11 THINGS TO DO BESIDES SAY ‘THIS HAS TO STOP’ IN THE WAKE OF POLICE BRUTALITY
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This article by Brittany Wong following the tragic May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer starts out saying "Want to end police brutality against Black people? To paraphrase Angela Davis, it’s not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be anti-racist."  It then offer 11 things you can do.

163 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC’S WRITING ON RACE AND RACISM IN AMERICA
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/613057/
This link points to a collection of articles "on race and racism that spans The Atlantic’s lifetime—from our founding, in 1857, to the present day. In it you’ll find historical works from the archive, as well as more recent stories that provide critical analysis to contextualize the importance of a given event, policy, or era."   This is an in-dept collection. Take a look.

25 MOST SEGREGATED CITIES IN THE USA - 2019 ARTICLE
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/20/detroit-chicago-memphis-most-segregated-cities-america-housing-policy/39703787/
Is your city included in this "most segregated" cities list?  Read the article in  USA Today

6 DEGREES DICTIONARY - 12 WORDS REDEFINED
https://www.6degreesto.com/dictionary/
From the web site: "The 6 Degrees Dictionary, a new project of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, offers a user’s guide to inclusion. We start with 12 words, the currency of so much disagreement and misunderstanding, and recast them to provoke and inspire."  These 12 words are central to much of what is taking place in the world of 2018. Take a look.

9 WAYS POVERTY HURTS EDUCATION - MERCY HOUSING BLOG ARTICLE
https://mercyhousingblog.org/2020/09/9-ways-poverty-hurts-education/
From the article: "Experiencing poverty isn’t good for a students’ education… this might sound obvious but poverty and education are treated as two entirely separate issues all too often—they’re not. Poverty is a complex issue, but education is an easy way for you to get involved and help your community with this issue. Here are nine reasons why poverty and education need to be in the same conversation:" Read more. 

ADDRESSING WEALTH INEQUALITY IN AMERICA - NINE CHARTS FROM URBAN INSTITUTE AND POLICY CHANGE RECOMMENDATIONS
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
From the website: "Wealth inequality is higher in the United States than in other developed countries and has risen for much of the past 60 years. As shown in the Urban Institute’s recently updated Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America, white families’ average wealth was more than $1 million higher than that of Black families and Hispanic families in 2022. Racial wealth inequities have persisted for generations, reflecting the long-standing effects of racist policies, not individual intentions or deficits. Addressing these deeply rooted inequities requires bold solutions and cross-sector collaboration."  Take time to view the charts and policy recommendations.

A HISTORY OF RACE AND RACISM IN AMERICA, IN 24 CHAPTERS
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/books/review/a-history-of-race-and-racism-in-america-in-24-chapters.html
In this New York Times book review section the writer profiles some of the "most influential books on race and the black experience published in the United States for each decade of the nation’s existence — a history of race through ideas, arranged chronologically on the shelf." Read the article and the books.

A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ABOUT REDLINING IN AMERICAN CITIES
https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/search?q=redlining
In several articles on the MappingforJustice blog links pointing to articles about redlining have been added at the bottom over the past few years. Add these to your research.

ADDITIONAL BLACK HISTORY RESOURCES IN ANOTHER PART OF THIS LIBRARY  - CLICK HERE

ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY WITH STATE TAX POLICY
https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/advancing-racial-equity-with-state-tax-policy
From the article: "States and localities could do more to help undo the harmful legacies of past racism and the damage caused by continuing racial bias and discrimination. If state budget and tax policies were better designed to address these harms and create more opportunities for people of color, state economies would be more equitable and likely also would be stronger, which in turn could benefit many state residents of all backgrounds."

ALL ABOUT POVERTY - FROM WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
Creating a sophisticated understanding of poverty is an essential part of finding solutions.  This Wikipedia is a valuable resource.

AMERICAN APARTHEID: SEGREGATION AND THE MAKING OF THE UNDERCLASS (BOOK)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2781105
I read this book by Douglas Massey in the 1990s and it provides interesting ideas on why some sections of a city are more isolated and under served than others. Worth reading.

AMERICA'S HIDDEN WATER POVERTY IS COSTING THE U.S. ECONOMY OVER $8.5 BILLION EACH YEAR
https://spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-exclusives/how-americas-hidden-water-poverty-is-costing-the-u-s-economy-over-8-5-billion-each-year/
This 2022 Spotlight on Poverty & Opportunity article focuses on a hidden crisis that affects over 2.2 million people who live without running water or proper sanitation at home.  Read the article.

AMERICA NOT ONLY PLACE WITH HISTORY OF OPPRESSION. THIS FROM NEW ZEALAND
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-06-2020/the-whakapapa-of-police-violence/
This is a powerful article relating the police killing of George Floyd in America in 2020 to centuries of oppression of the M?ori  people in New Zealand. 

AMERICAN DREAM IN CRISIS - BLOG ARTICLES FOLLOWING ROBERT D. PUTNAM BOOK
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This link points to a series of blog articles on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC blog, responding to Dr. Robert D Putnam's book Our Kids: The American Dream  in Crisis

AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION - TRIBAL LIBRARY RESOURCES
https://ailanet.org/tribal-library-resources/
This library offers and extensive list of libraries where you can find information related to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Information is relevant to anyone interested in the development of programs to improve Indian library, cultural, and informational services in school, public, and research libraries on reservations. 

AMERICAN POVERTY IS MOVING FROM THE CITIES TO THE SUBURBS
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/american-poverty-is-moving-from-the-cities-to-the-suburbs
2019 report in The Economist describes growing poverty in the suburbs that is more White and Hispanic than African American.  Requires registration to read.

AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL APARTHEID, BY JONATHAN KOZOL
http://gayleturner.net/kozol.html
Jonathan Kozol is one of the leading voices calling attention to the inequality dividing the rich and poor in America. He is the author of many books, including  Savage Inequalities  and  Amazing Grace . This article was adapted from  The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.

AMERICA'S INCARCERATION CRISIS
https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-americas-incarceration-crisis
This Nov. 2018 New  Yorker magazine article features a series of articles "reporting on the problem of mass incarceration and the experiences of people inside the prison system" of the United States. 

AS AMERICA CHANGES, SOME ANXIOUS WHITES FEEL LEFT BEHIND
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/race-rising-anxiety-white-america
This article talks about "Demographic shifts rippling across the nation that are fueling fears among White Americans that their culture and standing are under threat."  Important to  understand this as the demographic shifts grow over the next 20 years.

BASIC NEEDS AND COVID19 - BUILDING PUBLIC WILL TO MAKE NEEDED CHANGES
https://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Basic-Needs-COVID-19
This is an article on the Community Commons web site, which uses data mapping to help create a spatial understanding of problems that affect people in many places.  It invites responses.  

BEEGLE POVERTY IMMERSION INSTITUTE - 
https://www.combarriers.com/index.php/blog-home-page
From the website:  In the Communication Across Barriers website's introduction it says, "Dr. Beegle is dedicated to broadening and improving opportunities for people who live in the war zone of poverty and to assist communities and organizations to "fight poverty, not the people who live in it."  The Poverty Institute is part of the consulting services offered by Dr. Beegle.  This link points to blog articles on the site.

BEST PRACTICES FOR INVESTIGATING REFUGEE ISSUES - 2022 ARTICLE
https://gijn.org/2022/05/31/9-best-practices-for-investigating-refugee-issues/
This is an article posted in the Global Investigative Journalism Network.  War and climate change have led to more than 31 million refugees and asylum seekers, with more to come in future years. This article shows 9 strategies for investigating this issue. 

BLACK WEALTH DATA CENTER 
https://blackwealthdata.org/
This site, launched in 2022 by Bloomberg Philanthropies, has a library of resources and data providing information about racial wealth equity in America. 

BLACK YOUTH PROJECT 100 (BYP100)
https://www.byp100.org/
From the web site: "BYP100 is a national member-based organization of 18-35 year old activists and organizers creating freedom and justice for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens." This link points to the Chicago chapter.

BLACK MEN AND BOYS COMMISSION LAUCHED IN 2022 - WHAT SHOULD THEY PROPOSE? 32 IDEAS FOR STARTERS
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/03/14/what-should-the-new-commission-on-the-social-status-of-black-men-and-boys-propose-here-are-32-ideas-for-starters/
This Brookings article talks about the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, which was created by Congress in Aug 2022. It offers 32 ideas that the Commission might consider. 

BOOK "EXAMINING THE 'AFTERLIFE' OF INCARCERATION"
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980671402/out-of-prison-but-still-trapped-examining-the-afterlife-of-incarceration
This link points to a NPR interview with University of Chicago professor Reuben Jonathan Miller, who has written a new book (2021) titled "Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the After Life of Mass Incarceration".  Since so many ex-offenders concentrate in high poverty areas it's critically important that policy makers, philanthropists and others understand this issue.

BREAKING CYCLE OF POVERTY IN AMERICA - BLOG
https://www.combarriers.com/blog-home-page
This blog is titled, "Communication Across Barriers, Inc." and is written by Dr. Donna Beegle, as part of the consulting were she does to help entire communities break the cycle of poverty in America.  

BUILDING CITIES OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL - 2020 NYTIMES
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-us-cities-inequality.html
This May 15, 2020 New York Times editorial is titled The City We Need and provides an in-depth analysis of the growing inequality and race/class segregation in cities across the US and concludes saying . "The halves depend on one another. The rich need labor; the poor need capital. And the city needs both. Reducing segregation requires affluent Americans to share, but not necessarily to sacrifice. Building more diverse neighborhoods, and disconnecting public institutions from private wealth, will ultimately enrich the lives of all Americans — and make the cities in which they live and work a model again for the world."  This article is loaded with links to additional reading. 

BUILDING JUSTICE - MULTI PART SERIES BY "CITYLIMITS"
https://citylimits.org/series/building-justice/
From the web site: "Over 16 weeks, City Limits and Enterprise Community Partners featured prominent New Yorkers’ views on how race and housing policy intersect to create a legacy each of us must confront, and the way forward we should take together."

BUILT TO KEEP BLACK FROM WHITE: THE STORY OF DETROIT'S "WAILING WALL"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/built-keep-black-white-story-behind-detroit-s-wailing-wall-n1274439
This is a long, in-depth, article about racial segregation in Detroit, Michigan, and in other cities throughout the USA.  

BY MANY MEASURES, MILWAUKEE IS TOUGHEST CITY FOR BLACKS - ARTICLE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-milwaukee-toughest-city-for-blacks-20160816-story.html
Chicago Tribune article from August 2016.

CAN CHICAGO'S POOREST 'PULL THEMSELVES UP BY THEIR BOOTSTRAPS'?
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170203/downtown/can-chicagos-poorest-pull-themselves-up-by-their-bootstraps/
The answer is "no", or "not often" according to this 2017 article in DNAInfo. 

CATALOGUING THE POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRUMP BUDGET
https://democracycollaborative.org/learn/publication/cataloguing-potential-damage-inclusive-community-development-trump-budget
From the website: "The Democracy Collaborative is deeply concerned that the antipathy or outright hostility of both the current administration and the current Congressional majority to the federal infrastructure of community development will translate into irreparable harm to the low income communities, especially communities of color, who continue to struggle with the legacy of decades of disinvestment, discrimination, and dispossession. We believe—along with the rest of the community development field—that robust, effective federal action is necessary to expand the access of marginalized communities to affordable housing, good jobs, and an equitable share in America's prosperity. In order to help communities across the country—both rural and urban—speak up in a moment in which the administration has made clear its intentions to scale back or dismantle these key federal frameworks, we will be tracking the new federal attacks on inclusive community development here, along with state-level measures enabled and encouraged by the new federal context."

CAUSES OF INNER CITY POVERTY - EIGHT HYPOTHESES - PDF
https://www.huduser.gov/Periodicals/CITYSCPE/VOL3NUM3/article3.pdf
This is a paper by Michael B. Teitz, Public Policy Institute of California and University of California, Berkeley and Karen Chapple, University of California, Berkeley 

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH EQUITY - DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
https://healthequitychicago.org/
From the web site: "The goal of the Center for Community Health Equity is to improve community health outcomes and contribute to the elimination of health inequities in Chicago. We are a jointly run Center, co-founded by DePaul and Rush in 2015. Our work is interdisciplinary - linking sociologists, geographers, and other social scientists with health care professionals.  We all share a desire to conduct meaningful research that contributes to social justice in our communities."

CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY (CLASP)
https://www.clasp.org/
An organization of program staff whose work is concentrated on family policy and access to civil legal assistance for low-income families. Family policy projects include welfare reform, workforce development, child care, child support enforcement, child welfare, couples and marriage policy, and reproductive health and teen parents. Civil legal assistance projects include "general counsel" to LSC-funded programs and the Project for the Future of Equal Justice.

CHASING THE DREAM: POVERTY AND OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/
From the web site: "Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America is WNET’s multi-platform public media Initiative that aims to provide a deeper understanding of the impact of poverty on American society: what life is like below the poverty line, its impact on our economic security and on our children, and what has happened to our age-old dream of striving for a better life. We’ll also highlight solutions: what has worked – and what is working to bring people out of poverty – and what lessons we can and must learn for the future."

CHICAGO IS STILL SO SEGREGATED BECAUSE ALDERMEN ARE TOO POWERFUL, STUDY SAYS
https://blockclubchicago.org/2018/07/12/chicago-is-still-so-segregated-because-aldermen-are-too-powerful-study-says/
From web site: "A new study claims aldermen who have far-reaching powers to block affordable housing in the city are continuing racial segregation in Chicago. The study, called “A City Fragmented,” was created by the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. It details the power aldermen have to block — or allow — affordable housing developments and how this has impacted racial divides in Chicago over the decades."

CHILD POVERTY IN US (2016) - SEVEN THINGS TO KNOW
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/seven-things-you-should-know-about-childhood-poverty
This article provides information about poverty in the US that needs to be shared, understood and responded to in local, state and national level organizations.

CHILD WELL-BEING IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES – UNICEF REPORT
https://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/child-well-being-in-advanced-economies-a-comparative-overview/
This is one of many resources on the LearningChange web site. This is a UNICEF report presenting "the latest available overview of child well-being in 29 of the world’s most advanced economies. Five dimensions of children’s lives have been considered: material well-being, health and safety, education, behaviors and risks, and housing and environment."  The United States ranks 26th out of 29 countries.

CLASS DIVIDE IN AMERICA - WBEZ INTERVIEW W RICHARD REEVES 2017
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From the web site: "Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, wrote Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What To Do About It." Listen to the interview.

CLOSING RACIAL WEALTH GAP IN US - 2019 ARTICLE
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/the-amazing-resiliency-of-white-wealth
This article is titled  White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Is Old, Deep, and Nearly Unshakable   and shows how networks of community support have contributed to the accumulated wealth of White Americans but not Black Americans.

CLOSING THE OPPORTUNITY GAP. A PROJECT OF THE SAGUARO SEMINAR
http://cfon.org/assets/2020/02/2016-Opportunity-Gap-Working-Group-Report.pdf
From the web site "Since 1996, Professor Putnam’s The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, a research initiative that brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal, has produced projects that have focused on expanding what we know about our levels of trust and community engagement and on developing strategies and efforts to increase this engagement. In 2015, the Seminar launched the Closing the Opportunity Gap initiative, based on the information in this PDF. The initiative convened five working groups of roughly a dozen of the country’s leading experts in each of five areas: family and parenting, early childhood, K-12 education, community institutions, and “on-ramps,” like community college or apprenticeships."

