Data Points: Racism (Featuring LeRon Barton)
Something Was Wrong · Broken Cycle Media
February 12, 202411m 38s
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Show Notes
Sources:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Racism
- The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women | HISTORY
- UCLA professor’s film documents forced sterilization of Mexican women in late ’60s and early ’70s L.A. | UCLA
- Imprisonment rate of black Americans fell by a third from 2006 to 2018 | Pew Research Center
- 5 eye-opening statistics about minorities in tech | TechRepublic
- US Laws and Policies That Have Kept Black Americans From Owning Homes (businessinsider.com)
- Racial Bias in Healthcare: How Disparities Affect Communities of Color (healthline.com)
- Why Do Black People’s Mental Illnesses Get Misdiagnosed? (healthline.com)
- The National Registry of Exonerations - Exoneration Registry (umich.edu)
- Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf (umich.edu)
- The Black-White Test Score Gap: Why It Persists and What Can Be Done | Brookings
- Ignoring Racism in Schools Actually Increases Prejudice (Opinion) (edweek.org)
Follow and support LeRon Barton and check out some of his incredible work:
- (2023) I Lost White Friends When I Finally Spoke Out: https://www.newsweek.com/lost-white-friends-racism-black-lives-matter-us-1815477
- (2021) What It's Like to be a Black Man in Tech: https://hbr.org/2021/03/what-its-like-to-be-a-black-man-in-tech
- (2018) My Reality: 10 Truths About Being Black in America: https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/my-reality-10-truths-about-being-black-in-america-gmp/