Get Mad Crusade
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The Get Mad Crusade

A six month educational conversation we hosted on the injustice surrounding our world, one topic a month. Our goal was, and still is, to cultivate curiosity and understanding by exploring difficult, nuanced issues alongside experts in each field. Walk with us as we learn empathy, pursue justice, and play a small part in building a better, more curious world.

#GETMAD Podcast

Over 22 episodes we worked through coffee inequality, Christian nationalism, the refugee crisis, the drug war, incarceration, and economic inequality, talking with people doing the work in each area. Available on YouTube.

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Vera Espíndola Rafael
Coffee Economist
Phyllis Johnson
CCRE & BD Imports
Faris Sheibani
Qima Coffee
Dr. Carl Hart
Psychologist & Neuroscientist
Renaldo Hudson
Educator & Community Organizer
+ 17 more
The Library

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Films, books, podcasts, articles, and organizations worth your time. Select a topic and medium below.

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Incarceration Movies
13th
“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.” –Rotten Tomatoes
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Refugee Crisis Articles
2016’s most powerful photos of the migrant crisis
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The Drug War Articles
“A Brief History of the Drug War”
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Coffee Inequality Articles
A Business Case to Increase Specialty Coffee Consumption in Producing Countries
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Coffee Inequality Movies
A Film About Coffee
"A Film About Coffee" is a love letter to, and meditation on, specialty coffee. It examines what it takes, and what it means, for coffee to be defined as "specialty." The film whisks audiences on a trip around the world, from farms in Honduras and Rwanda to coffee shops in Tokyo, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York….This is a film that bridges gaps both intellectual and geographical, evoking flavor and pleasure, and providing both as well.”
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Refugee Crisis Books
A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea
"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." -Newsweek
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Refugee Crisis Movies
A Lament for Syria by Amineh
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Refugee Crisis Books
A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel
“Majestic...both timeless and perfectly timed for today...Allende’s assured prose vividly evokes her fictional characters [and] historical figures...seamlessly juxtaposing exile with homecoming, otherness with belonging, and tyranny with freedom.” -Publishers Weekly
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Coffee Inequality YouTube
A Sustainable Coffee Buyer’s Guide
The idea presented by the guide is to use income targets to drive the prices we pay as an industry in a more systematic way, which can be translated from growers all the way through to consumers. At the root of it is a shared desire to end the systematic impoverishment of small coffee farmers through an improved knowledge of their various circumstances.
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Christian Nationalism Articles
Abortion, Racism and the True Origins of the Religious Right
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
Abraham Piper on IG
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
Abraham Piper on TikTok
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
Abraham Piper on TikTok
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Incarceration Take Action!
Advocacy Toolkit
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Incarceration Articles
Alabama Hides the Horrors of Its Executions by Classifying Them as Homicides
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Incarceration Books
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
"All Our Trials is a tour de force. It stands among the best books on the history of modern feminist politics and represents one of the most elucidating histories of the US carceral state produced to date. Emily Thuma centers criminalized women’s ideas and organizing, providing graceful historical analysis that will undoubtedly influence current conversations about imprisonment, gender, and sexual violence. This history opens a fiercely urgent path toward an anticarceral feminist future." -Sarah Haley
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Christian Nationalism Articles
America is not a Christian nation, and here’s why it matters
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The Drug War Movies
American Drug War: Last White Hope
“With commentary from soldiers on both sides of the conflict, filmmaker Kevin Booth's incisive documentary wades into the murky waters of the American war on drugs, the longest and costliest war in U.S. history.”
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Incarceration Articles
America’s incarceration rate falls to lowest level since 1995 | Pew Research Center
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Refugee Crisis Articles
An Afghan photojournalist on the stories of those forced to flee
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Coffee Inequality Articles
An Open Letter to the US Coffee Industry on Racism
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Coffee Inequality Articles
An Open Letter to the US Coffee Industry on Racism: One Year Later
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Anastasiia’s story: Life after fleeing Ukraine
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The Drug War Movies
Apocalypse Now
"My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam." This is how Francis Ford Coppola described his masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, to the press covering the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where the film made its debut. It may seem like a grandiose statement, but the war in Vietnam was a conflict that dragged on longer than anyone expected, saw insane amounts of drug abuse and brutality, and forced everyone involved to examine their very souls in ways that none before it had.”
