Feb 25 Watch 2:29 Poet Mahogany L. Browne on ‘black girl magic’ By PBS News Hour Mahogany L. Browne is a poet and author coordinating the Women of the World Poetry Slam at New York’s Pratt Institute. She gives her Brief But Spectacular take on “Black Girl Magic” and the struggles facing African-American women in modern… Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch 5:42 New York Times unveils lost snapshots of black history By PBS News Hour The New York Times has begun to unpack never-before-seen photographs that help fill in a portrait of African-American history. Why did these images of historic moments and well-known figures go unpublished for so long? Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Rachel… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch Need persists for new generation of Freedom Schools, 50 years after first summer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch Expansion of My Brother’s Keeper initiative aims to end ‘schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch To tackle racial disparity in Wisconsin’s capital, community leaders start with the very young By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 23 Watch Memphis churches rally to close disparity in breast cancer survival rates By PBS News Hour The rate of breast cancer deaths for African American women nationally is 40 percent greater than that of white women, according to a study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology. In Memphis, the city with the widest disparity, a… Continue watching
Apr 02 Post-recession economy leaving many blacks behind, Urban League reports By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press While unemployment has been a major impediment to African-Americans' economic progress, underemployment is a bigger obstacle for them than it is for whites or Hispanics, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report. Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch How should the U.S. improve opportunity for young men of color? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Unemployment rates are higher for young people, minorities By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch How the Civil Rights Movement Launched the Fight for LGBT, Women’s Equality How the Civil Rights Movement Launched the Fight for LGBT, Women's Equality… Continue watching