Apr 14 Watch 7:48 Inside the Chicago Police Department’s race problem By PBS News Hour An accountability task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel found that the Chicago Police Department has engaged in a long pattern of institutionalized racism that has alienated black and Hispanic residents. For more on what the report means for Chicago,… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch 2:46 Clinton-Sanders campaign combat cools off By PBS News Hour As Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton reached a kind of verbal truce over who's qualified to be president, the front-runner's camp also dealt with a confrontation that occurred between former President Bill Clinton and a protester over his and… Continue watching
Mar 15 As protests increase, student demands get more ambitious By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed The number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance. Continue reading
Jan 22 Oberlin president says no to black students’ demands By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed Marvin Krislov, the president, said that while some of the demands "resonate with me and many members of our community, including our trustees," he would not respond directly to the proposals from black students, which were termed nonnegotiable. Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch 3:31 Report: 1 in 10 people fatally shot by police in 2015 were unarmed By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 06 Expert: Tamir Rice did not reach for gun, countering officer’s claims By Michael D. Regan An expert said this week that Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy who was fatally shot by white Cleveland police officer last year while carrying what turned out to be a replica toy gun, did not reach for the pellet… Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 10:55 Did dashboard video of black teen’s killing prompt murder charge for Chicago cop? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 04 New report reveals half of black millennials know victim of police violence By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says. Continue reading
Oct 23 Obama defends Black Lives Matter movement By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities. Continue reading
Sep 21 Race relations in U.S. at a low point in recent history, new poll suggests By Margaret Myers In the year following the death of Michael Brown, America has seen its share of racial disquiet. It is with this backdrop that PBS NewsHour and Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion conducted a survey of Americans that illustrates the… Continue reading