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Incarceration Books
Are Prisons Obsolete?
"As Angela Y. Davis has written, “prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.” Prisons do not contain a “criminal population” running rampant but rather a population that society has repeatedly failed. Uprisings in response to the hellish conditions Black folk have been forced to live in, both in and out of prison, have been criminalized as well. In her book Are Prisons Obsolete?, Davis effectively analyzes the purpose of prisons. “These prisons represent the application of sophisticated, modern technology dedicated entirely to the task of social control,” she writes, “and they isolate, regulate, and surveil more effectively than anything that has preceded them.” An institution based on social control instead of social well-being is an institution that needs to be abolished." —Colin Kaepernick, from Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Police & Prisons
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Incarceration Articles
Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ Takes a Hard Look at the Realities of Slavery in the U.S.A.
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
BJC
BJC brings people together to tackle today’s serious threats to religious liberty.
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Coffee Inequality Movies
Black Gold
“Black Gold offers a penetrating look into the unbalanced struggling between poor coffee farmers in Ethiopia and greedy multinational coffee companies to do fair trade.”
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Incarceration Articles
Black Sexual Violence Survivors Are Telling Their Stories — Only to Be Punished
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Refugee Crisis Books
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
“Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.” – Publisher“
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Refugee Crisis Books
Books about refugees for kids
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Refugee Crisis Books
Books about refugees for Young Adults
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The Drug War Movies
Breaking the Taboo
“Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years.”
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
Bridge Refugee Services
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Coffee Inequality Books
Coffeeland, One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
“Wonderful, energizing . . . Coffeeland is a data-rich piece of original research that shows in compelling detail how coffee capitalism has delivered both profit and pain, comfort and terror to different people at different times over the past 200 years...Sedgwick's great achievement is to clothe macroeconomics in warm, breathing flesh.” - Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian
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Coffee Inequality Books
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability And Survival
"Brewing Justice hones in on the global coffee industry and the issue of Fair Trade. Fair Trade tends to be a term that is regularly thrown around but seldom fully understood by coffee enthusiasts….what does [fair trade] mean, and how much as coffee consumers should we care? This book reads well, has been carefully researched, and sheds light on a vital ethical issue that is integrally tied to your morning cup of joe.” -James Hyslop
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Coffee Inequality Books
Cheap Coffee: Behind the Curtain of the Global Coffee Trade
“The supply chain for coffee is broken. Cheap Coffee provides a broad explanation of the economics, mechanics and power structures that define the industry today...Change, restructuring and conscientious participation from all stakeholders are needed if coffee farming is to be a viable livelihood for the next generation and part of the solution to the climate crisis that is upon us.” – Daily Coffee News
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Coffee Inequality Books
The Triumph: Black Brazilians in Coffee
“The book addresses the centuries-old history of slavery in the Brazilian coffee sector that has shaped modern-day dynamics in the coffee trade. It also follows the experiences of Black, first-generation landowners who are currently producing specialty coffee.” -Nick Brown
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Coffee Inequality Books
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
“Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history: Pollan’s reporting explores how caffeine has won and lost wars, changed politics, and dominated economies. He asserts, with the support of voluminous research, that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it.” -Audible Originals
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Economic Inequality Movies
Capital in the 21st Century
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Economic Inequality Books
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Coffee Inequality Articles
Capitalism’s Favorite Drug: The dark history of how coffee took over the world
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Incarceration Organizations
Center for Prison Reform
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
Christians Against Christian Nationalism
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Refugee Crisis Books
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
“In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home.” –Publisher
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
Clergy Emergency League
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The Drug War Movies
Code of the West
At a time when the country is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state raises to the forefront of national attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become the first in the nation to repeal its medical marijuana law. Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies, the steamy lamplight of marijuana grow houses, and the bustling halls of the State Capitol, CODE OF THE WEST follows the 2011 Montana State Legislature as it debates the fate of medical marijuana. This is the story of the many lives and fraught emotions tied to one of the most heated policy questions facing the country today. —Racing Horse Productions
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Coffee Inequality Articles
Coffee and Climate Have a Complicated Relationship
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Coffee Inequality Movies
Connected By Coffee
“Connected By Coffee tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to a troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film will show how equitable trading relationships are empowering communities and bringing social justice.”
