Oct 27 Watch 7:18 Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ is a ghost story about the real struggles of living By PBS News Hour Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the supernatural with genuine characters that are molded by the rural and… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch 6:58 Ta-Nehisi Coates on the unfair expectation that one black president could undo inequality By PBS News Hour In “We Were Eight Years in Power,” Ta-Nehisi Coates calls President Trump the “first white president” for the ways Trump has made the racial identity of former President Obama so central to his politics. Coates joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 3:33 Why I broke the rule of survival for black Americans By PBS News Hour Riley Temple was walking his dog around his Washington, D.C., neighborhood where he has lived for the past 25 years when a confrontation with the police made him break the rule that all black people are told to obey in… Continue watching
Sep 25 Watch 4:40 NFL players team up in defiance and solidarity By PBS News Hour Football stadiums across the country became fields of protests as more than 200 NFL players sat, kneeled or locked arms during the National Anthem in response to President Trump’s remarks and tweets about professional athletes. Jeffrey Brown reports on the… Continue watching
Sep 25 Trump doubles down on criticism of NFL players, says it ‘has nothing to do with race’ By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press With his attacks on activist athletes, Trump again plunged into the middle of his favorite kind of drama — personal, aggressive, culturally volatile and entirely of his own making. Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch 6:41 How athletes have tried to use activism to level the playing field By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 18 White House, black college heads to meet amid strained ties By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Monday named a lawyer and former NFL player as executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as the administration faces criticism from those institutions of promises unkept. Continue reading
Aug 16 WATCH LIVE: Race and Racism in the Age of Trump | 2017 Hutchins Forum By News Desk Join PBS NewsHour's Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Henry Louis Gates Jr. as they host and moderate the 2017 Hutchins Forum on "Race and Racism in the Age of Trump."… Continue reading
Aug 03 Most white millennials now disapprove of Trump, survey says By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press Disapproval of President Donald Trump is rising among white millennials, but it's below that of their black, Latino and Asian-American peers, according to a survey released Thursday. Continue reading
Aug 01 Watch 7:29 A feast of African-American culinary contributions, baked into the South’s DNA By PBS News Hour In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With "The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South," Twitty addresses… Continue watching