African-Americans Americanization Experience

1.Click here to view the video The African Americans Many Rivers To Cross  Episode 4 - Making A Way Out of No Way 1897 - 1940.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOH8QvaLSQ

2.Click here to view the video The  Brown Eyes Blue Eyes Experiment, by Jane Elliott.  If this path does not open then click on the link below or copy and paste into a new window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZEJHJPwIw

3.Click here to view the video on Wealth: America's other racial divide.  If the path does not open, click on the link below or copy/paste into a separate window.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/27/news/economy/racial-wealth-gap-blacks-whites/

4. This news article highlight past ans current public policies responsible for  the distancing of Black wealth inequality compared to Whites.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/the-average-black-family-would-need-228-years-to-build-the-wealth-of-a-white-family-today/

5. This article appeared in The Atlanta Black Star online news source to explain the complexities of race, racism, and assimilation of Blacks into mainstream predominately White American society.

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http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/07/05/assimilation-black-americas-elusive-goal/

6. Click here to read the NY Times article, I Have a Black Son in Baltimore, Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease.  

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/i-have-a-black-son-in-baltimore-anxious-new-parents-and-an-era-of-unease.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

7. Click here to read the NY Times article Affluent and Black and Still Trapped By Segregation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-wealthy-black-families.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

8. This article supports discussions and readings revealing the systemic inequalities of an historic criminal justice system in the black community.  For greater clarity on the impacts of the criminal justice system on the Black community, I encourage you to watch the NETFLIX documentary The 13th.

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https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/08/03/data-show-racial-disparity-in-crack-sentencing

9. This Learning Module item should open in a new window. If not, then click the link below. Click to Launch 

https://www.bet.com/video/betawards/2016/acceptance-speeches/jesse-williams-receives-humanitarian-award.html