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Incarceration Articles
Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP
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Incarceration Articles
Criminal Justice Facts | The Sentencing Project
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Economic Inequality Books
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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The Drug War Movies
Dosed
After many years of prescription medications failed her, a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine such as magic mushrooms and iboga. Adrianne’s first dose of psilocybin mushrooms catapulted her into an unexpected world of healing where plant medicines are redefining our understanding of mental health and addiction.
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Incarceration Articles
DPIC Releases Report Placing Death Penalty in Historical Context as a “Descendant of Slavery, Lynching, and Segregation”
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The Drug War Podcasts
Dr. Carl Hart Debunks Drug Myths
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The Drug War Podcasts
Dr. Carl Hart Talks to Trevor Noah
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Drocella Mugorewera’s Mission to Introduce Fellow Refugees to New Lives in Knoxville
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The Drug War Books
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The Drug War Articles
“Drug War Statistics”
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
EMM
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Incarceration Articles
Enduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty
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Economic Inequality Movies
Enron
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Incarceration Organizations
Equal Justice Initiative
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The Drug War Articles
“Exaggerating Harmful Drug Effects on the Brain Is Killing Black People”
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Incarceration Organizations
FAMM
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Incarceration Take Action!
FAMM Action Steps
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Incarceration Take Action!
​​FAMM Tool Kit
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Economic Inequality Books
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
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The Drug War Podcasts
Focus on Clinical Research, Episode 1
The Johns Hopkins Story Trailer
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Former ‘Lost Boy of Sudan' becomes Atlanta police officer
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Incarceration Articles
Freedom should be free - A brief history of bail funds in the US
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The Drug War Movies
From Shock to Awe
From Shock to Awe, an intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon pharmaceuticals to seek relief through the mind-expanding world of psychedelics.
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Christian Nationalism Movies
Give Me Sex Jesus
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Global Nomad presents 25 European films about refugees
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Misc. Books
God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee
“Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever...Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” -Publishers Weekly
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Grounds for Revolution: The Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World
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Refugee Crisis Podcasts
Hamdi Ulukaya: Creating the Right Environment
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Incarceration Articles
Hervis Rogers, Texas Man Held on $100K Bail for Allegedly Voting While on Parol
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The Drug War Books
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
“In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. Carl Hart recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing.” – from the publisher
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Home by Warsan Shire
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Hotel Rwanda
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Refugee Crisis Articles
How A Real Syrian Mother Became The Hero Of A Marvel Comic Book
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Christian Nationalism Articles
How an Abstinence Pledge in the ’90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals
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Christian Nationalism Articles
How Evangelical Purity Culture Can Lead to a Lifetime of Sexual Shame
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The Drug War Articles
“How the United States Fueled a Global Drug War, and Why It Must End”
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The Drug War Movies
How to Change your Mind
“Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline. With Pollan as our guide, we journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds as well as culture.”
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The Drug War Books
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
“Pollan’s deeply researched chronicle will enlighten those who think of psychedelics chiefly as a kind of punchline to a joke about the Woodstock generation and hearten the growing number who view them as a potential antidote to our often stubbornly narrow minds. . . . Engaging and informative.” —The Boston Globe
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The Drug War Movies
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
“A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider's guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry. Told from the perspective of former drug dealers, and featuring interviews with rights advocates Russell Simmons, Susan Sarandon, and David Simon, the film gives you the lessons you need to start your own drug empire while exposing the corruption behind the ‘war on drugs.’”
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Incarceration Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_d3qIGPasY
They Call Us Monsters is a 2016 American documentary directed and produced by Ben Lear. The film follows three juveniles: Juan Gamez, Antonio Hernandez and Jarad Nava. The teenagers participate in a screenwriting class at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, California with producer Gabriel Cowan.
