May 25 No indictment, one apology and one settlement for three police misconduct cases this week By Joshua Barajas, Kennedy Huff There were developments for three prominent cases of police misconduct this week. Here’s a rundown of what happened, and what’s next for the families and officers involved. Continue reading
May 24 Watch 11:21 Sterling Brown arrest refuels debate on excessive force used against black Americans Milwaukee police released body-cam footage showing NBA player Sterling Brown being arrested in January. City officials admit his treatment by police was excessive, and his case is raising anger again about the treatment of African-Americans by law enforcement. Amna Nawaz… Continue watching
May 24 Watch 5:36 Pardoned boxer Jack Johnson just 'wanted to live well,' Ken Burns says President Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first African-American heavyweight champion. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 of violating the federal Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 8:02 Children who marched for equal rights inspire a new generation By Lisa Stark, Education Week Fifty-five years ago, thousands of African-American children walked out of their schools and began a peaceful march in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest segregation. They were met with attack dogs and water hoses. For a new generation of students, traveling to… Continue watching
May 15 Watch 3:43 Talking about race with your own mom can be hard. Here's why it's worth it When Ijeoma Oluo got a voicemail from her mom saying that she had had an epiphany about race, Oluo didn't want to call her back. But, she says, as awful and awkward as the conversation was, she is glad it… Continue watching
May 11 These 16 songs broke ground for 'This is America' By Joshua Barajas This week, the NewsHour asked several music experts for songs that can be seen as musical predecessors to Childish Gambino's "This Is America."… Continue reading
May 11 Starbucks changes bathroom policy following racial firestorm By Associated Press Starbucks has adopted an open-bathroom policy following the arrest last month of two African American men at a coffee shop in Philadelphia. Continue reading
May 10 Yale administrator says officers admonished white student for calling police on black student By Associated Press A Yale administrator says the university police officers who responded to a call about a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in the common area of a campus residence admonished the white student who reported it. Continue reading
May 09 Watch 8:24 The stark, chaotic power of Donald Glover's 'This Is America' Infectious in beat, jarring in violence and imagery, Donald Glover's new music video "This Is America" touches on painful racial history and our contemporary culture of mass entertainment and murder. Jeffrey Brown talks with Rolling Stone contributor Tre Johnson about… Continue watching
May 08 Watch 7:01 The next generation of African-American doctors finds success and support at this university By Hari Sreenivasan Xavier University, a small, historically black college in New Orleans, manages to graduate more African Americans who go on to become medical doctors than any other undergraduate institution in the country -- a fact that's even more striking given a… Continue watching