Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

This PBS town hall meeting, moderated by Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues around race relations that have come to the fore after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, and the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds that followed.

From PBS and narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this documentary starts with the Selma marches and Watts riots, to white backlash and hip-hop and hope, to the divisive 1980s and 1990s, and ends with enduring modern obstacles.

A documentary by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the grassroots movement discusses the motivation behind the #BlackLivesMatter movement and proposes paths forward.

14-part series that tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.

4-part series by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive destruction and revolutionary social change.

This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. Distributed by PBS Distribution.

In this program, writers Alice Walker and bell hooks and others examine the emergence of African-American women as popular and powerful voices of social conscience.