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Human Flow
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Refugee Crisis Articles
‘I believe we can make change happen. We just need to do the work'
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Refugee Crisis Articles
‘I hope Merkel keeps us’: how Nujeen Mustafa travelled from Syria to Germany in a wheelchair
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Incarceration Articles
“I survived death row but I’ll never escape it”
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Refugee Crisis Articles
I swam for my life, I swam in the Olympics, and now I want dignity for all refugees
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Incarceration Organizations
Illinois Prison Project
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Economic Inequality Organizations
Implicit Bias Test
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Incarceration Books
In Defense of Flogging
“If we're capable of taking Moskos' idea as a serious option to incarceration, it could have profound consequences for a nation that incarcerates its citizens at a rate that's seven times as high as the other nations of the world. Clearly we have to find a way to reduce prison populations, and this just might be a logical one.... In Defense of Flogging forces the reader to confront issues surrounding incarceration that most Americans would prefer not to think about.” –The Daily Beast
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Incarceration Articles
Incarceration Statistics | Vera Institute
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Economic Inequality Articles
Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Increasing In-Country Consumption with Vera Espíndola Rafael
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Economic Inequality Movies
Inequality for All
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Economic Inequality Organizations
Inequality.org
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Economic Inequality Movies
Inside Job
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
IRC
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Christian Nationalism Books
Jesus and John Wayne
​​[An] engaging history of the shifting ideal of Christian masculinity...Persuasively arguing that the evangelical dismissal of Trump’s flaws is the culmination of believing that ‘God-given testosterone came with certain side effects,’ Du Mez closes with a bruising chapter on recent evangelical leaders’ abuses and sex scandals...This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump.”–Publishers Weekly
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Christian Nationalism Articles
John Piper’s Son criticizes his upbringing to 935K Tiktok followers
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The Drug War Organizations
Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
They are leading the way in exploring innovative treatments using psilocybin. The molecular structure of psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in 'magic mushrooms,' allows it to penetrate the central nervous system and the scientific and medical experts are just beginning to understand its effects on the brain and mind and its potential as therapeutics for mental illnesses.
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Christian Nationalism Podcasts
Joshua Harris Talks About Faith Deconstruction and How To Clarify Your Message
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Incarceration Books
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemptio
“An unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America — from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned."
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Lin-Manuel Miranda Releases ‘Immigrants’ Video From ‘Hamilton Mixtape’
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Living In America 101: When Refugees Arrive, What Do They Need To Learn?
The story of Edward from the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Incarceration Books
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
“A masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with recurring crises of violence and drug use in the nation’s capital" —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The New York Times Book Review
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The Drug War Articles
"Mama Roz" Preudhomme: "When you honor me, you honor those who came before me"
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The Drug War Books
Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality
"During the decades when society has generally been barred from the careful and legal use of pure psychedelics, MAPS has supported research in the U.S. and elsewhere on the use of mindful molecules in the treatment for example, of post traumatic stress disorder and anxiety about dying from a disease such as cancer." --Craig Comstock, co-author of Sanctions for Evil: Sources of Social Destructiveness
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Many Episodes
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Christian Nationalism Podcasts
Many Episodes
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Many Episodes: Filter Stories
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Incarceration Articles
Mariame Kaba wants us to imagine a future without prisons
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Incarceration Articles
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2022 | Prison Policy Initiative
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The Drug War Podcasts
Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics
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The Drug War Podcasts
Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics
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Refugee Crisis Movies
MORE powerful documentaries about refugees
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Refugee Crisis Movies
MORE powerful films about refugees
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The Drug War Organizations
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS
MAPS are “Researchers of Psychedelics, Leaders of Change.” Founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization specializing in research and education that develops medical, legal, and cultural shifts so people can benefit from the careful use of psychedelics and marijuana for mental health, well being, and connection. In other words, they’ve dedicated the last 35 years to changing the way people think of, talk about, and consume psychedelics through research, education, and advocacy.
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Christian Nationalism Books
Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power
"This trenchant Christian critique of American exceptionalism provides an essential, passionate interpretation of the ideals of egalitarianism." -Publishers Weekly
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
National Coalition Against Censorship
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The Drug War Articles
“New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America's Long War on Drugs”
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Christian Nationalism Books
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
“Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how the comingling of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics today.”
