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Video Resources

Video 1: Time 100: Ai-Jen Poo (6:34)
Description: This video is about the work of Ai-Jen Poo, the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. It explains the precarity and devaluation of domestic workers’ jobs. The video explains that domestic workers, who are disproportionately women of color and immigrants, are excluded from some of the most basic labor protection laws--protection from discrimination and sexual harassment.

Video 2: The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Explained (3:15)
Description: This video by Vox shows how the institution of education feeds racial disparities in another institution, law, through the school-to-prison pipeline. The video explains the history of the policies and practices that have led to the school-to-prison pipeline and what some schools are doing to try to combat this trend.

Audio Resources

Audio 1: Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why (12:10)
Description: NPR and ProPublica report on the high rate of maternal mortality in the United States, especially among African American mothers. They use the story of the death of Shalon Irving, a highly educated Black woman, to illustrate how the institution of medicine fails women of color.