Films, TV Series & Documentaries

• Healing in Action 2020: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • It is not the responsibility of one person, one group, or even one organization to drive this work. The responsibility belongs to all of us to participate in these honest, powerful and moving experiences and, pursue this journey together. Through racial healing, we can all forge deep, meaningful relationships, lay the groundwork to transform broken systems, and create a world in which, together, we are a new force for positive change.
• UNNATURAL Causes-Is Inequality Making Us Sick? PBS (4 hours)*
  • California Newsreel film sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There's much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity.
  • Documentary available in English & Spanish to Rent $4.99
• John Henryism Hypothesis (21 min.)
  • Epidemiologist Sherman James explores the effects of discrimination on the wellbeing of African Americans, and how stressors induced by racial and economic oppression not only circumscribed opportunities, but also adversely affected people's physical health. 
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50 min)
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion | Peggy McIntosh at TEDx (18:26)
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different from PTSD? | Dr. DeGruy
• Race, Trauma and Healing | NewsMakers PBS with Dr. DeGruy
• Allegories on race and racism | Camera Jones TEDxEmory
• The Urgency of Intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw TEDWomen 2016
• The problem with race-based medicine | Dorothy Roberts TEDMED 2015
• How Racism Makes Us Sick | Dr. David R. Williams TEDMED 2016
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice | Bryan Stevenson
  • human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
• True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

*From Division of Maternal and Infant Health Lending Library

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