Nov 23 Watch 6:55 Vaccinating minority communities remains a challenge amid rise in COVID cases By Stephanie Sy, Lena I. Jackson Since the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization of the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, more than two million children have been vaccinated. Public health officials are highlighting the importance of providing vaccines to low… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch 8:10 New documentary highlights plight of missing Black women and why their cases go ignored By Amna Nawaz, Talesha Reynolds A third of the almost 300,000 U.S. girls and women reported missing in 2020 were Black. That's according to the National Crime Information Center. Yet those cases are often marginalized or ignored by law enforcement and national media. Now, a… Continue watching
Nov 22 Rhode Island voters chose to drop ‘Plantation’ from state’s name. A year later it remains on display By Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press Rhode Island dropped "Providence Plantations" from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings. Providence Plantations is written in the script in marble near the State House dome and on bronze plaques in the entryway. Continue reading
Nov 22 Florida judge clears four Black men falsely accused of 1949 rape of white woman By Terry Spencer, Associated Press At the request of the local prosecutor, a judge on Monday dismissed the charges and convictions against the Groveland Four: Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Walter Irvin. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch 9:12 Why Malcolm X’s murder was revisited, and what exonerations say about U.S. justice system By John Yang, Murrey Jacobson A New York judge on Thursday exonerated two men of assassinating Malcolm X. The iconic civil rights figure was gunned down in Manhattan in 1965. Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were convicted, and imprisoned until the 1980's. A… Continue watching
Nov 05 Watch 6:28 Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ explores racial tensions in a divided Minneapolis By Jeffrey Brown, Sam Lane 2020 was a time of upheaval in Minneapolis — from the pandemic, to the police killing of George Floyd. A new novel, ‘The Sentence,’ by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Minneapolis resident Louise Erdrich, reflects on that tumultuous period. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Nov 05 WATCH: Trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery to open in Georgia By Russ Bynum, Associated Press Georgia's response to the killing has become part of a broader effort to address racial injustice in the criminal legal system after a string of fatal encounters between police and Black people such as George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna… Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch 6:09 Majority-white jury in Ahmaud Arbery case like a ‘relic of the old South,’ expert says By John Yang Opening statements begin Friday in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, in Southeast Georgia last year. Arbery's death triggered national protests after cellphone video of the incident showed him being chased down… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 5:35 D.C.’s door-to-door COVID vaccine program hopes to increase trust among the hesitant By Amna Nawaz, Gretchen Frazee, Laura Santhanam, Maea Lenei Buhre Even as vaccinations for younger children are expected to ramp up, COVID-19 vaccination rates for adults have slowed across much of the country. Nationally, about 70% of Americans 18 years and older are fully vaccinated. But many cities and states… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 6:36 David Driskell’s art spotlighted Black life. It’s ‘about time’ America saw his work By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet Artist David Driskell died last year of COVID-19 at age 88, but he's finally getting his due. For the first time, his paintings are the center of attention in a major way. Driskell was best known for his work as… Continue watching