CLOSING THE OPPORUNITY GAP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN - 2023 REPORT
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26743/interactive/
This 2023 report from The National Academies (Sciences, Engineering, Medicine) says "Before they are even born, many young children in the United States face unequal opportunity that can have a lasting impact on the future of academic, health, and economic outcomes. These disparities--known as the opportunity gap--are rooted in an  unequal distribution of resources based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other factors. Today, the opportunity gap for young children manifests as poverty, food insecurity, inadequate access to health care and well-funded quality schools, and exposure to violence."  Read the full report. 

COLOR (THE) OF WEALTH - CHICAGO
https://colorofwealth.org/
Visit this website of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy and view research that "examines wealth by race, ethnicity and national origin in the context of specific locations and histories.  The Color of Wealth studies have been conducted in seven metropolitan regions in the  United States (as of June 2024).  Chicago is one of the seven.

COMBATING INEQUALITY: RETHINKING POLICIES TO REDUCE INEQUALITY IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES
https://www.piie.com/events/combating-inequality-rethinking-policies-reduce-inequality-advanced-economies
From the website: "The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) held a major conference on "Combating Inequality: Rethinking Policies to Reduce Inequality in Advanced Economies," on October 17–18, 2019".  Video and conference presentations are available at this link. 

COMBATTING APPI HATE - COMMITTEE OF 100 RESOURCES
https://www.committee100.org/newsletter/
The April and May 2021 issues of the Committee of 100 share numerous resources related to combatting Asian and Pacific Islander (APPI) racial discrimination. From the website: "The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts."

COMMITMENT TO REDUCING INEQUALITY INDEX - OXFAM
https://www.inequalityindex.org/#/
From the web site: "The Development Finance International Group (DFI) is a non-profit capacity-building, advocacy, advisory and research group that works with more than 50 governments and international organizations worldwide. Oxfam is an international confederation working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries to end the injustices that cause poverty. We believe inequality is far from inevitable. It is a policy choice and governments have considerable powers to reduce the gap between the rich and poor in their countries. We developed this index to measure and monitor government policy commitments to reducing inequality, but also to offer a robust, evidence-based alternative to other existing income and wealth measuring systems which are sorely lacking in data coverage and quality."

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OPPORTUNITY NETWORK - READING LIST
https://cfon.org/research-and-resources/
From the web site: "The Community Foundation Opportunity Network, launched in Summer 2016, includes 40 leading foundations from every region in the US.  This is a national leadership and action network of community foundations committed to narrowing the youth opportunity gap.  Participating foundations serve communities with a spectrum of geographic, demographic, racial, and socioeconomic diversity."

COST OF POVERTY STUDY - MIAMI/DADE COUNTY (1995)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160911054413/http://pvmm.com/cd/sw/CostOfPovertyDadeCounty.pdf
This is one of two cost-of-poverty reports that I've had hard copies of since the late 1990s. These show that just creating more hope and opportunity in high poverty areas can lower the costs of poverty in these areas. 

COST OF POVERTY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC COST OF POVERTY IN ONTARIO (2008)
https://ccednet-rcdec.ca/resource/the-cost-of-poverty-an-analysis-of-the-economic-cost-of-poverty-in-ontario/
To help shape the government’s strategy, the Ontario Association of Food Banks has collaborated with a group of eminent thinkers to produce the first ever estimates of the costs of poverty to all Ontarians. The focus on these costs leads naturally to a review of the kinds of policies necessary to bring them down.  This research was updated in 2019 - open this link.

COST OF POVERTY STUDY - TORONTO 2016 (PDF)
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This is a review of an updated 2016 cost of poverty in Toronto, Canada study which was first done in 2008. 

COST OF POVERTY STUDY 1990 - SANDTOWN-BALTIMORE
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED458312.pdf
I first looked at this DevPlan report in the mid 1990s, showing that high costs of poverty are concentrated in some neighborhoods of big cities, not all. Just remove some of the conditions that remove "hope and opportunity" can lower costs.

COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS - 2018 KEY FINDINGS
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/resources/2018-county-health-rankings-key-findings-report
From the web site: "The County Health Rankings show that where we live matters to health. This year, we bring new analyses that show meaningful health gaps persist not only by place, but also among racial and ethnic groups. These gaps are largely the result of differences in opportunities in the places where we live. And, these differences disproportionately affect people of color. Discriminatory practices and structural and institutional policies, such as unfair bank lending practices and property tax-based school funding formulas, contribute to the types of racial disparities illustrated in this report."

COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE
https://courageousconversation.com/
From the web site: "Founded by Glenn E. Singleton in 1992, Pacific Educational Group is committed to achieving racial equity in education. We engage in sustained partnerships with educational organizations to transform beliefs, behaviors, and results so people of all races can achieve at their highest levels and live their most empowered and powerful lives. COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION™ is our award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue. Through our Framework for Systemic Racial Equity Transformation, PEG is dedicated to helping educators address persistent racial disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively."

DESIGN THINKING IS A REBRAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY
https://dabuzon.medium.com/design-thinking-is-a-rebrand-for-white-supremacy-b3d31aa55831
This article talks about the colonial and capitalist roots and influence of "design thinking" and talks of how it's exclusiveness and entry barriers support White Supremacy and continued inequality between affluent and poor.  

DIGITAL MAPPING OF RACISM AND SEGREGATION - 2017 ARTICLE
click here
This Forbes article includes links to many sites which are mapping racism and segregation in America.

DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA - PODCAST
https://hardcandy.libsyn.com/white-guilt-and-black-disparity-part-1
This podcast titled "Hard Candy @ Fruit Snacks" features Gloria Harrison, a Black women, and Carrie Clifford, a white woman.  I first met both of them in the mid 1990s when they volunteered to lead a video making club at the non-school Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program.  

DISRUPTING IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS AND OTHER FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION TO IMPROVE ACCESS, ACHJIEVEMENT AND WELLNESS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR
https://sites.ed.gov/whblackeducation/files/2016/10/Disrupting-Implicit-Bias-FINAL.pdf
This illustrated presentation provides an understanding of implicit racial bias and can help us better understand how institutional racism and other forms of bias affect educational experiences of students from marginalized communities. Solutions are provided.

DIVERSITY & SEGREGATION IN US CITIES
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/
This article looks at diversity in cities and segregation at the neighborhood level and ranks cities from highest to lowest. Includes maps.

DIVIDED NATION: RURAL VS URBAN AMERICA; RICH VS POOR AMERICA
https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2016/10/divided-nation-rural-vs-urban-america.html
This is article from MappingforJustice blog (a Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC site) where I've been aggregating links to articles related to race and class divides in America.

DOES WHERE YOU LIVE AFFECT HOW LONG YOU LIVE?
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html
From the web site: "A ZIP code is 5 numbers meant to give mail to people—not indicate how long they live. Unfortunately, many United States cities and counties have significant gaps in life expectancy, often for residents just a few miles apart. Explore how life expectancy in America compares with life expectancy in your area, and resources to help illuminate these disparities and enable everyone to have the opportunity to live a healthier life."

ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT
https://economichardship.org/
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project was launched "to force this country’s (the USA) crisis of poverty and economic insecurity to  the center of the national  conversation."

ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT
https://www.economicsecurityproject.org/
From the website: "The Economic Security Project challenges this status quo by catalyzing ideas that build economic power for all Americans. We serve as convener, strategist and funder. We disburse grants, identify gaps, develop communications research to inform the movements and coordinate events and convenings to encourage investment and action from others. We aim to support the emerging leaders in the economic justice field and ensure they have the networks, know-how, and money to succeed."

ENDURING CHALLENGE OF POVERTY IN AMERICA - PDF
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/CI_IncomeInequality_Cytron.pdf
From the web site: "In 2006, the Community Affairs Offices of the Federal Reserve System partnered with the Brookings Institution to examine the issue of concentrated poverty. The resulting report,  The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case Studies  from Communities Across the U.S. , profiles 16 high-poverty communities from across the country, including immigrant gateway, Native American, urban, and rural communities. Through these case studies, the report contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of poor people living in poor communities, and the policies that will be needed to bring both into the economic mainstream.

END POVERTY IN AMERICA - 
https://endpovertyusa.org/state-facts/
This website has extensive resources focused on ending poverty in America.  This link points to a section with poverty data for each state.  Read the book "Poverty, By America" by Matthew Desmond. 

ENVISIONING EQUITY - RESOURCES
https://envisioningequitychi.org/resources/
From the web site: "In order to have conversations about making our organizations more equitable, we need to come to some agreement about the concepts and language we are using in these conversations. This site provides some resources to help us do that."

ESCAPING THE CYCLE OF SCARCITY - NEW THINKING ABOUT HELPING POOR PEOPLE
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This New York Times opinion piece offers new ways to think of what causes poverty and what solutions might help people escape it. From the article: "Now Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, and Eldar Shafir, a psychologist at Princeton, propose a way to explain why the poor are less future-oriented than those with more money. According to these authors, one explanation for bad decisions is scarcity — not of money, but of what the authors call bandwidth: the portion of our mental capacity that we can employ to make decisions."  This article also points to a web site titled  42 Ideas to do Good

EVERY KNOWN LYNCHING THAT TOOK PLACE IN AMERICA FROM THE EARLY 1800S - PLOTTED ON MAP
https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/context/lynching.html
This website is a historical record and a teaching tool. Learn how lynching began as a form of self-appointed justice in local communities in the 1800s, then in the 1870s turned into a terrorist tactic used by white supremacists.

FERGUSON SYLLABUS AND THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA
https://clalliance.org/blog/ferguson-syllabus-power-social-media/
From the web site: "This article is the first part in a multi-part series about participants in the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities conference. This series features public intellectuals in the academy discussing digital literacy issues."

FEW METRO AREAS MADE PROGRESS AGAINST POVERTY IN 2013 - 2014 REPORT
https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-census-data-show-few-metro-areas-made-progress-against-poverty-in-2013/
This Brookings.edu article reviews findings from 2013 American Community Survey data on residents living below the federal poverty line. Search for other articles similar to this on the Brookings.edu site."

FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON (ST. LOUIS) - ACTION PLAN
https://forwardthroughferguson.org/
This web site shares the report produce by the commission that investigated the Ferguson, MO riots of 2014 in an effort to engage a larger portion of the St. Louis area in solving the problem.

FROM BIRTH TO DEATH: BLACK AMERICANS AND A LIFETIME OF DISPARITIES - 2023 REPORT
https://apnews.com/article/from-birth-to-death-series-2b2f56844fe6f309be541b45aef2e281
From the website: "The Associated Press spent the past year exploring how the legacy of racism in America has laid the foundation for the health inequities that Black people face."  This is a multi part report.  

FROM POVERTY TO POWER - HOW ACTIVE CITIZENS AND EFFECTIVE STATES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
https://oxfamapps.org/fp2p/why-rethinking-how-we-work-on-market-systems-and-the-private-sector-is-really-hard/
This website could fit in the philanthropy section of this web site, or in the social entrepreneur section.  Since it focuses on poverty and international development, it's placed in this section of the library. This is a blog based on the book titled From Poverty to Power, that "argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. The forces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states." Subscribe and read the articles. 

GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR HAS INCREASED MORE QUICKLY IN THE US THAN IN EUROPE - 2023 REPORT
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/242756/gap-between-rich-poor-increased-more/
This report from London's Imperial College Business School compares the wealth gap in the United States and in European countries and shows impact of rising stock market prices and growing gap between income. Recommendations for policy makers are included. 

GC WEALTH PROJECT OF STONE CENTER ON SOCIAO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
https://wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/index.html
This website, launched in June 2023, is "organized around two main components:  a data warehouse of gathered and novel data that can be visualized in a variety of ways through an interactive dashboard, and a digital library of research on wealth inequality."

GENERATIONAL POVERTY - TRYING TO SOLVE BIG CITY PROBLEM
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/09/17/generational-poverty/
This article take place in Philadelphia, but could be Chicago and many other places where children are being raised by parents and grand parents who have also lived in deep poverty.

GLOBAL INEQUALITY—A NEW APPROACH FOR THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/book_excerpt_global_inequality_new_approach_for_age_of_globalization
This article on the Stanford Social Innovation Review highlights a new book by international economist Branko Milanovic, focusing on global inequality.   Worth reading if looking for strategies to fight inequality in America.

GLOBAL WEALTH DATABOOK
https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/studies-publications.html
From the Credit Suisse web site: This report "brings together all available data on household wealth within countries all over the world. It tells us how much wealth there is, and where it is. This year, by incorporating historical data sets too, we can better understand how the household wealth distribution has been changing over time." Visit the site to find summaries, previous year's reports, more. Note: scroll down on this page to find link to this report.

HEARTLAND ALIANCE POVERTY IN ILLINOIS REPORT
https://www.heartlandalliance.org/heartland-alliance-2020-poverty-report/
The Heartland Alliance web site includes a "well being" report Index that "highlights counties that are experiencing particularly negative conditions and trends on four key indicators: poverty, unemployment, teen births, and high school graduation. This report is done annually.

HEARTLAND ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN NEEDS & HUMAN RIGHTS
https://www.heartlandalliance.org/
From the web site:  "Heartland Alliance, one of the world’s leading anti-poverty organizations, works in communities in the U.S. and abroad to serve those who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety. It provides a comprehensive array of services in the areas of health, housing, jobs and justice – and leads state and national policy efforts, which target lasting change for individuals and society." 

HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE - READ ABOUT SUNDOWN TOWNS IN AMERICA
https://justice.tougaloo.edu/
This quote from the website sums up its purpose: "Telling the truth about the past helps cause justice in the present. Achieving justice in the present helps  us tell the truth about the past."  "Sundown Towns" are places that are all white on purpose. View the research and map on the website. 

HOW A ‘REVERSE GREAT MIGRATION’ IS RESHAPING U.S. CITIES
https://archive.curbed.com/2018/7/31/17632092/black-chicago-neighborhood-great-migration
This July 2018 article describes the exodus of African Americans from Chicago and other cities since 2000 and discusses reasons.

HOW AMERICA’S MAYORS ARE TAKING THE LEAD ON INCOME INEQUALITY
https://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-mayors-addressing-income-inequality.html
This 2016 article points to a survey of nearly 90 mayors, showing how they are focusing on many of today's most pressing urban issues.

HOW DO  U.S. STATES MEASURE UP ON CHILD RIGHTS? 2023 REPORT
https://www.hrw.org/feature/2022/09/13/how-do-states-measure-up-child-rights
This UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) report shows that many states fail to live up to key standards set by the CRC. No state received a higher grade than "C".  Most states rated "D" or "F".  

HOW DO WHITE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT BECOMING THE MINORITY WITHOUT BEING CALLED "RACIST"?
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This link points to a Facebook discussion that started on March 28, 2018, which focuses on this topic.  As migration grows throughout the world, caused primarily by war, conflict and climate change, formerly majority White communities are quickly changing to be majority people of color. Those changes are difficult to accept for many. Read the comments and add your own. Point to other places where this is being discussed.

HOW POVERTY CAN FOLLOW CHILDREN INTO ADULTHOOD - PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-poverty-can-follow-children-into-adulthood/
This article talks about how "growing up in a poor household is linked with long-term consequences in educational outcomes, physical health and brain development that can follow a child well into adulthood."

HOW RACE, POWER AND ALDERMANIC PREROGATIVE SHAPE CHICAGO'S NEIGHBORHOODS (PDF)
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From the web site: "In a decades-long practice that has systemically preserved racial segregation across Chicago communities, aldermen calculatingly use their aldermanic prerogative to block affording housing developments, according to a new report released today by the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance and the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law." 

HOW RACIAL AND REGIONAL INEQUALITY AFFECT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY - BROOKINGS EDU. REPORT
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/02/15/how-racial-and-regional-inequality-affect-economic-opportunity/
This article uses maps to show the spatial distribution of the black population across the USA. how it has evolved over time and how this has interacted with economic mobility and U.S. public policy.

HOW THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP HAS EVOLVED -- AND WHY IT PERSISTS 
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2022/how-the-racial-wealth-gap-has-evolved-and-why-it-persists
This October 2022 article posted on the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis website traces the racial wealth gap from 1870 through 2020, showing rapid early progress then stubborn stagnation. 

HOW STRESS AFFECTS RICH AND POOR PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY - BROOKINGS.EDU
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rich-even-have-a-better-kind-of-stress-than-the-poor/
This is another article by Brookings.edu that helps build an  understanding of how inequality and gaps between rich and poor have negative impact on poor people.  

HOW TO AVOID (UNINTENTIONAL) ONLINE RACISM - AND SHUT DOWN OVERT RACISM WHEN YOU SEE IT
https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/how-to-reduce-online-racism/
This article describes "racism as a worldwide issue" and offers an extensive set of guidelines about fighting online racism and includes many useful statistics.  The author writes "the article is for people operating in good faith, who genuinely believe that your race doesn't make you better or worse than any other person."

ILLINOIS POLICE TRAFFIC STOP DATA - WBEZCHICAGO 
https://interactive.wbez.org/traffic-stops/illinois-statewide/
This site provides comprehensive data about police traffic stops in Illinois and shows a growth in racial profiling from early 2000s to 2022.  The site  includes interactive maps. The information is available to others to use.

ILLINOIS POVERTY 2018 UPDATE - FROM HEARTLAND ALLIANCE (PDF)
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From the web site: "Our 2018 Illinois Poverty Update has been released and our findings indicate that millions of people in Illinois are experiencing poverty or are on the cusp. Rooted in inequity, poverty prevents people from meeting basic needs, improving their quality of life, and creates barriers to opportunities including quality education, stable employment, affordable housing and safe neighborhoods.
The fact sheet sheds light on who is most likely to experience poverty in Illinois: Women, people of color, and children, who have the highest poverty rates."

ILLINOIS POVERTY - LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS FACT SHEETS
https://www.heartlandalliance.org/poverty-facts-sheets/
In addition to the Illinois Poverty Update, The Social Impact Research Center at the Heartland Alliance has also released state legislative district poverty fact sheets in PDF format. These releases are the first of a series we will be publishing on poverty in Illinois this year. Download and print fact sheets for your districts and use them to inform your state legislators and advocate for policies that reduce poverty and inequality.

IMPACT OF NEIGHBORHOOD POVERTY - NEXT CITY ARTICLE
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/entry/neighborhood-poverty-savings-inequality
This article refers to a 2015 Pew Charitable Trust report showing the impact of poverty in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty.

INDIGENOUS GENOCIDE IN AMERICA - WHY IT NEVER ENDED - ARTICLE
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/indigenous-genocide-foster-care-icwa
This article by Amelia Mavis Christnot and George Takei provides an in-depth look at a long-lasting, and continuing, genocide against Indigenous people and cultures in America. 

INEQUALITY.IS WEBSITE BRINGS CLARITY TO THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON WAGE AND INCOME INEQUALITY
http://inequality.is/fixable
From the website:  ABOUT INEQUALITY.IS The fact that the United States has become increasingly unequal in terms of income, wages, wealth and opportunity has hit the mainstream and public demands for economic fairness have gone viral. As the economic think tank for the 99%, EPI is eager to seize on this renewed public interest in creating a fair economy, building upon our nearly three decades of objective economic research that has earned us respect and praise across the political spectrum. The Inequality.is website brings clarity to the national dialogue on wage and income inequality, using interactive tools and videos to tell the story of how we arrived at the state of inequality we find today and what can be done to reverse course and ensure workers get their fair share. Help us support this site and future projects by donating to EPI today. Your contribution is tax-deductible and every donation counts.

INSTITUTE FOR HEALING JUSTICE & EQUITY (IHJE) AT ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY
https://ihje.org/
From the website: "The Institute is working to eliminate disparities caused by systemic oppression through systems change and deep community partnership." The Institute's mission focuses on advancing healing justice and equity through research, training, community capacity building, and policy change.  

IN THE SHADOWS OF SLAVERY’S CAPITALISM
https://www.aaihs.org/in-the-shadows-of-slaverys-capitalism/
From the web site: "Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South is part of an increasingly vibrant discussion of capitalism’s relationship to slavery that goes beyond whether capitalism and slavery were like oil and water. Merritt instead argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century American republic, varieties of capitalism grew in dynamic tension with one another. Masterless Men enters that debate from the unlikely angle of poor white southerners."  Read more. Join the discussion. 

INEQUALITY CHRONICLES (THE) - DETAILED EXPLORATIONS OF RACIAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL INEQUITIES
https://placesjournal.org/series/the-inequality-chronicles/
From the web site: "“There are many reasons for our troubles,” wrote historian Jill Lepore in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. “But the deepest reason is inequality: the forms of political, cultural, and economic polarization that have been widening, not narrowing, for decades. Inequality, like slavery, is a chain that binds at both ends.”
“The Inequality Chronicles” features detailed explorations of racial, economic, and social inequities — from historical roots to contemporary effects — in major American cities."  Take time to read the articles.

INEQUALITY.ORG, INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
https://inequality.org/
From the web site: "Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, the site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from students and educators to activists and policy makers.

INMATES RETURNING TO SOCIETY - HUGE CHALLENGE
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0520/US-prison-inmates-returning-to-society-How-will-they-be-received
This Christian Science Monitor article talks about the problems we face with "roughly 700,000 ex-cons are hitting US streets each year" without the skills and work habits needed to find work and avoid returning to prison.

INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY RESEARCH AT NORTHWESTERN
https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/who-we-are/index.html
From the web site:  "The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 at Northwestern University. Our mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the finding widely – to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public."

THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON RACE AND EQUITY 
https://www.raceandequityproject.org/
From the website: "The Investigative Project on Race and Equity trains journalists in data-driven reporting and collaborates with news organizations to uncover systemic racism. Our partnerships add depth to the coverage of underrepresented communities and help build capacity within newsrooms to pursue in-depth projects.  View the 2023 series "Profiled: The State of Traffic Stops in Illinois". 

IS RELIGION THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES? DEBATE THIS.
https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-religion-the-opiate-of-the-masses
This web site offers opinion on both sides of this question, tabulates the numbers, and hopefully stimulates thinking and involvement in movements that reduce social and economic inequality in the US and the world.

IS RELIGION THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES? KARL MARX ARTICLE
https://web.archive.org/web/20180917003049/http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-religion-the-opiate-of-the-masses
This article shows that Karl Marx was not critical of religion, but in its failure to address the root cause of much suffering, which was a result of economic inequality, corporate greed, etc. While Marx wrote more than 175 years ago, the inequality and wealth gaps of 2000s show that we have much to do to make life better for people in poverty living in this world, rather than wait until a rebirth in a spiritual world.

JIM CROW DEBT: hOW BLACK BORROWERS EXPERIENCE STUDENT LOANS
https://edtrust.org/resource/jim-crow-debt/
The Education Trust surveyed nearly 1,300 Black Borrowers from across the nation about Student Debt. This article shares their experiences.   Check out the Data Tools resource page on the EdTrust website, too. 

LATINOS IN THE CHICAGO SUBURBS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (2023 REPORT)
https://www.latinopolicyforum.org/news/press-releases/document/PRESS-RELEASE-8.25_Latinos-in-the-Suburbs.pdf
This is a comprehensive report showing Latino population trends in Chicago suburbs and the city. Compiled by the Latino Policy Forum, Metropolitan Planning Council and Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Find link to full report PDF in this press release.

LIFT HELPS FAMILIES OUT OF POVERTY
https://www.whywelift.org/
From the web site: "LIFT’s mission is to help community members achieve economic stability and well-being. We are working to establish a new standard for holistic and enduring solutions in our country’s fight against poverty."

LOCKED UP: THE PRISON LABOR THAT BUILT BUSINESS EMPIRES (2022 ARTICLE)
https://revealnews.org/podcast/locked-up-the-prison-labor-that-built-business-empires/
This article shows how "Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War (for many decades) - a racist system known as convict leasing."  

LONDON'S POVERTY PROFILE (2011) PDF
https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/
This is an extensive report full of maps and charts. It would be useful to compare poverty reports of big cities in US and other parts of the world with London to understand differences and similarities in problems, root causes and solutions.

LONG TERM STUDY SHOWS IMPACT OF RACE IN AMERICA ON BLACK BOYS
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html
This New York Times 2018 report describes findings of a study of 20 million children. The lead paragraph says "Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping new study that traced the lives of millions of children.'  The article is full of maps and animated charts that highlight key findings of the research.

LOVING CITIES INDEX - CHICAGO 2018 - SCHOTT FOUNDATION REPORT
https://lovingcities.schottfoundation.org/cities/chicago-il/
The Schott Foundation's Loving Cities Index "measures the supports a city provides children and families across every aspect of life".  This link points to the 2018 report for Chicago.

MAP SHOWING MOST SEGREGATES SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN US
http://viz.edbuild.org/maps/2016/fault-lines/
This 2016 EdBuild story map shows the 10 most segregated school districts in the US.

MAPPING COVID-19 RECOVERY PROJECT - CHICAGO INITIATIVE
https://www.mappingcovid19equity.org/
From the website: "The Mapping COVID-19 Recovery project standardizes data through a series of maps illustrating where public, private and philanthropic sector investments are going in communities of color devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of strategic reinvestment and recovery to close historic funding gaps and rebuild stronger communities."  

MAPPING LIFE EXPECTANCY - VCU WEB SITE
https://societyhealth.vcu.edu/work/the-projects/mapping-life-expectancy.html
This site has a "series of life expectancy maps which illustrate that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life can vary dramatically by neighborhood. In some cases, life expectancy can differ by as much as 20 years in neighborhoods only about five miles apart from one another." The aim of these maps is to serve as a resource—raising awareness of factors that shape health and spurring discussion and action on a complex web of factors that influence health.

MAPPING INEQUALITY - REDLINING IN NEW DEAL AMERICA
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/
This University of Richmond website is a huge resource of maps and data about redlining in America and its impact. 

MAPS SHOW LEVEL OF SEGREGATION IN NYC SCHOOLS
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This set of maps is part of a report showing segregation in big city schools, produced by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. 

MAPPING CHICAGO'S RACIAL SEGREGATION - 2022 ARTICLE IN SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
https://southsideweekly.com/mapping-chicagos-racial-segregation/
This link points to the first of six articles showing the history of racial segregation in Chicago. 

MASS INCARCERATION’S COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mass-incarcerations-collateral-damage-children-left-behind/#
This 2014 article from The Nation, shows the negative impact incarcerations have on children.

MEDIA EDITING GROUP - WATCHING AND DOCUMENTING NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE NEWS STORIES ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO
https://www.mediaeditinggroup.com/
Since 2010 Media Editing Group has been watching Chicago TV news broadcasts about the African-American community in Chicago and offers critiques about questionable journalistic practices included in news reports and newscasts.

MERCYCORPS - FOCUSES ON RELIEVING POVERTY AND SUFFERING AROUND THE WORLD
https://www.mercycorps.org/what-we-do
From the web site: The Mission of Mercy Corps is to "Alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities." Mercy Corps focuses on "places in transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval or economic collapse present opportunities to challenge the status quo and build more secure, productive and just communities."

MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY AND RACE IN AMERICA
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-intersection-of-race-place-and-multidimensional-poverty/
This is one of a series of articles on the Brookings.edu web site that focus on poverty, place and race. Many of these include interactive maps that enable viewers to zoom into different parts of the country.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
http://hdr.undp.org/en/2020-MPI
From the web site: "Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), published for the first time in the 2010 Report, complements monetary measures of poverty by considering overlapping deprivations suffered at the same time."  Read more.

NEW RESOURCES HELP ORGANIZATIONS ADVANCE RACE EQUITY AT EVERY STEP
https://www.aecf.org/blog/new-resources-help-organizations-advance-race-equity-at-every-step?
From the web site: "The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s seven-step guide, Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide, aims to help organizations advance race equity and eliminate systemic barriers en route to improving the lives of children and families.  This blog article is a rundown of resources — largely publications and webinar recordings — offered at each Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide step.

NOT EQUAL: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN ADDICTION/SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
https://www.addictionresource.net/racial-disparities-addiction-treatment/
This comprehensive article from the Addiction Resources.Net website examines the relationship between racial health disparities and substance abuse.

NPR CODE SWITCH - VIDEOS AND PODCASTS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
NPR Code Switch features a series of videos and podcast about race and racism in America.  

ODI - GLOBAL AFFAIRS THINK TANK - CREATING A BETTER SYSTEM
https://odi.org/en/about/
ODI is "a leading global affairs think tank that inspires people to act on injustice and inequality. ODI focuses on research, convening and influencing, to generate ideas that matter for people and planet."

OPPORTUNITY AND MOBILITY IN AMERICA - 14 CHARTS (2018 ARTICLE)
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This Brookings.edu  article includes 14 charts that show opportunity and mobility in America.  Use to understand why and where people need the most extra help.

OPPORTUNITY INSIGHTS: OPPORTUNITY ATLAS
https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
Mission is to "Our mission is to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes."  The Opportunity Atlas answers "Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?"  Visit site and dig into the information.

OTHERING & BELONGING INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/resources
From the website: "OBI advances groundbreaking research, policy, and ideas that examine and remediate the process of exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality -- what we call othering -- in order to build a world based on inclusion, fairness, justice, and care for the earth -- what we call belonging."  This link points to the resources page. 

'ORIGINAL SINS" - BOOK EXAMINES HOW EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO HURT BLACK AND INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
https://thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-l-ewing-examines-how-the-education-system-is-designed-to-hurt-black-and-indigenous-students/
This link points to an interview of Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins", published in Feb. 2025 in The Tribe. 

OUR EQUITABLE FUTURE: ROADMAP FOR THE CHICAGO REGION
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This is a plan put forth in 2017-18 by Chicago's Metropolitan Planning Council  Introduction on MPC web site says: "In 2015, the Metropolitan Planning Council launched a groundbreaking study to calculate the economic costs of segregation. With the Urban Institute, we documented the extreme price we pay to live so separately by race and income. Our study revealed this singular truth: As residents of the Chicago region, our fate is shared, and by living so separately we pay a steep cost that can be measured in lost income, lost lives and lost potential. These findings have been a catalyst for meaningful action, bringing together people from diverse communities and sectors to develop solutions that will lead to a more and equitable and thriving Chicago region."  Spend time reading the information on the site and discussing with others.

OXFAM’S 2018 REPORT ON PROSPERITY AND POVERTY, WEALTH AND WORK
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Description of report: "Oxfam’s report ‘Reward work not wealth’, looks at statistics in the annual  Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook and provides an analyses on what this means for people.

PERSISTENTLY POOR, LEFT-BEHIND AND CHRONICALLY DISCONNECTED (IN AMERICA)
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This report by Kenan Fikri "explores the extent to which persistent poverty areas represent a compelling sub-category of left-behind areas in America. It explores three ways in which places struggling with persistent poverty exhibit disconnection from the broader economy: commuting patterns, social networks (social capital) and job growth." Finally it emphasizes that "these problems tend not to resolve themselves naturally."

PERSISTENT POVERTY INTERACTIVE MAP - ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT IN PERSISTENT -POVERTY COMMUNITIES
https://eig.org/persistent-poverty-in-communities/
The Economic Innovation Group report shows that 35 million Americans reside in persistent-poverty communities.  The website has an interactive map that you can zoom into and look at this data at the census tract level or at the county level.  In a big county like Cook County, Il, persistent poverty is not visible, unless you look at it at the census tract level.  View the map at https://eig.org/persistent-poverty-in-communities/interactive-map/

PLUNDER OF BLACK WEALTH IN CHICAGO - DUKE UNIVERSITY 2019
https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Plunder-of-Black-Wealth-in-Chicago.pdf
From the report: “The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago: New Findings on the Lasting Toll of Predatory Housing Contracts” set out to calculate the amount of money extracted from Chicago’s black communities in the 1950s and 60s through the practice of what was commonly referred to as home contract sales (also referred to as home installment contracts, contracts for deed, or land sale contracts)."

POOR WHITE KIDS FALLING BEHIND - A UK ARTICLE
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In the US there is so much public attention to Black Lives Matter and the disadvantages of minorities, that there is little study of the declining prospects of poor white kids. This article focuses on kids in England. 

POVERTY - PUBLIC EDUCATION'S BIGGEST PROBLEM - WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE
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Two articles by Valerie Stauss in the October 18, 2013 and October 17, 2013 show the impact of poverty on education for poor kids and the impact of policy being driven by "elites" who have no personal experience with living in high poverty.
One paragraph reads "But education has a powerful role to play in combating poverty and its various manifestations.  Not just by exposing children to career-advancing skills, but also by exposing them to a full range of potential interests and pursuits, by affording time and resources to discover what they care for and what they are good at, and by supporting creative thinking and creative action."
This type of support can be offered by non-school, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs, even if it is not being fully offered in the local school.

POVERTY AND RACE RESEARCH ACTION COUNCIL (PRRAC) REVIEWS "BROWN AT 70 AND MILLKEN AT 50" (PDF)
https://www.prrac.org/newsletters/poverty-and-race-april2024.pdf
https://www.prrac.org
From the website: "This Poverty and Race special issue brings together a variety of perspectives to reflect on both the fulfilled and unfulfilled promise of Brown v. Board of Education and of Milliken v Bradley and offers ideas to help chart a path forward for making truly equitable and integrated schools a reality."

POVERTY GROWING IN SUBURBS: ARE CITIES PREPARED? - ARTICLE
https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/suburbanization-of-poverty
In depth 2017 article shows how poverty is growing in suburbs of big cities, but that infrastructure not in place to support those who need help.

POVERTY IN AMERICA - NATIVE AMERICANS
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/native-americans-property-rights/492941/
From the article: " The 2 million Natives in the U.S. have the highest rate of poverty of any racial group—almost twice the national average. "  Read the article and build your  understanding.

POVERTY USA - US CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
https://www.usccb.org/committees/catholic-campaign-human-development/poverty-education
Poverty in America is on the rise. This web site hosts a library of information that encourages citizens to educate themselves and others about the true state of poverty in America. It's goal is to empower every American to do something to help end poverty.

POVERTY, INEQUALITY IN BALTIMORE, OTHER CITIES
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This Brookings Report article shows that while the overall economic vitality of Baltimore, which suffered race riots in 2015, is higher than many US cities, it still has areas of concentrated poverty, segregation and inequality, as do many other US cities. Read the report. Look at the maps.

"PRIVATE OPULENCE, PUBLIC SQUALOR: HOW THE U.S. HELPS THE RICH AND HURTS THE POOR" - NPR 2023 ARTICLE
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/21/1164275807/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond-inequality
This interview with Matthew Desmond talks about widespread poverty in the United States, showing that the country does more to subsidize affluence than alleviate poverty. The article includes suggested solutions. 

POVERTY SOLUTIONS - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
https://poverty.umich.edu/
From the website: "The mission of Poverty Solutions is to partner with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty.  The Poverty Solutions team shares via books, social media and webinars, which Dan Bassill of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC has often viewed.  The October 2023 "Injustice of Place" webinar can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0sIuIvKY5A

POVERTY SOLUTIONS - MICHIGAN POVERTY AND WELL-BEING MAP
https://poverty.umich.edu/research-funding-opportunities/data-tools/michigan-poverty-well-being-map/
From the website: "This map combines several indicators to provide a snapshot of poverty and well-being across Michigan."   Also view, "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America". Read the article and view the interactive data map.  https://poverty.umich.edu/research-funding-opportunities/data-tools/understanding-communities-of-deep-disadvantage/

PRISONERS IN THE U.S. ARE PART OF A HIDDEN WORKFORCE LINKED TO HUNDREDS OF POPULAR FOOD BRANDS - U.S.NEWS JAN 2024 ARTICLE
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
A 2-year investigation from the Associated Press "finds that prison labor is connected to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods, sold by some of the biggest food companies."  Read the article. 

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ON RACE AND EQUITY - LEARN FROM THE PAST
https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/ncr-article/what-we-have-learned-from-public-engagement-on-race-and-equity/
This National Civic League article looks at past efforts to engage the public in discussions of race and poverty and offers suggestions for the future. 

RACE AND TECHNOLOGY: A RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES (JUNE 2022)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/race-technology-a-research-lecture-series/past-speakers/
View this archive on the Microsoft Research Blog and learn from "leading voices at the intersection of race and technology".  Discussions focus on data, the Internet, justice, genomics and more. 

RACE IN AMERICA - "HOLY POST" VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUwcs9qJXY
This informative 17 minute video shows root causes of Race inequality in America.  The only solution it proposes is for people to "care" about the problem. That's a starting point.

RACE, HEALTH AND HOUSING. CONNECTING THE DOTS - ARTICLE
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/race-health-housing-connecting-dots/
This article focuses on "discrimination and racial isolation" as "sources of racial health disparities,"  Follow the links to an expanded understanding of this issue.

RACE, CLASS & COMMUNITIES ARTICLES ON WBEZ CHICAGO 
https://www.wbez.org/topics/race-class-and-communities/1133cab4-5059-482c-a9fb-8a7f5662f3fc
WBEZ articles provide an in-depth understanding of race and class in Chicago, frequently using maps to help visualize the information.  Scroll through the articles at this link. 

RACIAL EQUITY ANALYTICS LAB - URBAN INSTITUTE
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From the website: "The Urban Institute’s Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL) equips today’s change agents with data and analyses to advance social and economic policies that help remedy persistent structural racism."  Explore the site to learn more. 

RACIAL EQUITY DATA HUB
https://www.tableau.com/foundation/data-equity#content-230488
From the website: "Tableau Foundation is hosting the Racial Equity Data Hub to share insights from leading experts at the intersection of data and equity issues, and to inspire anyone to effectively and ethically use data to advocate for change.  s the Racial Equity Data Hub is a resource we are co-creating with our contributors, what’s present on the site now is a starting point. We intend for the Racial Equity Data Hub to grow to encapsulate data and case studies focused on dismantling racism in all forms. By encouraging as much specificity and nuance as possible, we hope to drive toward widespread change."

RACIAL EQUITY HERE - COLLABORATION FOCUSING ON RACIAL INEQUITIES
https://www.racialequityalliance.org/where-we-work/racial-equity-here/
From the web site: "Racial Equity Here started in 2016 and provides city governments with tools, resources, and training to help cities analyze how their operations impact people of color and develop an outcome-driven action plan. Project partners provide cities with technical support, tools, and best practices to dismantle practices that perpetuate disparate, racialized outcomes. Beyond programs, Racial Equity Here changes systems to shift the national dialogue around racial equity toward high, equitable outcomes for all.
The focus of this project is on improving outcomes for youth, recognizing that systems and structures have created racial inequities, and that early interventions to correct institutional inequities increases the likelihood of success for all our youth."

RACIAL EQUITY TOOLS - CAUCUS AND AFFINITY GROUPS
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/act/strategies/caucus-and-affinity-groups
From the website: "White people and people of color each have work to do separately and together. Caucuses provide spaces for people to work within their own racial/ethnic groups. For white people, a caucus provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one’s critical analysis around these concepts." The site serves as a guide and outline for learning more about racial equity.

RACIAL EQUITY RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH AND CIVIL RIGHTS
https://www.collegeconsensus.com/resources/racial-equity-resources/
This site has aggregated 135 resources that promote racial equity in a variety of ways.  

RACISM AND HEALTH - COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON RJWF SITE
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation site features a "collection of content on the role racism plays in health and health care."

RACISM AND THE ECONOMY - RESOURCE LIST FROM 2021 FRB PRESENTATION
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/policy/racism-and-the-economy/focus-on-education-additional-resources
This link points to a list of recommended reading shared by the National Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in support of a Jan 2021 event titled "Racism and the Economy."

RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE RESPONDING
https://ihje.org/racism-is-a-public-health-crisis-report-2/
This report defines racism "as a social system that "determines how opportunity is structured, which unfairly disadvantages some racial and ethnic minority individuals and communities; unfairly advantages White individuals and communities; saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources."   The report has aggregated information showing what over 300 localities (cities states counties, etc) are doing to address structural racism. Open the PDF in this article to read the full report. 

READING LIST: RACE, SPACE & LAW
https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/race-space-and-the-law/
From the web site: "This reading list explores the law’s historical role in the constitution of space, place, the body, and various other modalities of belonging in the U.S. The focus lies primarily on integrating legal history texts into architectural scholarship to examine race (and its intersections) and to trace changing legal notions of property, territory, nationhood, and citizenship. A range of scholarship, from disability studies, public health, architectural history, legal history, environmental justice, whiteness studies, immigration studies, gender and sexuality studies, animal studies, and housing and urban studies in addition to recent literature on prisons, militarization, and waste is included."

RETHINKING THE POVERTY NARRATIVE. VIRTUAL SERIES DEDICATED TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING.
https://poverty.umich.edu/
The mission of Poverty Solutions is to partner with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty.

RICH, POOR HAVE HUGE MORTALITY GAP IN US - 2015 STUDY
https://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap-us-0411
This MIT article describes new research showing that wealthy and more affluent people live longer than poor people, and that this affect is different in different parts of the country.

ROOTS OF 21ST CENTURY RACISM - THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF 18TH CENTURY
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html
This  Slate  article is titled  The Enlightenment’s Dark Side: How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.   Add this to building your understanding of deep-rooted racism in US. 

ROOTS OF RACISM LEADING UP TO WW1 AND 21ST CENTURY CONFLICT
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/10/how-colonial-violence-came-home-the-ugly-truth-of-the-first-world-war
This article in  The Guardian  is another that builds an understanding of how European, White, imperialism, contributed to WW1 and continuing conflicts.

ROOTS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM - TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE UNITED STATES
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism
From the website: "This report is part of a larger project unveiled in June 2021 to investigate the persistence of racial residential segregation across the United States. Among the many components included in this project are a new interactive mapping tool to illustrate the level of segregation for every city, region and neighborhood in the country; a collection of tables which list cities and metropolitan regions by various measures of segregation and political polarization; nine city profiles noteworthy for their levels of segregation or integration; and a literature review featuring dozens of local city histories."

SCHOOL SEGREGATION REPORT 2014
https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/press-releases/2014-press-releases/new-york-schools-most-segregated-in-the-nation
This report shows New York City to be the most racially segregated school system in the country. Visit the web site to "read the report and see a complete breakdown of the data. This report is the fifth in a series of 12 reports on East Coast school segregation trends."

SEGREGATION ACADEMIES: DECADES AFTER DESEGREGATION, PRIVATE SCHOOLS STILL DIVIDE US
https://www.propublica.org/series/segregation-academies
This ProPublica series includes "a Private School Demographics database, which ProPublica launched in 2025, that anyone, anywhere can use to look up a school and view the years of data we were relying on for our reporting." The research shows that "Hundreds of the private schools that opened for white children fleeing the arrival of Black students still operate across the South.  And they play a key role in persistent segregation." 

SEGREGATION AND SCHOOL FUNDING: HOW HOUSING DISCRIMINATION REPRODUCES UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITY
https://www.shankerinstitute.org/segfunding
This 2022 research from the Albert Shanker Institute looks at seven cities in the USA and shows patterns of historic segregation that led to less adequate funding for youth in Black, Brown and Asian neighborhoods of each city. Read and share. 

SEGREGATION BY DESIGN - DOCUMENTS DESTRUCTION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
This website includes maps and historic aerial photography to "document the destruction of communities of color due to red-lining, "urban renewal," and freeway construction. Ultimately the project will cover about 180 municipalities which received federal funding from the 1956 Federal Highway Act, which created the interstate  highway system."

SEGREGATION COSTS CHICAGO BILLIONS - 2017 STUDY
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This article in the  Chicago Reader  is titled  New study finds segregation costs Chicago billions in income, tens of thousands of college degrees, and hundreds of lives each year.

SEGREGATION IN CHICAGO - RESEARCH FOCUS OF METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
https://www.metroplanning.org/work/project/33
From the web site: "MPC and Urban Institute are conducting a two-year study based on the hypothesis that by reducing segregation, Chicago and our region will experience faster economic growth and a more equitable quality of life." Visit the site to learn more about the research and read articles that have been published. 

SEGREGATION IN NYC - A PROJECT OF INTEGRATENYC YOUTH LEADERS
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School Segregation is not a new problem and is embedded in most US cities.  This link points to a data and map-based presentation by youth in the IntegrateNYC program.  It demonstrates a role youth in many cities could take to address an important issue.

SEGREGATION IN USA - ARTICLES ON MAPPING FOR JUSTICE BLOG
https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/search/label/segregation
Find additional articles about segregation, along with poverty maps, on the Mapping for Justice blog, which is one of the resources of the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC.

SEGREGATION MAPS OF 40 MAJOR U.S. CITIES
https://www.fastcompany.com/1690097/infographic-day-how-segregated-your-city
Using data from the 2000 census, Eric Fischer created maps of 40 major U.S. cities based on racial divides and integration.

SHAME OF CHICAGO - THE SEGREGATION OF AN AMERICAN CITY
http://www.shameofchicago.org/#home
This is a documentary series that shows "the story behind how Chicago and its suburbs constructed the nation's most pernicious system of racially separated communities and how it shaped the lives of generations pas and what it means for us today".  There are six episodes in the series. 

SPOTLIGHT ON POVERTY - UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES
https://spotlightonpoverty.org/about-us/
From the web site: "Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: The Source for News, Ideas and Action is a non-partisan initiative that brings together diverse perspectives from the political, policy, advocacy and foundation communities to find genuine solutions to the economic hardship confronting millions of Americans. Through the ongoing exchange of ideas, research and data, Spotlight seeks to inform the policy debate about reducing poverty and increasing opportunity in the United States."

STANFORD CENTER ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/pathway/state-states
From the web site: "The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) is one of the country’s three federally-funded poverty centers dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, examining what is driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality."

STATE OF BLACK AMERICA - 2016 NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE REPORT
http://soba.iamempowered.com/2016-report
From the web site: "The State of Black America®, the National Urban League’s seminal annual publication now in its 40thedition, has become one of the most highly-anticipated benchmarks and sources for thought leadership around racial equality in America across economics, employment, education, health, housing, criminal justice and civic participation.  Each edition of the State of Black America contains thoughtful commentary and insightful analysis from leading figures and thought leaders in politics, the corporate arena, NGOs, academia and popular culture."

STATE OF RACIAL JUSTICE IN CHICAGO- 2017 REPORT
https://stateofracialjusticechicago.com/
From the web site: "The State of Racial Justice in Chicago Report provides a comprehensive picture of the changing conditions of racial and ethnic groups in Chicago during the last half century. The report provides accessible data and analysis on how racial and ethnic groups in Chicago are faring in relation to housing, education, economics, health, justice, and services."

STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF RACIAL AND ECONOMIC SEGREGATION IN SE WISCONSIN
http://imua-grace.com/blog/structural-causes-of-racial-economic-segregation-in-southeastern-wisconsin
The video in this blog was produced for the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee to create a response from the faith community to this issue.

SYSTEMIC RACISM EXPLAINED - VIDEO ON TWITTER
https://twitter.com/UrbnHandicapper/status/1305959509513441285?s=20
This animation helps explain systemic racism.  Take a look. 

TALK POVERTY.ORG
https://talkpoverty.org/poverty/
From the web site: "TalkPoverty.org—a project of the Center for American Progress—is dedicated to covering poverty in America by lifting up the voices of advocates, policymakers, and people struggling to make ends meet." 

THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, RURAL, POOR, DISTANT AND TRIBAL – TWO AMERICAS FOR OPPORTUNITY
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Good article defining the education and economic achievement gap in America. The writer says "The Achievement Gap has both social and economical roots, and it’s a problem that not only affects the futures of individuals, but costs our country billions of dollars a year. Without addressing these underlying factors, the very prosperity and leadership abilities of our country is threatened."

THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS BY TA-NEHISI COATES
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
This article in The Atlantic is a long history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, separate but not equal, housing segregation, and more in America.  

THE COLOR OF MONEY - ROOTS OF RACIAL WEALTH GAP - BOOK BY MEHRSA BARADARAN
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237476
In this book, Mehrsa Baradaran discusses the structural failures of free-market capitalism in mitigating the racial wealth gap. 

THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, 1493
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493
From the website: "The Papal Bull "Inter Caetera," issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World. The Bull stated that any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be "discovered," claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that "the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself." This "Doctrine of Discovery" became the basis of all European claims in the Americas as well as the foundation for the United States’ western expansion."

THE ENDURING CHALLENGE OF CONCENTRATED POVERTY - 2008 ARTICLE
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-enduring-challenge-of-concentrated-poverty-in-america/
From the web site:  "The Federal Reserve System and its 12 member banks partnered with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program to produce a new, in-depth look at concentrated poverty in America. The two-year study, The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America, profiles 16 high-poverty communities across the United States, investigating the historical and contemporary factors associated with their high levels of economic distress."  You can download the report from this web site. 

THE EQUALITY TRUST - HEALTH IMPACT OF POVERTY GAPS
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/
Large income inequalities within societies damage the social fabric and the quality of life for everyone."  The Equality Trust Campaigns to gain the widest public and political understanding of the harm caused by inequality.

THE EXPANDING WORLD OF POVERTY CAPITALISM
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html
This NY Times article illustrates how the self interest of many works to keep people in prison and in poverty. Share with  volunteers and help build awareness of this problem.

THE FADING AMERICAN DREAM - RAJ CHETTY AT 2019 MPC LUNCHEON
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This page contains links to a video and slide show with Raj Chetty's presentation at the 2019 Chicago. Metropolitan Planning Council luncheon. Chetty is a Harvard Professor, MacArthur Fellow, and Founder of Opportunity Insights. 

THE GLOBAL GOALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (SDGs)
http://www.globalgoals.org/
This site focused on 17 different issue areas, important to people around the world. It's goal is to teach people to get informed, involved and to take action. Lots of ideas that could be included in tutor/mentor programs and schools.

THE HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN US PUBLIC SCHOOLS - AUTHOR: SUSAN DUFRESENE
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From the web site: "In The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools Susan DuFresne shakes us to our foundation with the historically accurate images she has created on the three fifteen foot panels, which Garn Press has transformed into a book that is destined to unite hearts and minds in the struggle for equity and justice for all children in America’s public schools.' 

THE IMPERATIVE OF REPARATIONS FOR BLACK AMERICANS - 2020 REPORT
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The full title of this article is  Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black Americans.  In it William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment, redress, and closure and outline a detailed plan for the execution of reparations. There is a link to the full PDF report in the article. 

THE LEGATUM PROSPERITY INDEX(TM) – CREATING THE P ATHWAYS FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY
https://www.prosperity.com/
“From the website: “The Legatum Prosperity Index(TM) is a tool for transformation, offering a unique insight into how prosperity is forming and changing across the world.” View the rankings of every country in the world.

THE NEW SEGREGATION - 2016 USNEWS REPORT
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-26/racial-tensions-flare-as-schools-resegregate
It is important to read and  understand impact of school segregation in US. This quote from article " in some parts of the country schools are more segregated – and white students and students of color more isolated – than they’ve ever been." is basis for concern.

THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA - EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA
https://www.opportunityagenda.org/about
From the web site: "The Opportunity Agenda is a social justice communication lab that works to advance the impact of the social justice community. We do this by * Shaping compelling narratives and messages; * Building the communication capacity of leaders through training and resources; * Engaging with artists, creatives, and culture makers as powerful storytellers to shift the public discourse."

THE OPPORTUNITY ATLAS: MAPPING CHILDHOOD ROOTS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY
https://opportunityinsights.org/
This interactive map was created by Opportunity Insights. Their mission is "to develop scale-able policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes." Take some time to browse the site and the map. 

THE SOCIOECONOMIC DISPARITIES THAT MAKE OUR LIVES SHORTER
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This article, titled: "The Key to Long Life is About More Than Health Care" discusses the impact of poverty and policy in the US on life expectancy and how it affects rich and poor.  Share with volunteers in tutor/mentor programs.

THESE MAPS REVEAL HOW SLAVERY EXPANDED ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/maps-reveal-slavery-expanded-across-united-states-180951452/
This site uses maps to show the growth of slavery in America.

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL - FIGHTING CORRUPTION AND POVERTY
https://www.transparency.org/en/what-we-do
From the web site: "Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. We focus on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and hold the powerful to account for the common good. Through our advocacy, campaigning and research, we work to expose the systems and networks that enable corruption to thrive, demanding greater transparency and integrity in all areas of public life."


TRICKLE DOWN NORMS - BY RICHARD REEVES
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/trickle-down-norms
Add this article to your reading as you try to understand how the growing geographic gaps between rich and poor in America are a disadvantage to poor kids while serving as an advantage to affluent kids.

U.S. FINANCIAL DIARIES - UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL LIVES OF POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS
https://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/issue
From the web  site: "The U.S. Financial Diaries (USFD) is a research study collecting detailed financial data from 235 low- and moderate-income households over the course of a year. USFD employs a research approach that combines the methods of quantitative and qualitative research. By observing household finances over long periods of time and at frequent intervals, we have collected detailed financial data from participating families, covering such territory as assets and debts, cash flows in and out of the households, financial instruments, employment, financial goals, and attitudes about money."

UNDERSTANDING AND QUANTIFYING CROSSROADS MOMENTS: HOW CONTEXT AND DECISIONS CAN AFFECT ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES (pdf)
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/understanding-and-quantifying-crossroads-moments.pdf
This March 2022 research report from the Urban Institute talks about "crossroads moments, which are critical moments that can set individuals on an upward or downward path of economic mobility and how structural factors influence crossroads moments and how changes at those moments in adolescence and young adulthood can influence long-term adult outcomes."

UNDERSTANDING POVERTY, RESEARCH BY RUBY K. PAYNE
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/a-framework-for-understanding-ruby-payne/
Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. is the founder of aha! Process, an award-winning training and publishing company providing workshops, publications, and consulting services to help improve lives and build sustainable success in communities, schools, and higher education.  We do this by creating an understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to systems level."    
This link points to a critique of her work.

UNDERSTANDING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP - THE ASSET VALUE OF WHITENESS - PDF
https://www.demos.org/research/asset-value-whiteness-understanding-racial-wealth-gap
From the paper: "This paper explores a number of these popular explanations for the racial wealth gap, looking at individual differences in education, family structure, full- or part-time employment, and consumption habits. In each case, we find that individual choices are not sufficient to erase a century of accumulated wealth: structural racism trumps personal responsibility."  Read the full article.  


UNDERSTANDING WEALTH GAP 1947-2011- INFOGRAPHIC
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This  New York Times infographic shows how prosperity was shared by many Americans from 1947-1979, then mostly by the richest 1% of American's since then.

'URBAN DECAY' CREATED BY SEGREGATION FUELING POVERTY, POPULATION LOSS ON CHICAGO SOUTH, WEST SIDES. 2022 STUDY
https://news.wttw.com/2022/07/19/urban-decay-created-segregation-fueling-poverty-population-loss-south-west-sides-study
This is an article on the WTTW website pointing to a new study showing negative impact of segregation on Chicago's South and West sides. 
Read full study at https://www.cookcountytreasurer.com/scavengersalestudymapsofinequality.aspx

US IS BECOMING A 'DEVELOPING COUNTRY' ON GLOBAL RANKINGS THAT MEASURE DEMOCRACY, INEQUALITY (2022 ARTICLE)
https://theconversation.com/us-is-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality-190486
From the article "The USA may regard itself as a "leader of the free world," but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country 41st on a worldwide list, down from it's previous ranking of 32nd."  Read the article. Follow the links. 

US PARTNERSHIP ON MOBILITY FROM POVERTY
https://www.mobilitypartnership.org/blog/partnerships-approach
From the web site: "The Urban Institute, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is supporting the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty. Led by chair David Ellwood and executive director Nisha Patel, the Partnership consists of 24 leading voices representing academia, practice, the faith community, philanthropy, and the private sector.
The Partnership's collective ambition is that all people achieve a reasonable standard of living with the dignity that comes from having power over their lives and being engaged in and valued by their community."


USC CENTER FOR STUDY OF IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION (CSII)
https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii
From the web site: "The mission of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) is to remake the narrative for understanding, and to shape the dialogue, on immigrant integration in America.
CSII intends to identify and evaluate the mutual benefits of immigrant integration for the native-born and immigrants and to study the pace of the ongoing transformation in different locations, not only in the past and present but projected into the future." The Center integrates many interactive maps on its web site. Take a look.

VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE -
https://www.vera.org/in-our-backyards#community-grants
From the web site: "We work with others who share our vision to tackle the most pressing injustices of our day—from the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and the loss of public trust in law enforcement, to the unmet needs of the vulnerable, the marginalized, and those harmed by crime and violence."  This link points to a focus area titled In Our Backyards aimed at understanding prison growth and incarceration increases in rural areas across America.


VOICES FROM THE FIELD: RACIAL JUSTICE AND RURAL ORGANIZING IN AMERICA - PDF
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This report focuses on racial justice and community organizing in rural America and provides a review of the current landscape.


WAR IN OUR OWN CITIES - 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4115988
In this 2004 story "Commentator Judy Muller says both presidential candidates have forgotten about the issue of crime in this election. She believes the recent gang-related murder in Los Angeles of a 14-year-old boy riding his bicycle in broad daylight should remind Americans that there's a war going on in our own cities." 


WEALTH IN AMERICA 2016 - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
This is a terrific visualization showing inequality in America.

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN AMERICA - INTERACTIVE TOPOGRAPHY MAP
https://inclusivewealth.eig.org/wealthmap/
This is a new (2021) report that uses an interactive map to show wealth inequality across America.  The focus on wealth vs income is important since wealth takes so long to grow and is often inherited from generation to generation.  

WEALTH INEQUALITY AND THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IN COOK COUNTY, IL - 2023 STUDY
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wealth-inequality-and-the-racial-wealth-gap-new-study-shows-cook-county-residents-wealth-disparity-and-the-problem-is-far-worse-for-the-black-and-latinx-population/
From the website: "New study shows Cook County residents wealth disparity, and the problem is far worse for the Black and Latinx population".  This is an article in The Chicago Reporter that focuses on a study by the Financial Health Network, titled "The Financial Health Pulse Chicago Report, 2022."

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY, AND WHY IS IT UNDER ATTACK?
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
This 2021 article in Education Week offers an understanding of what "Critical Race Theory" is and how it has supporters and opponents.  If you've heard the term, but are unclear on the definition, this can be a useful article.  

WHO ARE THE POOR AMERICANS? 2017 ARTICLE
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41930107
This article states that "in 2016 nearly 41 million people, or 13% of the population, were living in poverty - down from 15% at the height of the recession in 2010".  The article answers the question, "Who are America's Poor."

WHY DO WE THINK POOR PEOPLE ARE POOR BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN BAD CHOICES?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/05/us-inequality-poor-people-bad-choices-wealthy-bias
This is one of many articles in The Guardian, written by Maia Szalavitz, which focus on poverty, inequality, addiction, etc. 


WHY THE GREAT MIGRATION DID LITTLE TO BRIDGE THE GREAT RACIAL DIVIDE
https://ncrc.org/why-the-great-migration-did-little-to-bridge-the-great-racial-divide/
This is 2022 article is one of many reports on the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) website.  


WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM GLOBAL RISK REPORT 2018
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2018
From the web site: "Each year the Global Risks Report works with experts and decision-makers across the world to identify and analyze the most pressing risks that we face. As the pace of change accelerates, and as risk interconnections deepen, this year’s report highlights the growing strain we are placing on many of the global systems we rely on."  Visit the site, download the PDF, read the report.


WORLD INEQUALITY REPORT - 2018
https://wir2018.wid.world/
From the web site: "The World Inequality Report 2018 relies on a cutting-edge methodology to measure income and wealth inequality in a systematic and transparent manner. By developing this report, the World Inequality Lab seeks to fill a democratic gap and to equip various actors of society with the necessary facts to engage in informed public debates on inequality."


WORLD WEALTH & INCOME DATABASE
https://wid.world/country/usa/
The World Inequality Lab’s (WIL) Wealth and Income Database is described by Ford Foundation as "Open, transparent, and accessible, the database is a rich hub of information about the wealth and income inequities that contribute to global inequality. WIL offers this data in an effort to fuel an honest conversation about the realities of inequality and highlight the important role that national policies and institutions play in shaping it."

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT CRISIS - WORLD WIDE ISSUE 2015 AND BEYOND
https://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/the-youth-employment-crisis/
This article is posted on the Learning Change blog. In the introduction it says "In countries severely affected by the global financial crisis, youth unemployment has reached staggering proportions. To have four out of every ten young people unemployed is a social and economic catastrophe. The global financial crisis has aggravated the pre-existing “crisis before the crisis”. Across the world, young women and men face real and increasing difficulty in finding decent work. Over the last two decades, youth unemployment on average has remained at three times that of adult unemployment and, in some regions, this proportion is now as high as five times the adult rate."  The PDF is 118 pages long and provides an extensive overview of this critical issue.

AMERICAN INEQUALITY DATA PORTAL - USE THE MAPS
https://www.americaninequality.io/maps
This site is a tremendous resource for those who want to understand where poverty and equality are concentrated in America and to view some suggestions for "a path forward".  

"THE ARCHITECTURE OF SEGREGATION," - POVERTY IN CITIES - 2015 REPORT
https://tcf.org/content/report/architecture-of-segregation/
"The landscape of poverty has grown in American cities, leaving more low-income people living in an expanding number of largely poor neighborhoods." That’s according to a report titled "The Architecture of Segregation," published this month by Paul Jargowsky, a fellow at the nonprofit Century Foundation.

10 MOST SEGREGATED US CITIES
https://www.salon.com/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/
Read the article and view the slide show. These are cities that should be working with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to help create mentor rich programs that bridge poverty and segregation that divides us in big city America.

500 CITIES PROJECT - PUBLIC HEALTH DATA FROM CDC AND RW JOHNSON
https://www.cdcfoundation.org/programs/places-project
From the web site: "To ensure the health of America’s neighborhoods and communities, it is vital to understand the scope of the nation's most pressing health challenges. The CDC Foundation is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to release a first-of-its-kind data analysis for the 500 largest American cities, and the census tracts within cities, to identify, analyze and report data for a select number of chronic disease measures."  Click into the interactive map section of the site. 

AMERICAN INEQUALITY DATA VISUALIZATION RESOURCE ON SUBSTACK.COM
https://americaninequality.substack.com/
From the website: "At American Inequality, we are focused on  using data visualizations and mapping to highlight America's regional divides.  Every article dives into an inequality topic that gets less coverage than it should. Stories are woven into every article, because data is nothing without the people behind it." Solutions are included with each article. 

A MAPPING RESOURCE FROM OJJDP
https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/news_at_glance/218233/topstory.html
The national offices of Juvenile Justice launched a web site called, SMART system, in 2005, which is a Geographic Information System and Web-based mapping application. 

A NEW (2018) DATA TOOL CHRONICLES THE SHIFTING MURDER RATES OF AMERICAN CITIES
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/08/american-violence-murder-rates-u-s-cities/
This article describes a new data tool, created by American Violence shows homicide data from  82 of America's 100 largest cities.  It also describes "A research brief drawing on the site’s data spells out how the ways in which crime rates are framed can shape or distort our understanding of them." You'll want to read the article then click the links.

AMERICAN VIOLENCE - MAKES DATA ON VIOLENCE ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC 
click here
From the web site: "The project is designed as a public resource that will make data on violence accessible to public officials, journalists, researchers, and the public at large, allowing users to visualize and analyze trends in violence at multiple geographic levels (neighborhoods and cities) and over different time frames (month to month, year to year, decade to decade). The first version of the site, launched in 2018) provides city-level figures on murder rates in more than 80 of the largest 100 U.S. cities. The second version of the site, which will be launched in the coming months, will feature neighborhood-level figures on violent crime in 30-50 cities with available data."

ANTI VIOLENCE STRATEGY FOR CHICAGO - 2019 ARTICLE - SEE MAPS
click here
This link points to an article in  Crains Chicago Business , that describes anti violence strategies being introduced in Chicago. The article includes maps showing poverty, unemployment and demographic information with homicides from 2013-2017 shown as overlay.

ARE US CITIES GETTING MORE OR LESS VIOLENT (2018)
https://res.cloudinary.com/gates/image/upload/ocrlhs4r9v9kxd0ltaab
This is a "research brief drawing on the  American Violence   site’s data spells out how the ways in which crime rates are framed can shape or distort our understanding of them. The paper analyzes urban murder rates in the United States during three periods. Over the long-term, between 1991 and the present, rates plunged dramatically. Between 2014 and the present, there was a significant uptick in violence, but murders never came close to the “record levels” described by Trump and his political allies." 

ATLAS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOOPMENT GOALS - 2020 - FROM WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/
This site is a huge data resource for understanding the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, by region of the world, and by country. 

CHICAGO COMMUNITY AREA HARDSHIP INDEX 2016-2020
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/da5601c3e0924e5ab3ee07ade9954f7a
This interactive map, created by the UIC Great Cities Institute, shows areas of Chicago with highest levels of economic hardship, based on six indicators, including unemployment , education, per capita income, poverty, crowded housing and dependency. 

CHICAGO COMMUNITY AREA HARDSHIP INDEX - 2019-2023
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b57d7f755d3b4d219dac3ade2f387e9c
This is an update from the UIC Great Cities report issued in 2020 (see link above).  The interactive map shows areas with highest level of economic hardship, based on six indicators which include unemployment rate, education, per capita income, poverty rate, crowded housing, dependency. 

CHICAGO CRIME MAPPING RESOURCE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-crime-in-chicago-20171114-storygallery.html
Use this Chicago Tribune resource to understand crime levels in different community areas. 

CHICAGO HEALTH ATLAS - USE MAPS TO UNDERSTAND ISSUES
https://chicagohealthatlas.org/
From the web site: "The City Tech Collaborative and the Chicago Department of Public Health created the Chicago Health Atlas so that you can review, explore and compare health-related data over time and across communities. In addition, the Chicago Health Atlas provides a place for residents to see our progress implementing Healthy Chicago 2.0, the citywide plan to improve health equity."

CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS 2015 - RESOURCE FROM CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST
https://www.cct.org/about/partnerships_initiatives/chicago-neighborhoods-2015/
From the web site: "Chicago Neighborhoods 2015: Assets, Plans and Trends is a research project by The Chicago Community Trust that focuses on Chicago’s built environment. This includes infrastructure, natural features and physical and institutional assets that define and influence the city's musculature. The project provides data and other pertinent contextual information for every section of the city. It identifies major recent investments, maps assets and synthesizes ideas from Chicago's many excellent local and citywide plans." 

CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT CRIME MAPPING RESOURCE
https://gis.chicagopolice.org/
From the web site:  "The Chicago Police Department developed this web application to provide residents of the City of Chicago with a tool to assist them in problem-solving and combating crime and disorder in their neighborhoods. It is based upon the CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system developed by the Department for use by its police officers.
This web application enables you to search the Chicago Police Department's database of reported crime. You will be able to see maps, graphs, and tables of reported crime. The database contains 90 days of information which you can access in blocks of up to 14 days. Data is refreshed daily. However, the most recent information is back-dated 7 days from today's date."

CHICAGO POVERTY DATA AND MAPS - 2015
http://wire.cjc.net/data-sets/poverty-thresholds/
This page of the Workforce Information and Resources (WIRE) web site presents official poverty measures for different areas in Illinois, as well as alternative ways of understanding poverty.

CHICAGO'S MURDER PROBLEM - 5-2016 NY TIMES ANALYSIS
click here
This New York Times article provides an in-depth comparison of Chicago to New York City, including maps and graphs.  Add to your reading.

CHILD POVERTY IN US - 2015 INTERACTIVE MAP
https://www.childrensdefense.org/ending-child-poverty-now/
This Children's Defense Fund web site includes an interactive map with child poverty data for each state in the USA.  

COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS IN US - INTERACTIVE MAPS
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/illinois/2019/overview
From the web site: "The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income inequality, and teen births in nearly every county in America. The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. They provide a starting point for change in communities."

COUNTY POPULATION TRENDS, 2020 TO 2021, AND RACE/ETHNICITY WITH THE LARGEST CHANGE
https://eig.org/working-age-white-americans-exited-large-cities/
Interactive map on Economic Innovation Group website shows changes in population for different parts of the USA.  Check out the Issue Areas and Analysis parts of the website. 

CRIME IN CHICAGOLAND - FEATURE OF CHICAGO TRIBUNE (2015)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-crime-in-chicago-20171114-storygallery.html
The Chicago Tribune has created an extensive library of information and interactive platform to help anyone understand crime patterns in different parts of the Chicago region. Great resource for activists.

CRIME MAPPING & ANALYSIS NEWS
http://crimemapping.info/article/role-of-mapping-technology-for-locating-missing-children/
From the web site: "The Police Foundation has been exploring the use of open data as a means to improve transparency and accountability and to encourage and support innovation in policing. To pursue these goals, a Public Safety Open Data Portal will be launched to highlight what local agencies are doing in the area of open data and to offer the public and professional users the ability to see, visualize, and analyze the data in one location."

CRIME MAPPING AND ANALYSIS
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/maps-how-mapping-helps-reduce-crime-and-improve-public-safety
This web site uses GIS maps to illustrate where criminal activity takes place in different parts of the US. The MAPS program supports research into spatial aspects of crime, spatial data analysis, mapping and analysis for evaluating programs and policy, as well as development of mapping, data sharing, and spatial analysis tools. MAPS also sponsors conferences and workshops and publishes reports.

DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES INDEX - INTERACTIVE MAP
https://eig.org/dci
From the web site: "How did the Great Recession from 2007-2011 and subsequent recovery affect the health and trajectories of American communities? And how have the rewards of a long national expansion been distributed in local terms across different places and populations?

To find out, EIG used its Distressed Communities Index (DCI) to compare two distinct time periods: 2007-2011 and 2012-2016. The DCI combines seven complementary metrics into a single measure of economic well-being, resulting in a clear snapshot of the economic and social state of the U.S. zip codes, counties, cities, and congressional districts. Places are sorted into quintiles based on their performance on the index: Prosperous, comfortable, mid-tier, at risk, and distressed."

EQUITY MAP BOOK - LOS ANGELES
https://www.angelcityadvisors.com/mapbook
From the website: The Equity Map Book is a collection of 79 maps, in pdf format, that visualize injustice and exclusion across the Los Angeles County region.  Since the racial injustice protests of 2020, we have been collecting various current County-wide data sets – some public, others not – and mapping them across our region.  These maps are for you to use, cite, and ACT upon."

EXPLORING THE NATION OF POVERTY (2015) - FLOWING DATA WEB SITE
http://labratrevenge.com/nation-of-poverty/
Poverty is growing in US cities. View story and visualizations on this site to build your understanding.

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY - POVERTY MAPS
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/povmap
From the web site: "The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty."

GROWTH AND SPREAD OF CONCENTRATION POVERTY IN USA 2000-2012
https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/the-growth-and-spread-of-concentrated-poverty-2000-to-2008-2012/#/M10420
Included in this report is the statement "The nation’s 100 largest metro areas are home to 70 percent of all distressed census tracts, along with similar proportions of the total population and poor residents living in such neighborhoods."  The resources of this web site are intended to help youth serving organizations grow in these high poverty neighborhoods.

GUN VIOLENCE DISPROPORTIONATELY AND OVERWHELMINGLY HURTS COMMUNITIES OF COLOR - 2022 FACT SHEET
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/gun-violence-disproportionately-and-overwhelmingly-hurts-communities-of-color/
This article shows that "the lack of investments in communities of color, coupled with weak gun laws, has resulted in devastatingly high rates of gun violence for Black and brown people".  Here's a 2023 article in Chicago SunTimes that "compares risk in some Chicago neighborhoods to risks U.S. troops faced in Iraq, Afghanistan war zones". https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/3/23583842/violence-garfield-park-chicago-neighborhoods-iraq-afghanistan-wars-60624-west-side

GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE - COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
From the website: "Gun Violence Archive (GVA) was formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA collects data from over 7,5000 law enforcement, media, government and commercial resources daily."  The site has an extensive collection of charts and maps. 

HOW DOES WHERE WE LIVE AFFECT HOW LONG WE LIVE?
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html?
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation resource includes a variety of interactive maps that focus on health disparities. In this link you can enter  your address and see the life expectancy for where you live and compare it to your city, county, state and overall USA.  This is one of several resources on this page.

HOW MAPS CAN HELP FIGHT RACISM AND INEQUALITY
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/03/02/maps-help-fight-racism-inequality
This 2021 article shows how Black activist have used maps over the past 100 years to focus on poverty, racism and equality and to motivate state and Federal government legislation. 

ILLUSTRATING CHICAGO'S CRIME - RICH DATA SITE
http://heyjackass.com/
This site provides a wealth of illustrated data about crime in Chicago. Use it in  your own civic engagement and efforts to reduce this problem. 

IMPACT OF PLACE ON LIFE CHANCES - RAJ CHETTY PAPER
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/06/02/these-maps-from-raj-chetty-show-that-where-children-grow-up-has-a-major-impact-on-their-lifetime-earnings/
These maps from Raj Chetty show that where children grow up has a major impact on their lifetime earnings.  View this article and video on the Brookings.edu site and share with your network. 

INDIANA GOV MAP SHOWS METH LABS IN STATE
https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/indianas-interactive-map-plots-meth-lab-data.html
This site maps data showing meth labs in Indiana. It's an example of how state government can share data that citizens can use to help solve problems.

INEQUALITY OF U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MAPPED
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-14/mapping-the-concentration-of-poverty-in-u-s-public-schools
From the site: "the Urban Institute has taken a deeper dive by mapping the data by county, illuminating how poverty and race are distributed in public schools across the country."  Visit the site. Look at the maps. Share the data.

JUSTICE ATLAS OF SENTENCING & CORRECTIONS
https://nicic.gov/justice-atlas-sentencing-and-corrections-0
From the web site: "The Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections is an online tool for mapping the residential distribution of people involved in the criminal justice system. It uses aggregated address data to map the flow of people being removed to prison, reentering communities from prison, and the standing population concentrations of people under parole or probation supervision."

JUVENILE JUSTICE MAPPING SITE
http://www.jjgps.org/
From the web site: "Juvenile Justice GPS (Geography, Policy, Practice, & Statistics) is a project to develop an online repository providing state policy makers and system stakeholders with a clear understanding of the juvenile justice landscape in the states.

The site layers the most relevant national and state level statistics with information on state laws and practice and charts juvenile justice system change. In a landscape that is highly decentralized and ever-shifting, JJGPS provides an invaluable resource for those wanting to improve the juvenile justice system. We hope that the information will be used as a platform for inspiring change and finding solutions that have been applied in other places."

LOS ANGELES CRIME MAPPING WEB SITE
http://maps.latimes.com/crime/
From the web site:  "The LA Times’ database of Los Angeles County crime reports. Crime L.A. delivers the power of neighborhood crime analysis to your computer. Using data from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Crime L.A. creates maps and reports for the hundreds of cities and neighborhoods covered by these agencies."

LOST IN PLACE - POVERTY GROWING IN US CITIES
https://cityobservatory.org/lost-in-place/
This story starts by saying "Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty–not gentrification–is our biggest urban challenge." Read more. Look at the maps.

MAP SHOWING SEGREGATION IN CHICAGO
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots
This Racial Dot Map helps understand some of our social and economic challenges better. 

MAP VISUALIZES COMPLEX CONFLICT IN CONGO
https://www.businessinsider.com/map-congo-conflict-2015-12
This article demonstrates the potential of maps to help understand complex problems in the US, and the World.

MAPPING CRIME DATA IN CHICAGO AT NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL
http://archive.lisc-chicago.org/news/2668
This article describes how civic tech developers are creating  computer applications that are enabling neighborhood residents to play a greater role in improving their communities. Link in the story points to new CrimeAround.us site.

MAPPING CRIME: PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE (PDF)
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178919.pdf
This extensive 206 page guide introduces the science of crime mapping to police officers, crime analysts, and other people interested in visualizing crime data through the medium of maps.

MAPPING DECLINE: ST. LOUIS AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN CITY
http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
Description of web site: "University of Iowa historian Colin Gordon is the author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City: a book that investigates how Saint Louis changed during the twentieth century. In his research, Gordon utilized archival records as well as GIS techniques. He also created this series of four interactive maps as a companion to this book. Each of these maps illustrates a different phenomenon that shaped Saint Louis: white flight; laws and policies that deliberately created racial segregation; municipal zoning laws; and laws and policies that fit under the umbrella of "urban renewal." Each of these four maps includes a timeline accompanied by a short explanation, which allows visitors to learn how certain policies and laws impacted demographic trends." Similar practices took place in most other US cities.

MAPPING INEQUALITY - UNDERSTANDING HOUSING POLICY & INEQUALITY
click here
From the web site: "Mapping Inequality updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty-first century. It offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced between 1935 and 1940 by one of the New Deal's most important agencies, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation or HOLC (pronounced "holk")."

MAPPING GUN VIOLENCE: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PLACE AND GUN HOMICIDES IN FOUR CITIES
https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-closer-look-at-the-intersection-between-place-and-gun-homicides-in-four-cities/
This 2022 Brookings.edu looks at gun violence in Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City and Nashville, using maps to show the connection g between poverty, racial segregation, systemic disinvestment and high rates of gun violence.  

MAPPING KEY DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC DATA - NEW YORK CITY
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/urbanresearchmaps
From the web site: "The Center for Urban Research prepared a paper on behalf of the NYC Districting Commission discussing how "communities of interest" might be considered, measured, and understood in the context of drawing new City Council lines in the 2013 districting process. In this report The Center for Urban Research has mapped and analyzed hundreds of measures that might be taken to indicate some aspect of community of interest."

MAPPING LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES IN THE US - NEW RESOURCE -2022
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/decision-support/mapping-low-income-communities-in-the-us/
This article describes a new layer of information added to the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, to be used in mapping and policy efforts. 

MILLION NEIGHBORHOODS MAPPING INITIATIVE
https://millionneighborhoods.org/#2/6.05/58.5
From the web site: "The "Million Neighborhoods" project by a team at the University of Chicago aims to map the whole world - eventually - and become a tool for better city planning as mayors decide which areas most need sewers, roads and other basics. The interactive, online map was created with an open-source database that lets any and all volunteers add the location of roads and buildings in unmapped places."

MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
This site has been collecting and reporting information about the number of people killed by police since 2013.  The data is intended to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing work to end police violence in America.

MORE RECOMMENDED READING ON RACE / POVERTY - LIST ON DROP BOX
click  here
In 2017 I started building a list of articles about the 45th President of the US and root causes of racism, poverty and inequality. Take a look.

MURDER RATES HIGHER IN RED STATES FOR PAST 20 YEARS
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem
This article, titled "The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem" goes into detail to show that the "murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump  has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020."  This is not the story the media are reporting.  Take a look. 


NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datasources/nvdrs/
From the web site: "The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) provides states and communities with a clearer understanding of violent deaths to guide local decisions about efforts to prevent violence and track progress over time. NVDRS is the only state-based surveillance (reporting) system that pools data on violent deaths from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. These sources include state and local medical examiner, coroner, law enforcement, toxicology, and vital statistics records."

OPPORTUNITY INDEX - A MAP-BASED TOOL FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
https://opportunityindex.org/#4.00/40.00/-97.00/
From the web site: "The Opportunity Index focuses on the conditions present in different communities and is designed to connect economic, academic, civic and other factors together to help identify concrete solutions to lagging conditions for opportunity and economic mobility. From preschool enrollment to income inequality, from volunteerism to access to healthy food, expanding opportunity depends on the intersection of multiple factors."  Visit the web site and learn to use this in creating your own stories about where and why extra help is needed in communities across the USA.

POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT DATA FOR CHICAGO
http://wire.cjc.net/data-sets/poverty-thresholds/
This web site provides a listing of poverty figures for different geographic levels in the state of Illinois (state, county, city, community area, etc.), and additional tools for understanding poverty in Illinois.

RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE CMAP (CHICAGO) REGION - 2015 REPORT
https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/updates/all/-/asset_publisher/UIMfSLnFfMB6/content/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-cmap-region
From the web site: "On December 3, 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The ACS collects information such as ancestry, educational attainment, income, employment, and housing characteristics and makes this data available at multiple geographic levels, including municipality and township.  This release of the ACS marks the first time that users and analysts are able to compare two non-overlapping 5-year ACS datasets (2005-2009 and 2010-2014), and the first time that many of the region's smaller communities will be able to see this change for their jurisdictions. This Policy Update is part of a series that uses the most recent ACS data to examine broad trends in the CMAP region."

RELATIONAL POVERTY NETWORK -
http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/
From the web site: "The Relational Poverty Network convenes a community of scholars, working within and beyond academia, to develop conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogies for the study of relational poverty. Launched at a historical moment of dramatic income inequality and enforced austerity in the global North, the RPN thinks across geographical boundaries to foster a transnational and comparative approach to poverty research.  In doing so, it pays attention to new global geographies of development, new forms of regulating poverty, and analyses from those often marginalized by poverty debates.  Building on a long tradition of critical work on poverty, it shifts from thinking about ‘the poor and poor others’ to thinking about relationships of power and privilege." 

RICH BLOCKS POOR BLOCKS - MAPPING POVERTY AND AFFLUENCE - DATA BLOG
https://richblockspoorblocks.com/
Use the interactive map on this site to look at the different levels of affluence in different parts of the Chicago region and the USA.  This link points to a blog which uses maps view in its stories.

SOCIAL IMPACT RESEARCH CENTER OF HEARTLAND ALLIANCE - POVERTY DATA
https://www.heartlandalliance.org/illinois-poverty-data-dashboards/
From the web site: "The Social IMPACT Research Center continually tracks poverty-related indicators for the nation and for a variety of geographies in Illinois and across the Midwest."

THE COST OF GUN VIOLENCE IN WEST ATHENS WESTMONT, CALIFORNIA
https://costofviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/West-Athens-Wesmont.pdf
This report by the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, https://nicjr.org/, shows the cost of gun violence in West Athens - Westmont, California.  

THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF CONCENTRATED POVERTY, 2000 TO 2008-2012
https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/the-growth-and-spread-of-concentrated-poverty-2000-to-2008-2012/#/M10420
This 2014 Brookings.edu report has interactive maps and loads of data that can be used to help build an understanding of where poverty is most concentrated, and where Tutor/Mentor Connection strategies could be adopted.

THE LONG REACH OF AMERICAN CORRECTIONS - 2009 PEW REPORT
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2009/03/02/one-in-31-the-long-reach-of-american-corrections
From the web site: "One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections examines the scale and cost of prison, jail, probation and parole in each of the 50 states, and provides a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of the the pdf report and look at how maps are used. 

THE OTHER PROBLEM WITH CHICAGO'S SEGREGATION: CONCENTRATED WEALTH
https://www.metroplanning.org/news/7147/The-other-problem-with-Chicagos-segregation-Concentrated-wealth
This article on the Metropolitan Chicago Planning Council web site includes maps that show the extreme segregation of race and class in Chicago.  

UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITIES OF DEEP DISADVANTAGE - U MICHIGAN POVERTY SOLUTIONS
https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/understanding-communities-of-deep-disadvantage/
From the website: "What does disadvantage look like in America? And where are the nation’s most disadvantaged communities? With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University explored this question and developed an Index of Deep Disadvantage to identify and better understand America’s most disadvantaged communities."  The site includes an interactive map that shows an "Index of Disadvantage" for every county in the US.

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN CHICAGO - 222 URBAN INSTITUTE INTERACTIVE MAP
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/chicago-neighborhoods-have-stark-differences-economic-opportunity?
This map shows the richest areas of Cook County Illinois (including Chicago) and the poorest.  

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN AMERICA - 2017 BROOKINGS.EDU ARTICLE
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
This 2017 article includes nine charts that help explain wealth-inequality in America. 

WORLDMAPPER PROJECT CARTOGRAMS SHOW POVERTY GAP
https://worldmapper.org/
This site uses cartograms to create a better understanding of the issues of population or mortality. These maps show the gaps between rich and poor in an easy-to-understand way.

YOUTH DISCONNECTION IN AMERICA TODAY - 2018 REPORT
https://measureofamerica.org/DYinteractive/
From the web site: "This site is a visualization of the information contained in Measure of America's latest report, More Than a Million Reasons for Hope. Explore here and then read the full report.  Measure of America provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards." This link points to a page with interactive maps that enable you to zoom into local areas of the USA.

ZEROING IN ON PLACE AND RACE - MAPPING DISCONNECTED YOUTH
https://measureofamerica.org/youth-disconnection-2015/
From the web site: "Zeroing In on Place and Race is an in-depth look at how disconnected youth are faring in America’s cities, with data included on disconnected youth by state, congressional district, county, gender, and by race and ethnicity. Disconnected youth are teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither working nor in school."  Browse the site and take a look at the maps.

100 CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR GUN VIOLENCE RESEARCH - 2021
https://www.joycefdn.org/research-reports/insights-research-reports-100-critical-questions-for-gun-violence-research
From the Joyce Foundation website: "The 2021 report, “The Next 100 Questions: A Research Agenda for Ending Gun Violence,” outlines key areas of focus for public and private sector efforts to build the science of gun violence prevention with actionable findings for policy makers and practitioners over the next five years. The report was written in collaboration with an advisory panel of scientific experts and includes input from dozens of researchers in the field."

A DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW TO REFORM POLICING - NY TIMES - 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/13/magazine/police-reform.html
This link points to an in-depth 6-14-2020 article in the New York Times Magazine about why and how to reform policing in the US.  

A DISCUSSION OF CORRUPTION - POVERTY TO POWER BLOG
https://oxfamapps.org/fp2p/how-to-talk-about-corruption-when-its-everywhere-but-invisible/
This blog article and the comments section is a rich resource for research on corruption in many countries.

ADVANCEMENT PROJECT
https://advancementproject.org/
From the web site: "Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, we exist to fulfill America's promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. We use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change."

ANTI-RECIDIVISM (ARC) - WORKS TO HELP WITH RE-ENTRY AND REFORM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
https://antirecidivism.org/about-us/
From the web site: "ARC began as an annual camping trip bringing together a few dozen formerly incarcerated young people with positive mentors to offer encouragement, guidance, and resources. Today, the Coalition has grown into a support and advocacy network of more than 300 members, and hundreds of volunteer mentors and allies, committed to helping one another through reentry, and advocating for a fairer criminal justice system."

AS MANY AMERICANS HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS AS COLLEGE DIPLOMAS
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/just-facts-many-americans-have-criminal-records-college-diplomas
This is 2015 article that continues to have relevance in 2020s. It states, “With as many criminal convictions as college degrees, it's more evident than ever why “ban the box” laws are important for the economy.

CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE | NYU SCHOOL OF LAW
https://chrgj.org/projects-initiatives/
From the web site: "The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice was established in 2002 to bring together and expand the rich array of teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities undertaken within New York University School of Law on issues of international human rights law." Browse the site to learn what resources are available.

CENTER ON RACE AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS - U. PITTSBURGH
https://www.crsp.pitt.edu/about
From the web site: "The mission of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP) is to conduct applied social science research on race, color, ethnicity and their influence on the quality of life for all Americans." 

CHILDREN AND FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER AT NORTHWESTERN
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/cfjc/
From the web site: "Providing access to justice for unrepresented youth is a core mission of the CFJC. Each year, CFJC faculty, staff and students represent young people on a wide range of matters, from delinquency to immigration and asylum to cases addressing harsh sentencing practices or the collateral consequences youth face after coming into contact with the law. Oftentimes, the CFJC gives its young clients access to a lawyer when they otherwise would not have one." 

CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT AT AT UCLA
https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/about-us
From the web site: "Its mission is to create a new generation of research in social science and law, on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the United States." 

COMMUNITIES FOR JUST SCHOOLS FUND
https://www.cjsfund.org/
From the website: "Communities for Just Schools is a national collaborative that links philanthropy with the power of grassroots organizing to transform schools. It's a movement born to end the school-to-prison pipeline."

COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (RJ) HUBS IN CHICAGO
https://rjhubs.org/
From the web site: "RJ Hubs are a community led restorative justice approach to youth crime and conflict. Our vision is that RJ Hubs are safe spaces in the community where youth are welcomed and supported in building healthy relationships, expressing themselves, addressing trauma, and developing necessary skills and competencies.  Importantly, the RJ Hub model is directly informed by the latest science on childhood trauma. It is designed as a strategy for helping people to move beyond the effects of adverse childhood experiences, guiding them towards sustainable healing and growth."

COUNCIL FOR A STRONG AMERICA - FIGHT CRIME, INVEST IN KIDS
https://www.strongnation.org/fightcrime
From the web site: "Founded in 1996, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids takes a hard-nosed look at the strategies proven to reduce crime. Armed with research, our more than 5,000 members make the case for solutions that cut crime and put kids on the path to productive lives."

DEFINING ECONOMIC JUSTICE - CESJ WEBSITE
https://www.cesj.org/learn/definitions/defining-economic-justice-and-social-justice/
This page on the Center for Economic and Social Justice website provides its definition of economic and social justice.  

ENDING THE "CRADLE TO PRISON" PIPELINE CAMPAIGN
https://www.childrensdefense.org/child-watch-columns/health/2012/ending-the-cradle-to-prison-pipeline-and-mass-incarceration-the-new-american-jim-crow/
This is a 2012 article on the  Children's Defense Fund's  (CDF) web site. Look in the "Policies" section of the site for other emphasis areas.

EQUAL JUSTICE AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION (PDF)
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED471045
This 2002 pdf is titled: "Using Technology to Meet the Legal Needs of Low-Income People"  This report is a blueprint for how tutor/mentor programs can learn to share ideas and actions that help low-income youth move to careers. The T/MC seeks partners from the Equal Justice Community who want to explore opportunities for cross-sector collaboration, enabled by the use of technology.

EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE - BRYAN STEPHENSON
https://eji.org/about/
From the web site: "The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author of Just Mercy, EJI is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons. We challenge the death penalty and excessive punishment and we provide re-entry assistance to formerly incarcerated people."  Browse the site. Learn about the issues and resources available. Get involved.

EQUAL JUSTICE USA
https://ejusa.org/about-us/
From the web site: "Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) is a national organization that works to make the criminal justice system more fair, effective, and responsive by ending the death penalty, strengthening programs that help crime survivors address trauma and rebuild their lives, promoting constructive responses to violence, and enacting common sense criminal justice reforms."

FIND LEGAL SERVICES IN EVERY STATE
https://www.lawhelp.org/find-help
From the web site: "LawHelp.org has been created for people living on low-incomes and the legal organizations that serve them. LawHelp.org provides referrals to local legal aid and public interest law offices, basic information about legal rights, court forms, self-help information, court information, links to social service agencies, and more in your state." 

GOVERNMENT ALLIANCE ON RACE AND EQUITY (GARE)
https://www.racialequityalliance.org/
From the web site: "The Government Alliance on Race and Equity is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all." 

HALL OF JUSTICE - PUBLICLY AVAILABLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATASETS AND RESEARCH.
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/02/02/sunlight-launches-hall-of-justice-a-massive-data-inventory-on-criminal-justice-across-the-u-s/
From the web site: "Sunlight is launched the Hall of Justice in 2016 with this message: It will be a robust, searchable data inventory of nearly 10,000 datasets and research documents from across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the federal government. Hall of Justice is the culmination of 18 months of work gathering data and refining technology." On Sept. 2020 the site closed. It is an archive only.

HOW MATTERS - LOOKING BEYOND US BORDERS FOR SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY & RACISM
https://medium.com/@1000Currents/numbness-sorrow-rage-then-solutions-948f6af8cc43#.5gvo8htnz
This article, along with others, on the How Matters web site looks at way to overcome complex problems and provides a list of recommended reading for deeper learning and engagement. The collection of articles represents an extensive reading list.

ILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE
https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/
From the web site: "We can guide you to resources to help you with your legal problem, including court forms, legal information, and referrals to free or low-cost legal aid lawyers. Or you can find legal self-help centers at courthouses and libraries across the state, where staff can help you use this site." 

INCARCERATION REFORM DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER
https://incarcerationreform.com/
This web site is an extensive digital library of resources focusing on a wide range of justice related issues. Primarily focuses on Chicago but the resources add value to research being done in any city.

INCREASING PIPELINE OPPORTUNITIES IN LAW COMMUNITY
https://ccbjournal.com/articles/increasing-pipeline-opportunities-legal-profession-minorities
In this article, Titled Increasing Pipeline Opportunities in the Legal Community, the writer says, "The legal profession faces no greater challenge in the 21st century than the critical need to diversify its rank."  If you're part of the legal community I hope you read this and see the Tutor/Mentor Connection as a strategy to achieve this goal. 

INVISIBLE INSTITUTE - CITIZEN'S POLICE DATA PROJECT (CHICAGO)
https://invisible.institute/police-data/
From the web site: "Invisible Institute is a journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago. We work to enhance the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable."  This link points to the Chicago Police Data Project which "is a portrait of impunity backed by the police department's own data. We built CPDP so that data about police activity can be useful to the public." View the video when you go to the site.

JUSTICE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS ASSOCIATION
https://www.jrsa.org/index.html
From the web site:  "The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations dedicated to policy-orientated research and analysis. Created in 1974, JRSA serves to promote the exchange of information among the SACs, enabling them to work towards common goals, and as a liaison between the state agencies and the Justice Department. " 

JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE OF ILLINOIS
https://jjustice.org/
MISSION; The Juvenile Justice Initiative is a statewide advocacy coalition to transform the juvenile justice system.  The JJI advocates to reduce reliance on detention, to enhance fairness for all youth and to develop adequate community based resources throughout the state; The JJI is a response to the significant changes in the juvenile justice system in Illinois and across the country. Although the number of crimes committed by juveniles is decreasing, the number of youths in custody is increasing. The Juvenile Justice Initiative works to inform and educate policy makers, the media, and the general public about the alarming increase in number of juveniles held in custody, about the disparate number of minority youth in custody, and about the lack of adequate community based alternatives to detention.

KEY CRIME POLICY FINDINGS - CHICAGO CRIME LAB INFO
https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/labs/crime
As media draw public attention to inner city violence with weekly stories, web sites like this provide information that can help people dig deeper to understand the roots of the problem, and potential solutions.

LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER - JUVENILE JUSTICE AND YOUNG ADULT PROGRAMS
https://lclc.net/criminal-legal-defense/
From the web site: "LCLC serves youth involved with the criminal justice system, age 24 and younger, in North Lawndale. We provide youth with a unique integration of legal and social services to empower them to develop self-reliance. We come alongside youth who have been accused of an act of delinquency in the Cook County Juvenile Justice Division or who have been accused of a crime in the Cook County Criminal Justice Division (adult court)."

LAWYERS LEND-A-HAND PROGRAM AT CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION
https://www.lawyerslendahand.org/
The SunTimes Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lending a Hand to Youth Program is an example of how business, professional groups, churches and civic organizations can mobilize resources to support tutor/mentor programs in all poverty areas of a big city like Chicago.  This web site illustrates how lawyers, judges and law firms in Chicago are raising visibility, recruiting volunteers and raising dollars to support one-on-one tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. They also operate their own tutoring program.  This is a model that should be duplicated in every industry and in law firms all over the country. 

NOTE: The Tutor/Mentor Connection was part of the executive board for Lawyers Lend A Hand from 1994 through 2008 and received funding from the Lawyers Lending a Hand to Youth Program each year from 1994-2009.   Through the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, formed in 2011, we seek to help businesses grow this type of strategy in every industry in Chicago and other cities.

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
https://www.lsc.gov/i-am-grantee
From the web site: "LSC is the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income residents in the U.S. and U.S. territories. The organizations that we fund help people who live in households with annual incomes at or below 125 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines."

LEGAL SERVICES LINKS
http://www.ptla.org/links
An extensive library of links hosted by Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a non-profit corporation providing legal assistance to people in the State of Maine.

LEGAL SERVICES NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
https://www.lsntap.org/
From the web site: "NTAP helps nonprofit legal aid programs improve client services through effective and innovative use of technology. To do this, we provide technology training, maintain information, create online tools, and host community forums such as the LSNTAP email list."

LEX MUNDI PRO BONO FOUNDATION - LAW FOR CHANGE
https://www.lexmundiprobono.org/lexmundiprobono/default.asp
From the web site:  "Inspired social entrepreneurs are working around the world to improve education, fight disease, combat global warming, protect civil rights and lift individuals out of poverty. For every grand challenge, there are dedicated social entrepreneurs working on creative solutions. Our mission at the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation is clear: social entrepreneurs will be more successful at tackling the worlds’ biggest challenges if they have access to quality pro bono legal advice from lawyers in the Lex Mundi global network. Social enterprises will scale faster, serve more people, expand more quickly to new territories, raise more money, and have greater success."

MEASURES OF JUSTICE - COUNTY-LEVEL DATA PLATFORM
https://measuresforjustice.org/about/story
From the web site; "Measures for Justice (MFJ) was founded in 2011 to develop a data-driven set of performance measures to assess and compare the criminal justice process from arrest to post-conviction on a county-by-county basis. The data set comprises measures that address three broad categories: Fiscal Responsibility, Fair Process, and Public Safety."  The site offers extensive data for data scientists and story tellers. Take time to explore. Share with potential users.

MODELS FOR CHANGE: SYSTEMS REFORM IN JUV. JUSTICE
http://www.modelsforchange.net/about/index.html
From the web site: "Models for Change supports a network of government and court officials, legal advocates, educators, community leaders, and families working together to ensure that kids who make mistakes are held accountable and treated fairly throughout the juvenile justice process.  Through modelsforchange.net, the initiative provides research-based tools and techniques to make juvenile justice more fair, effective, rational and developmentally appropriate." 

NATIONAL COALITION ON SCHOOL DIVERSITY - RESOURCE PAGE
https://www.school-diversity.org/members/
From the web site: "The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) is a network of national civil rights organizations, university-based research centers, and state and local coalitions working to expand support for government policies that promote school diversity and reduce racial isolation. We also support the work of state and local school diversity practitioners. Our work is informed by an advisory panel of scholars and academic researchers whose work relates to issues of equity, diversity, and desegregation/integration."

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES - RESOURCE LIBRARY
https://www.nlc.org/resources-training/resource-library/
From the web site: "The National League of Cities (NLC) is dedicated to helping city leaders build better communities. Working in partnership with the 49 state municipal leagues, NLC serves as a resource to and an advocate for the more than 19,000 cities, villages and towns it represents." This link points to one of many topic areas on the site. 

NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE - CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE
https://chiul.org/
From the web site: "The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League spearheads the efforts of its local affiliates through the development of programs, public policy research and advocacy. Today, the National Urban League has 95 affiliates serving 300 communities, in 35 states and the District of Columbia, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide." 

ORGANIZATIONS IN US ADDRESSING POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE
https://fundersforjustice.org/
This  map on the FundersforJustice web site shows organizations around the country who focus on this issue. The web site is described this way: "This is a virtual organizing space for funders and affinity groups to connect with each other and with the movement for racial justice and police accountability across the country. This web portal is intended to help enable philanthropy’s role in partnering with our communities to create and live in vibrant, healthy, prosperous, democratic communities."

PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/
From the website: "The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society." View the maps and report showing where people in prisons come from. 

PRO BONO NET
https://www.probono.net/
From the web site: "We work to bring the power of the law to all by building cutting-edge digital tools and fostering collaborations with the nation’s leading civil legal organizations."

QUESTIONS TO ASK POLICE CHIEFS - JULY 2020 ARTICLE
https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/questions-to-ask-police-chiefs
This article by Alec Copaganda includes a list of questions every Police chief in the country should be asking on a regular basis.  Take a look. 

RACE AND BEYOND: WHY YOUNG, MINORITY, AND LOW-INCOME CITIZENS DON’T VOTE
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2014/11/06/100627/why-young-minority-and-low-income-citizens-dont-vote/
“The reason politicians ignore so many of the working poor is that they don’t vote,.... And the reason so many of the working poor don’t vote is that certain politicians have made sure it’s as inconvenient as possible for them.”  If we're going to take power in this country away from the wealthy minority, we need to find ways to bring the masses to the voting booth.

RACE, POVERTY, POLICE, FERGUSON, MO. - READING LIST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
In the aftermath of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO there have been countless articles written, some from a conservative perspective and some from a liberal perspective. Instead of trying to build a library of such articles on the Tutor/Mentor Connection, I'm pointing to a Wikipedia page which is building links to numerous articles written in 2014, and others written after similar high profile incidents in the past. 

RECLAIMING THE PROMISE OF RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION, ECONOMICS AND OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM - PDF
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/racial_equity_taskforce_10-8-15.pdf
From the web site: "This report of the Racial Equity Task Force of the American Federation of Teachers expresses our shared vision and charts a path for our union in the fight to reclaim the promise of racial equity."  This report shows goals that many could share.

REENTRY COURT SOLUTIONS: A RESOURCE FOR COMMUNITY BASED REENTRY SYSTEMS
http://www.reentrycourtsolutions.com/most-read/
From the web site: "REENTRY COURT SOLUTIONS (RCS) is designed to provide critical information, resources, and assistance to those interested in developing effective Reentry Courts and Evidence-Based Sentencing Systems. We will  share our knowledge, experience, and expertise with those who wish to learn, and learn and disseminate information from those who wish to share what they know." 

ROBERT REICH.ORG - IDEAS FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY
https://robertreich.org/post/72770488951
From the web site: "Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, and was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration.   Articles and ideas shared on this site focus on creating "a new political coalition of America’s poor and working middle class, bent not only on repairing the nation’s frayed safety nets but also on getting a fair share of the economies’ gains."

SAFETY AND JUSTICE CHALLENGE - SUPPORTED BY MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
https://safetyandjusticechallenge.org/
From the web site: "The Safety and Justice Challenge is providing support to local leaders from across the country who are determined to tackle one of the greatest drivers of over-incarceration in America—the misuse and overuse of jails."

SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER ON POVERTY LAW - CLEARING HOUSE TOOLBOX
https://www.povertylaw.org/about-us/
From the web site: "The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law provides national leadership in advancing laws and policies that secure justice to improve the lives and opportunities of people living in poverty."

SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND PRACTICE GROUP - RESOURCES
http://www.policymagic.org/resources.htm
Social Welfare Policy and Practice Group at South Carolina University encourages the study and teaching of social welfare policy practice within social work education. This link points to a page with links to an extensive list of social policy resources. 

THE CHICAGO LAWYER'S COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS - EDUCATION INITIATIVE
https://www.clccrul.org/mission-values-history
From the web site: "The mission of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. (CLC) is to protect and promote civil rights by bringing the strength and prestige of the private bar to bear on the problems of poverty and discrimination.  This project hopes to prevent, reduce, and eliminate the known disproportionate complications in the classroom burdening minority and low-income communities in the Chicago area. To do this, The Chicago Lawyer's Committee is partnering with a variety of organizations and law firms to help address community concerns about the educational injustices they face."

THE MARSHALL PROJECT: NON-PROFIT JOURNALISM ABOUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE
https://www.themarshallproject.org/about?via=navright
From the web site: "Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles on the topics, people and events that are shaping the criminal justice conversation. The Marshall Project does not endorse the viewpoints or vouch for the accuracy of reports other than its own."

TRANSFORM HARM - RESOURCE HUB FOR ENDING VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO
https://transformharm.org/
From the web site: "TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice. The site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more." 

YOUTH COURT: A PATH TO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
https://youthcourt.net/
From the web site:  "Youth court programs strive to nurture in youth a respect for the rule of law, help develop positive citizenship attitudes, encourage civic engagement, and promote educational success through a diversity of service learning opportunities, strategies and activities. Youth courts are structured to provide positive alternative sanctions for first-time offenders by providing a peer-driven sentencing mechanism that allows young people to take responsibility, to be held accountable, and to make restitution. Positive peer pressure is used in youth courts to exert influence over adolescent behavior."

YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES (YOU) - JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES
https://www.yos.org/services/juvenile-justice
YOU serves youth and families on Chicago's West side. Visit their web site to learn about their juvenile justice and prevention programs and how they partner with schools and educators, coalitions, community-based organizations and social service agencies.

Why are volunteer-based tutor and/or mentor programs needed? Where are they most needed? What more do volunteers need to do to help kids and families in high poverty areas?

This section of the library has six sub-sections where
the T/MC and T/MI have been aggregating links to
articles and research showing the history and impact
of segregation, racism, concentrated poverty, wealth
inequality, and related issues..

This concept map is a visual guide to each section.

Open the links to find a list of websites
under each category.  If you find broken
links, please send a notice to 
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net.

Equal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Poverty Law - click here

Poverty and Crime Mapping - click here

Poverty, Race, Inequality - click here


Prevention Resources - click here


Housing & Community Development - click here


Violence Against Women & Girls - click here


Street Gangs - click here


Rural Issues - click here