25 Movies and Shows I’ve Used to Effectively Teach about Systemic Injustice, Racism, Privilege and Policing

The Couch Tamale
19 min readJun 6, 2020
Ameena Matthews in ‘The Interrupters’ (Kartemquin Films, PBS Frontline)

Recently a 15 year-old student in my class said that he yearned for more education to help him understand the signs of the times. “I look at social media, but after a while all I start seeing is box after box after box.” It’s too much and not enough, he seemed to say.

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The Couch Tamale

Film, Music, Peak TV, Diversity— Tom Cendejas is sitting on a sofa and unwrapping Pop Culture with a Latino eye, one husk at a time. tomcend@gmail.com