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Incarceration Books
Orange is the New Black
“Following a plea deal for her 10-year-old crime, Piper spent a year in the infamous women’s correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, which she found to be no “Club Fed.” In Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Piper takes readers into B-Dorm, a community of colorful, eccentric, vividly drawn women. Their stories raise issues of friendship and family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior, the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison. Compelling, moving, and often hilarious, Orange is the New Black sheds a unique light on life inside a women’s prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime and did the time.” – from the Publisher
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Incarceration Articles
‘Paying ransom for freedom’: How cash bail is keeping Black mothers stuck in prisons
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The Drug War Articles
“People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, not Because of Opioids”
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The Drug War Podcasts
People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance
with neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Phyllis Johnson and Keba Konte on Letting Go of Sameness
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Refugee Crisis Movies
PJ Harvey, Ramy Essam Address Syrian Refugee Crisis in ‘The Camp’ Video
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Incarceration Articles
Plight of the Girl
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Economic Inequality Organizations
Poor People's Campaign
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Incarceration Organizations
Prison Policy Initiative
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Incarceration Organizations
Project NIA
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Incarceration Take Action!
Project NIA Action Toolkit
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Refugee Crisis Podcasts
Proudly African Show
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The Drug War Podcasts
Psychedelics 101
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Christian Nationalism Books
Pure
“A revelation… Part memoir and part journalism, Pure is a horrendous, granular, relentless, emotionally true account.” –-New York Magazine’s The Cut
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Incarceration Movies
Q Ball
“In Q BALL, several convicts in California's oldest prison, San Quentin, participate in a basketball program. The film focuses mainly on star forward Harry "ATL" Smith, whose impressive skills could lead to a future in the NBA, if he can focus and learn to trust his teammates before he's paroled. Coach Rafael Cuevas, a convicted murderer, does his best to make sure that the team practices discipline and positivity. Older convict Allan "Black" McIntosh, a nonviolent victim of the Three Strikes law, acts as quiet role model. As the team -- called the Warriors -- embarks on its season, they all look forward to the final game against the Golden State Warriors' G League team.”
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The Drug War Articles
“Racially Coded Language Hurts Everyone Who Struggles With Addiction”
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Incarceration Articles
Read these powerful stories
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Christian Nationalism Books
Red State Christians
"What we call 'red states' are an optical illusion--places where religion has been used to pit neighbors against one another so a minority can maintain political control. But what Denker calls 'Red State Christians' are real. They've been cultivated for forty years by the Religious Right, and they've led the charge toward extremism in American public life…." -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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Incarceration Organizations
Reform Alliance
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Refugee Crisis Movies
Refugee Republic
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Refugees, Asylum seekers, and Migrants
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Refugees make America better off
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Refugees Resettled In Chicago Help Make Its Most Famous Cheesecake
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Refugees turned entrepreneurs: ‘I needed to think about the future'
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Refugee Crisis Podcasts
REFUGEES WELCOME
Playlist on Ted.com of stories of refugees
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Economic Inequality Books
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
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The Drug War Articles
Resources from MAPS on Psychedelics
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Incarceration Books
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
"From the penitentiaries and workhouses of the nineteenth century to the current prison-industrial complex, the United States has been a world leader in incarceration, discipline, and punishment. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier examine the social movements that rose to reform or resist the American prison system, with attention to the marginalized activists and their allies who fought for justice both inside and beyond prison walls. This is a necessary and important book." ―Thomas J. Sugrue
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Economic Inequality Books
Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
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Economic Inequality Books
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
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Christian Nationalism Movies
Shamed by Sex
Survivors of the Purity Movement Confront the Past
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Christian Nationalism Books
Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
“Danté Stewart's voice rising is one of the reasons I believe in our common future. It is an honor to be invited into the intimacy, honesty, and inborn wisdom that he offers up in his experiences and insights, his prayers and his theology, his grief and his rage, his exuberance and his love. This book is a kind of map in stories and truths to how we might, as a people, become more whole.” -Krista Tippett
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Slavery and Coffee in Brazil
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The Drug War Books
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
In a blistering expose based on interviews with policy makers and a catalog of damning statistics, journalist Dan Baum shows how America's war on drugs went from a politically potent campaign ploy (courtesy of Richard Nixon) to today's multibillion-dollar government boondoggle -- a war that's run roughshod over Constitutional rights and put a quarter of young black men behind bars without so much as denting the demand for drugs.” – from the Publisher
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Somali refugee in Milwaukee publishes book
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Economic Inequality Organizations
START
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Incarceration Articles
Stats about child incarceration
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Coffee Inequality Articles
Sustainability in Coffee: What Are The Main Issues?
