Jan 09 Watch 6:38 Tracee Ellis Ross: 'The curtain has been pulled' on Hollywood inequity and abuse By Charlayne Hunter-Gault Systemic change is happening in Hollywood, says Tracee Ellis Ross, star of the sitcom “black-ish.” Ellis Ross is a founder of Time’s Up, a legal defense fund that aims to support those who have been affected by sexual violence. The… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch 3:26 What happens when I try to talk race with white people By PBS News Hour You can choose not to see the sky, but it exists. That’s how Reni Eddo-Lodge responds when somebody tells her they don’t see race. Trying to raise the topic in white-dominated social circles often led her to an immediate shutdown,… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch 7:34 What sportsmanship can teach us about healing racial divides By PBS News Hour "Winning has no color," says former NBA player Alonzo Mourning. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sits down with Mourning, the former Miami Heat center who has spent the last eight years mentoring young players, to discuss what he’s observed about teamwork,… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch 7:14 Anti-bias lessons help preschoolers hold up a mirror to diversity By Cat Wise Some California preschools are getting children to participate in conversations about racial differences at an early age by introducing an anti-bias curriculum that teaches kids about diversity and inclusion. Against a backdrop of national divides over race, these educators use… Continue watching
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