Civil Rights Movements & the Law

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April 20,2021 Derek Chauvin trial verdict
April 20,2021 Derek Chauvin trial verdict
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Follow here for live updates and analysis.
·cnn.com·
April 20,2021 Derek Chauvin trial verdict
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife Tuesday, according to bodycam footage from the officer who fired the shots just minutes before the verdict in George Floyd’s killing was read...
·apnews.com·
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
MONROE, La. (AP) — The most violent videos languished for years, lost or ignored in a digital vault. Louisiana State Police troopers and top brass alike would often look the other way, even as officers took to official messaging channels to banter about their brutality.
·apnews.com·
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
Grassroots Law Project
Grassroots Law Project
Fighting for freedom from racial oppression in the American legal system. Join us.
·grassrootslaw.org·
Grassroots Law Project
Removing Demographic Data Can Make AI Discrimination Worse
Removing Demographic Data Can Make AI Discrimination Worse
A recent study suggests that denying AI decision makers access to sensitive data actually increases the risks of discriminatory outcome. That’s because the AI draws incomplete inferences from the data or partially substitutes by identifying proxies. Providing sensitive data would eliminate this problem, but it is problematic to do so in certain jurisdictions. The authors present work-arounds that may answer the problem in some countries.
·hbr.org·
Removing Demographic Data Can Make AI Discrimination Worse
Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
Take this test to learn more about your own bias and learn how bias is the foundation of stereotypes, prejudice and, ultimately, discrimination.
·tolerance.org·
Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
The racial healing handbook : practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing - Anneliese A. Singh
The racial healing handbook : practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing - Anneliese A. Singh
This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.
·arizona-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com·
The racial healing handbook : practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing - Anneliese A. Singh
dRworksBook
dRworksBook
​Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks) is ​pleased to offer our workbook and other resources. We hope you find the material here useful to you, your organization, and your community.
·dismantlingracism.org·
dRworksBook
Black Lives Matter Toolkits - BLM
Black Lives Matter Toolkits - BLM
Includes: Healing Action Toolkit, Chapter Conflict Resolution Toolkit, Healing Justice Toolkit, Trayvon Taught Me Toolkit: For Black and Non-Black POC Organizers, #TalkAbout Trayvon: A Toolkit for White People, and #TrayvonMeEnseñó.
·blacklivesmatter.com·
Black Lives Matter Toolkits - BLM
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training
Crossroads’ mission is to equip institutions with shared language, frameworks, practices and tools that will assist them in: diagnosing how their institutions are structured to uphold white supremacy culture and systemic racism and; deploying strategies aimed at animating antiracist ways of being that result in racially equitable institutional culture and practices
·crossroadsantiracism.org·
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
OFFICIAL Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America. The book has essays from Hilton Als, Leon Litwack and Congressman John Lewis. In Stock $300 First Edition
·withoutsanctuary.org·
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
LibGuides: Seminar Topical Research Guides:
LibGuides: Seminar Topical Research Guides:
The topical research guides listed here are designed to provide students in specific Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law courses with resources and tools to begin their course-related research. The guides provide information on print and electronic library resources, legal databases, interdisciplinary databases, current awareness resources, and web resources.
·libguides.law.asu.edu·
LibGuides: Seminar Topical Research Guides: