RESOURCE LIST

1. Racial Justice and Racism

a. Racist Housing Policies Have Created Some Oppressively Hot
Neighborhoods
b. Riot Act: How Capitol Attack Showed Our Differences in Blank and
White
c. What School Segregation Looks Like in the U.S. Today, in Four Charts
d. I’m Tired. But I’m Marching
e. Pro Con: Reparations for Slavery
f. Suffering From Racist Acts Can Prompt Black Teens to Constructive
Action
2. Climate Change
a. Both Sides: What Should Be Done About Climate Change?
b. Indigenous Youth Take Global Stage in Madrid to Voice Climate
Change Worries
c. Both Sides: The Government’s Role in Protecting the Environment
d. Climate Change Could Make Blizzards More Intense, Scientists Say
e. Both Sides: Leaving the Paris Climate Agreement
3. Social Media
a. Social Media’s Effects on Young People Aren’t All Negative
b. Negative, Positive Effects of Excessive Social Media Use on Teens
Studied
c. Student Opinion: Is the Internet Teaching Young People Not to
Think?
d. ProCon: Social Networking
4. Online Learning
a. Online Learning is Impacting Students’ Mental Health
b. Students Survey Peers About Online Learning, Socializing During a
Pandemic
c. Healthy Screen Time is One Challenge of Distance Learning
5. Prison/the Death Penalty
a. Issue Overview: Why Mass Incarceration Looms as a Campaign
Issue
b. ProCon: Is the Death Penalty Immoral?
c. Will COVID-19 Shut Down Youth Prisons For Good?
d. The U.S. Prison System Can Harm Young Brains, Scientist Warns
6. Free college and/or debt forgiveness
a. Both Sides: Should We Cancel Student Debt?
b. Poll Shows Young Americans Want National Health Care and Free
Tuition
c. Free College for All is a Popular Rallying Cry, but is it Realistic?
7. Gun Control
a. Students Vote: Students Share Their Views on Gun Laws
b. ProCon: Gun Control
8. Video Games and Violence
a. Student Opinion: Video Gaming can be Harmless and Even Helpful.
b. Study Suggests Video Games Can Help Mental Health
c. ProCon: Video Games and Violence
d. Video Games Called a “Great Equalizer” for People with Special
Needs
9. Income Inequality
a. Both Sides: Digging Deeper on Income Inequality
b. The Rise of Organized Labor in the United States
c. Both Sides: Does America Need a Wealth Tax?
d. Both Sides: Billionaires
10. Police
a. Angela Davis Article
b. ProCon: Defunding the Police
c. Boycott: NBA Games Called Off Amid Player Protest Over Police
Shooting
d. Study Shows Negative Impact of Police in Oakland Schools
11. Socialism, Capitalism, Global Issues
a. Both Sides: Debating Capitalism
b. What We Don’t Learn About The Black Panther Party - but Should
c. Both Sides: Did Socialism Cause Venezuela’s Crisis
d. Both Sides: Capitalism and Poverty
12. Standardized Tests
a. No More SATs: What it Means for this Upcoming Senior
b. Admissions Scandal Hurtful to Students with Learning Disabilities
c. ProCon: Standardized Tests
13. LGBTQ+ Rights
a. Justices Rule LGBT People Protected from Job Discrimination
b. What Happened at the StoneWall Riots? A Timeline of the 1969
Uprising
c. Compton’s Cafeteria Riot: An Act of Trans Resistance
14. Women’s Rights
a. Young Women of Color Lead Activist Charge
b. Both Sides: Gender Pay Gap
c. What a New Supreme Court Justice Could Mean for Young
Women’s Reproductive Rights
15. Animal Rights
a. Student Opinion: Zoos Should be Banned
b. Both Sides: The Endangered Species Act
c. ProCon: Animal Testing
16. Pollution
a. Unmasking the Pandemic’s Pollution Problem
b. ProCon: Green New Deal
17. COVID
a. Both Sides: The COVID-19 Shutdown
b. Millions of Likely U.S. COVID-19 Cases Have Gone Undiagnosed