stories of people who reside there. The South Side shows the impact of Chicago's historic segregation - and the ongoing policies that keep the system intact."
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
"The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America is a 1992
biography by Alex Kotlowitz that describes the experiences of two
brothers growing up in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes."
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education by Noliwe Rooks
"Rooks’s incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of “segrenomics,” showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gaps—including charters, vouchers, and cyber schools—rely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity.
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese
"Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C...By connecting community members' stories to the larger issues of racism and gentrification, Reese shows there are hundreds of Deanwoods across the country."
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson
" 'Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system.' "
"Why We Shouldn’t Be So Quick to Move People Out of High-Poverty Neighborhoods."
Food Deserts Don't Benefit from More Supermarkets in CHICAGO, Study
Finds.
Thousands Of African-Americans Are Leaving Chicago Each Year. Why?
Whole Foods Debuts In Englewood.
$5 Million Earmarked For Small Business In Poor Neighborhoods.
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"The Youngers, an African-American Family lives in the South Side of Chicago. Mama puts a down payment on a house for the whole family. She believes that a bigger, brighter dwelling will help them all. This house is in Clybourne Park, an entirely white neighborhood. When the Youngers’ future neighbors find out that the Youngers are moving in, they send Mr. Lindner, from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, to offer the Youngers money in return for staying away. The Youngers refuse the deal, even after Walter loses the rest of the money ($6,500) to his friend Willy Harris, who persuades Walter to invest in the liquor store and then runs off with his cash."
"After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation. One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, who is sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite evidence proving his innocence. In the years that follow, Stevenson encounters racism and legal and political maneuverings as he tirelessly fights for McMillian's life."
"Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer."
"Exists to provoke a serious debate about the necessity and limitations of empathy, the morality of retaliatory violence, and the ongoing black struggle for justice and equality in this country."
"The film often takes a comedic approach to its serious subject matter. In it, Daveed Diggs (who also co-wrote and produced) plays Collin, a parolee who is plagued by the witnessing of a white cop shooting a black civilian. The complications of racism, relationships, and urban gentrification in Oakland play out through Collin’s interactions with his over-the-top and reckless white best friend, played by the film’s other co-writer, Rafael Casal."
"This film takes place in the midst of rapid gentrification in Oakland, where a black telemarketer rises in the ranks of his company in part by employing a code-switching “white voice” on his calls. Once again in the interest of avoiding spoilers, suffice it to say that he is met with a harsh awakening when he reaches the executive suites."
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
"Jimmie Fails and his family called San Francisco home for generations. They loved it, nurtured it, and, for the most part, felt like they belonged. But that's all in the past tense now. They have been pushed to the outskirts, and other people have moved in. These new folks are different than Fails. He's black, they're white; he's struggling for cash, they have more than they know what to do with; he's creative and quirky, they're tech-obsessed and straight-laced. Their arrival has heralded a new reality for the City by the Bay—one that leaves no room for Fails's community, which helped make San Francisco what it is."
"It's no secret that San Francisco has undergone one of the fastest-paced gentrifications in recent memory and that many long-time residents like Fails have been left behind. But it's a rare thing for a film to genuinely capture the soul of the dispossessed, and of a city that's losing its memory."
Race Matters: America in Crisis
“Race Matters: America in Crisis, A PBS NewsHour Special” focuses on the
frustration pouring out onto American streets, and outrage about police
brutality and also explores America’s deep systemic racial disparities
in education, the criminal justice system, the economy and health care,
especially during the COVID-19 pandemic."
"Banding together in one of postwar America's most segregated cities to
confront issues like police brutality and substandard housing, they
called themselves the Rainbow Coalition."
"The rich history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs) began before the end of slavery, flourished in the
20th century, and profoundly influenced the course of the nation for
over 150 years — yet remains largely unknown...the essential role the
nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) played in
shaping black life, creating a black middle class and dismantling
segregation cannot be overstated."
"When Lena puts a down payment on a house in a primarily white
neighborhood, the neighborhood association tries to buy the house back
in order to keep the Youngers out, highlighting the barriers erected by
racism."
"At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30
completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the
book James Baldwin never finished."
"Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the
United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are
disproportionately filled with African-Americans."
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
"This series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from
the origins of slavery on the African continent right up to today when
America remains a nation deeply divided by race."
Teach Us All (Only Found on Netflix)- "It's been decades since Brown V. The Board of Education, yet American schools remain laregly segregated. Some leaders are working to change that."
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