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Playlist: Powerful art activism (9 talks)

Art that doesn’t just grab your attention, but sends a message, makes a statement and resonates.
Curated by TED · 9 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/powerful_art_activism

Sue Desmond-Hellmann | TED Speaker

Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission to establish equity for every person.
CEO, Gates Foundation
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sue_desmond_hellman

Robert Palmer | TED Speaker

Robert Palmer investigates how the financial system facilitates corruption and other crimes.
Campaign leader, Global Witness
https://www.ted.com/speakers/robert_palmer

Casey Gerald | TED Speaker

In his memoir, "There Will Be No Miracles Here," Casey Gerald reimagines what it means to truly live and succeed in our society.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/casey_gerald

Dorothy Roberts | TED Speaker

Global scholar, University of Pennsylvania civil rights sociologist and law professor Dorothy Roberts exposes the myths of race-­based medicine.
Professor, author and social justice advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dorothy_roberts

Heather C. McGhee | TED Speaker

Heather C. McGhee designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America, showing what individuals, governments and the private sector can do to help the country live up to its ideals.
Writer, advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/heather_c_mcghee

Allyson Felix | TED Speaker

The most decorated track and field Olympian in history, Allyson Felix is now taking her talents to the business world.
Olympian, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/allyson_felix

Playlist: Photojournalism -- close up and personal (16 talks)

These photographers capture beautiful and sometimes sobering images, using their art to help fight for social justice.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/close_up_and_personal

Playlist: TED MacArthur Grant winners (16 talks)

A collection of talks from creative individuals striving to bring light to some of the world's most pressing issues.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/ted_macarthur_grant_winners

Brenda Romero | TED Speaker

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.
Game designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/brenda_brathwaite

Jennifer L. Eberhardt | TED Speaker

A social psychologist at Stanford University, Jennifer L. Eberhardt conducts research on race and inequality.
Professor, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jennifer_eberhardt

Candis Watts Smith | TED Speaker

Candis Smith is on a mission to eliminate outdated, inaccurate commonsense ideas about inequality.
Political scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/candis_watts_smith

Gautam Bhan | TED Speaker

Gautam Bhan studies how cities produce and reproduce poverty and inequality.
Urbanist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gautam_bhan

The damaging effects of inequality

"If there is this big difference, with some people worth everything and other people worth nothing, where do you come?" So asks Richard Wilkinson in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary based on his influential book The Spirit Level. Wilkinson, an epidemiologist, spent his career examining health issues caused or worsened by poverty and i...
Posted June 28, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/since-the-ted-talk-an-update-from-richard-wilkinson

David Autor | TED Speaker

David Autor's work assesses the labor market consequences of technological change and globalization.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_autor

Sarah Jones | TED Speaker

Tony Award-winning monologist, UNICEF ambassador, firebrand and FCC-fighting poet -- Sarah Jones assumes as many roles offstage as on.
Polymorphic playwright
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_jones

Why is inequality the big hot issue right now?

Writer Jimmy Guterman takes society's temperature and digs into the reasons we're all talking about inequality. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is a book of our moment. It may be the most unlikely egghead highbrow bestseller since A Brief History of Time – and it’s a lot longer than Stephen Hawking’s slender guide. Piketty’s 577-...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/why-is-inequality-the-big-hot-issue-right-now

Paul Piff | TED Speaker

Paul Piff studies how social hierarchy, inequality and emotion shape relations between individuals and groups.
Social psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_piff

David Wengrow | TED Speaker

David Wengrow proposes new ways to think about the history of human social development -- and the rise of inequality.
Archaeologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_wengrow

William "Sandy" Darity | TED Speaker

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/william_sandy_darity

Jenna C. Lester | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Jenna C. Lester is working to fix dermatology's problem with skin color.
Dermatologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jenna_c_lester

Nancy N. Chen | TED Speaker

Engaging scientific knowledge, Nancy N. Chen examines the intersections of medicine, political economy and social inequality.
Medical anthropologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_chen

Gallery: What inequality looks like

Inequality is a complicated term. It can be applied to so many factors, for one thing. There's income inequality, asset inequality, gender inequality, social, class, political ... you name it, someone, somewhere likely feels (and is) hard done by. And, for all the focus that Thomas Piketty has gained for his analysis of a new, ever-diverging glo...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-what-inequality-looks-like

Isabelle Boemeke | TED Speaker

Isabelle Boemeke is the world's first nuclear energy influencer.
Nuclear energy influencer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/isabelle_boemeke

Kimberly Noble | TED Speaker

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, studies how socioeconomic inequality relates to children's cognitive and brain development.
Neuroscientist, pediatrician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kimberly_noble

Sonia Shah | TED Speaker

Science historian Sonia Shah explores the surprisingly fascinating story behind an ancient scourge: malaria.
Science writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sonia_shah

Cathy O'Neil | TED Speaker

Data skeptic Cathy O’Neil uncovers the dark secrets of big data, showing how our "objective" algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias.
Mathematician, data scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/cathy_o_neil

Sarah Kurnick | TED Speaker

Sarah Kurnick specializes in the ancient Maya and her research focuses on the creation, perpetuation and negation of inequality.
Archaeologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_kurnick

Danny Dorling | TED Speaker

Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world.
Social geographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/danny_dorling

Playlist: The roots -- and effects -- of income inequality

Explore these TEDTalks that discuss income inequality -- what causes it, the brutal effects, and how we might fight it. Start with this talk from Richard Wilkinson, whose 2009 book The Spirit Level gathers decades of research to draw this conclusion: Societies with more income inequality suffer -- in utterly predictable ways -- more than soci...
Posted May 17, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/05/17/playlist-the-roots-and-effects-of-income-equality
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