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Syrian Refugee Doaa al Zamel Tells Her Heartbreaking Tale of Survival
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Christian Nationalism Books
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
"Whitehead and Perry present a powerful case that, in understanding contemporary American politics, what matters most is not whether individuals affirm a particular religious, party or even ethnic affiliation; what matters most is whether they support Christian nationalism." -Journal of Contemporary Religion
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Refugee Crisis Books
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
“In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet’s most exciting rising stars.” –Publisher
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
Tent
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Incarceration Articles
The 1,000 Stories Project
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Refugee Crisis Articles
The 13-year-old Syrian refugee who became a prizewinning poet
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Incarceration Organizations
The Bail Project
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The Drug War Movies
The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future
From Vice News…”Psilocybin therapy is on the brink of becoming legally available in the US. But access isn’t guaranteed. There’s a struggle playing out right now between pharmaceutical companies, nonprofits, and other entities over who gets to control and profit off the treatment. The outcome will determine whether the people most likely to benefit from psilocybin therapy will even be able to afford it.“
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Christian Nationalism Books
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
"Hawkins convincingly demonstrates how religion framed, informed, and bolstered South Carolina whites' resistance to racial equality. He further shows how, once the raw biblical justification of segregation acquired a bad reputation, the rhetoric of color-blindness and anti-identity politics carriedthis resistance forward under a more respectable but deceptive guise." -Carolyn Renée Dupont
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The Drug War Movies
The Business of Drugs
"Former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates the economics of six illegal substances, show how drugs push people into risky behaviours."
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The Drug War Podcasts
The Clay Cane Show Interviews Dr. Carl Hart
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The Drug War Movies
The Coca Trap
“A country wants to fight the War on Drugs. Who does it put at the forefront of the war? Hapless peasants! In Colombia, the government has asked farmers to swap coca with alternative plants in exchange for incentives. But when they do that, they face threats from the cartel, & even the military & the police! Why are farmers paying this hefty price to keep drugs at bay?”
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Christian Nationalism Books
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
"With the incision of a prophet, the rigor of a professor, and the heart of a pastor, Jemar Tisby offers a defining examination of the history of race and the church in America.” -Soong Chan Rah
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Incarceration Articles
The Criminal Legal System - Definition of Terms
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Refugee Crisis Books
The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
“Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland.” –Publisher
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Christian Nationalism Podcasts
The Dangers of Christian Nationalism
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Christian Nationalism Podcasts
The Dangers of Purity Culture
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Misc. Books
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
“Who knew that the story of coffee was such a fascinating saga of cruelty, madness, obsession, and death? The Devil’s Cup is absolutely riveting, alternating between the informative and the hilarious. Essential reading for foodies, java-junkies, anthropologists, and anyone else interested in funny, sardonically told adventure stories.” -Anthony Bourdain
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The Drug War Organizations
The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
At DPA, they fight for people. They believe that every person should be able to work, parent, be housed, have a community, experience joy, and live freely regardless of drug use.
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The Drug War Books
The Drug Wars in America
… a sweeping, complex, and searching history of America’s drug wars. Kathleen J. Frydl’s sophisticated, 'state-centered' analysis helps us to understand in new ways the causes of the nation’s greatest social policy failure. A brave and provocative work." – Gary Gerstle, James G. Stahlman Professor of American History, Vanderbilt University
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Economic Inequality Books
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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Refugee Crisis Books
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“Sharp, moving...Wamariya and her co-author, Elizabeth Weil...describe Wamariya’s idyllic early childhood in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, and the madness that followed with an analytic eye and, at times, a lyrical honesty....” -New York Times Book Review
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Christian Nationalism Books
The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why
"With understated humility, The Great Emergence unpacks the chaos of contemporary cultural upheaval and the religious consequences of the changes we now face. After reading these pages, neither the church nor the world looks the same." -Diana Butler Bass, author
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Christian Nationalism Articles
The Growing Anti-Democratic Threat of Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
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Refugee Crisis Articles
The hands that make a home
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The Drug War Movies
The House I Live In
“From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.”
