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Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

https://www.ted.com/talks/priya_vulchi_and_winona_guo_what_it_takes_to_be_racially_literate

Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.

In this quick talk, visual artist Dread Scott tells the story of one of his most transgressive art installations, which drew national attention for its controversial use of the American flag and led to a landmark First Amendment case in the US Supreme Court.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sanford_biggers_an_artist_s_unflinching_look_at_racial_violence

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_rucker_the_symbols_of_systemic_racism_and_how_to_take_away_their_power

Phillip Zimbardos famous Stanford Expirament which raised skepticism for its barbaric interpretasions of power and the horrible and psychologialdamageit caused the test subjects.

I remember the Challenger space shuttle disaster. We watched it live in elementary school. Too young to understand death or the mess of the world the grown-ups were making, I’ve learned a lot since then. Now I’m one of the grown-ups and we have some serious cleaning up to do.

the theory of devience has been around since the beggining of time trying to understand and control the morals and beliefs of what is deemed wrong from right and the fine line between power and destruction.

A manifesto for overcoming educational inequality in America’s schools.

The Anti-intellectualism counter-culture is becoming a very present culture inn recent times. The transition from Counter-culture to sub-culture to eventually the mainstream. An example of this would be Hip Hop seemingly an over night culture over the years became the mainstream and the biggest genre of music.

This photo dubbed the “The Vulture and The Little Girl” won a Pulitzer prize the photographer Kevin Carter later committed suicide. This image sparked controversy around the ethics and morals in the world of journalism

Dj Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and African Bambaataa the founders of the Hip Hop culture that originated in the streets of New York

Documentary from Sonali Aggarwal: Starring Afrika Bambaataa, KRS-ONE, Busy Bee, Kool Keith, MC Lyte, Slick Rick, Jean Grae, Gemini and other notable people b...

The paradigm shift in hip hop culture started in the late 1960s as a counterculture revolving around music with 4 main pillars “Deejaying”, “Breakin”, “Graffiti”, and “Emceein”. This subculture of music transitioned from a way for ethnic minorities to express issues they were facing in the society through poetry songs and the four pillars, as it gained more popularity hip hop transitioned to more of a mentality that focused on the “gangster lifestyle” being portrayed as a life with money, alcohol, drugs (weed), and women. This influenced a rise in the culture as more and more people got entrenched in the fantasy lifestyle being portrayed. This meant that as the mainstream popularity increased, the messages that hip hop was based on fell second to the money paving a way to mainstream and become the popular culture it is today.

James Baldwin, dressed in a suit, tie and sheepskin coat, stood in front of a New Orleans ice cream parlor, looking straight ahead with a fu

James Baldwin was the most famous and influential black writers of the 20th century. Baldwin’s novels and plays highlighted and expressed the fundamental questions and social pressures of that time, issues that not only affected The African American people but also the gay and bisexual community. Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, 1956 highlights some of his best dynamics.

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