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Christian Nationalism Books
The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values
"This is a fascinating look inside a world that's a mystery to non-evangelicals like me. But it's also something I didn't expect: Funny and moving. This book will be read for years as an explanation of… the political rise and spiritual fall of an entire movement in 21st century America." -Tom Nichols
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Refugee Crisis Movies
The Land Between
An intimate insight into the hidden and desperate lives of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in the mountains of northern Morocco.
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Incarceration Articles
The latest articles via Equal Justice Initiative
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Incarceration Articles
The latest articles via The Bail Project
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Refugee Crisis Books
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World
“A heart-rending read that illuminates the plight of unaccompanied minors forced to leave their homes and loved ones. It is beautifully written in simple, accessible prose. Rarely does Passarlay display self-pity and his fierce intelligence is apparent throughout. He also sheds light on the nefarious world of the smugglers who treat their human cargo with so little compassion....A testament to the courage of all those fleeing conflict in search of safety.” -The Independent
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Christian Nationalism Books
The Myth of Colorblind Christians
"Religious history at its best. An immensely clarifying book, it should be required reading for all who seek to understand white evangelicals’ fraught engagement with race over the past half century." -Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
The New Evangelicals
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
The New Evangelicals on IG
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Incarceration Books
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter.” —Ibram X. Kendi, The New York Times
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Refugee Crisis Books
The New Odyssey
"A deeply reported account… Kingsley gives a sympathetic and often damning portrayal of the extraordinary risks and efforts that so many refugees have taken to find a new life. He puts a human face on the hyper-politicized refugee crisis while conveying the magnitude of the crisis."― The Washington Post
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Economic Inequality Movies
The One Percent
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The Drug War Podcasts
The Paradox of Psychedelics
Lessons with Sam Harris, where he explores how profound psychedelic experiences can open a door to meditation—and, subsequently, distract from the deeper insights on offer.
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Incarceration Movies
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
“A cinematic journey through a series of seemingly ordinary American landscapes, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes excavates the hidden world of the modern prison system and explores lives outside the gates affected by prisons." –PBS
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Coffee Inequality Articles
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
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Incarceration Articles
The Reform Library
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Refugee Crisis Articles
The Refugee Project: facts, stories, and more
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Refugee Crisis Books
The Refugees
"Stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country... Nguyen's narrative style-restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of The Sympathizer--is well suited for portraying tentative states"- The New Yorker
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Incarceration Organizations
The Sentencing Project
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Incarceration Take Action!
The Sentencing Project Shares Action Steps
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
The Truth behind Cheap Coffee w/ Karl Weinhold
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Economic Inequality Articles
The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it
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The Drug War Books
The War on Drugs: A Failed Experiment
“A criminal prosecutor discusses the illegal drug trade and the failure of the so-called “War on Drugs” to stop it. Mallea approaches this issue from a variety of points of view, offering insight into the history of drug use and abuse in the twentieth century; the pharmacology of illegal drugs; the economy of the illegal drug trade; and the complete lack of success that the war on drugs has had on drug cartels and the drug supply. She also looks ahead and discusses what can and is being done in Canada, the U.S., and the rest of the world to move on from the “war” and find better ways to address the issue of illegal drugs and their distribution, use, and abuse.” – from the Publisher
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The Drug War Articles
“The War on Drugs, Explained”
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Refugee Crisis Articles
This Billion-Dollar Founder Says Hiring Refugees Isn't a Political Act
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Coffee Inequality, The Drug War Books
This Is Your Mind on Plants
“Blending artful exposition of the evolution and neurochemistry of botanical drugs, erudite history, and (usually) precise and evocative prose, this is an insightful take on plants’ beguiling sway over the human psyche.” -Publishers Weekly
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Incarceration Movies
Time
Time is a 2020 American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for engaging in an armed bank robbery.
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Christian Nationalism Articles
Timeline of Abstinence-Only Education in U.S. Classroms
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Christian Nationalism Articles
To End Sexual Abuse in Churches, Dismantle Purity Culture
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The Drug War Articles
“To truly reimagine safety, we must end the war on drugs”
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Economic Inequality Articles
Transcript: Future of Work: The Challenge of Economic Inequality
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The Drug War Movies
Trip of Compassion
“I first watched “Trip of Compassion” about six months ago, when I was sent a link to a private video. The film had been broadcast once on Israeli television, but it wasn’t distributed or available anywhere else. This documentary affected me so deeply (and immediately) that I flew to Tel Aviv, met the filmmakers, and offered to help launch the film digitally worldwide for free. Everything I am doing for this film is 100% pro bono, and all proceeds go to the filmmakers.” - Tim Ferriss
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Coffee Inequality Books
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
"An exhaustive, admirably ambitious examination of coffee's global impact, from its roots in 15th-century Ethiopia to its critical role in shaping the nations of Central and Latin America...Should be read by anyone curious about what goes into their daily cup of Java." -Kirkus
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Refugee Crisis Organizations
UNHCR
Modern books about refugees you need to know about ->
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Refugee Crisis Articles
UNHCR: A record 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide
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Incarceration Books
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Danielle Sered provocatively offers and backs up a vision that actually promotes real healing for crime survivors and improves community safety. A must-read for anyone who truly wants to dismantle mass incarceration." ―Nick Turner
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The Drug War Articles
Uprooting the Drug War
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Economic Inequality Articles
US Income Inequality Rose to Record During Biden’s First Year
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Vera Espindola Rafael on Markets in Producing Countries
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The Drug War Articles
“Viewing addiction as a brain disease promotes social injustice”
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Christian Nationalism Books
Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence
This book historicizes the contemporary purity movement by examining how earlier movements established the rhetorical and moral frameworks utilized by the leading purity organizations, True Loves Waits and Silver Ring Thing. This historical investigation reveals that purity work over the last two centuries has developed in concert with widespread fears of changing traditional gender roles and sexual norms, national decline, and global apocalypse.
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Warsan Shire releases her first full collection of poetry
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Warsan Shire’s Portraits of Somalis in Exile
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Refugee Crisis Articles
Watch the movements of refugees around the world from 2000-2015
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Refugee Crisis Books
We are displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
“A stirring and timely book that strips the political baggage from the words 'migrant' and 'refugee,' telling the deeply personal stories of displacement and disruption that were lived by Yousafzai and nine other girls. ... [In] all these accounts, hope emerges as a kind of belligerent reaction to pain and loss." -The New York Times Book Review
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Incarceration Books
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“In her new book, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us Mariame Kaba demonstrates the ways that discipline—in intellect, in practice, in relationship—leads not to despair, but to hope. The far-ranging series of essays and interviews draws on her deep practice as a seasoned organizer who persistently distills the questions surrounding abolition to basic human decisions about the world we want to inhabit and how we will go about building it. Abolition, as Mariame sees and practices, is fundamentally both generous and pragmatic and her writing will move both seasoned abolitionists and those just now asking these questions for the first time to join in her conclusion that ‘your cynicism is unrealistic.” —Danielle Sered
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The Drug War Articles
“We know how George Floyd died. It wasn't from jobs."
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Refugee Crisis Articles
What is a refugee? And other important facts
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Christian Nationalism Articles
What is Christian nationalism?
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Refugee Crisis Articles
What is the definition of a refugee, and what is the UNHCR?
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Refugee Crisis Books
What Is The What
“A testament to the triumph of hope over experience, human resilience over tragedy and disaster.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Refugee Crisis Articles
What is World Refugee Day?
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Economic Inequality Movies
Where to Invade Next
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Christian Nationalism Books
White Christian Privilege
“Her argument is simple: Christianity (particularly the European Protestant strain) has been established as the unacknowledged common culture, not simply religion, of the United States, leading to a situation where anything not white, Western, and Christian is seen as abnormal…This brisk overview is a must-read for those interested in America’s Christian foundation.” -Publishers Weekly
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Christian Nationalism Articles
Why ‘Merry Christmas’ is better than ‘Happy Holidays’ for Americans of all faiths
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Incarceration Articles
Why the ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Author Returned to Prison
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Christian Nationalism Organizations
Word and Way
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Coffee Inequality Podcasts
Yemenia, Bigger than Gesha?
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