Mar 28 What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education By Kenya Downs A Columbia University professor has had enough of what he calls a pervasive narrative in urban education: a savior complex that places mostly white teachers in minority classrooms as heroes who "saving" kids. Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch 8:52 The Cherokee Nation wants to reverse the ‘silent epidemic’ of hepatitis C By Stephen Fee, Mori Rothman The Cherokee Nation, one of the largest Native American tribes, has become the first community in the U.S. to set a goal of eliminating hepatitis C from its population. Tribe officials plan to screen 300,000 members, whose prevalence of infection… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch 7:36 As racial hate groups rise, strategies to shut them down By PBS News Hour What motivates hate groups and domestic terrorists? With the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist movements making a resurgence, special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center about solutions to stop the hate… Continue watching
Mar 23 How one Minnesota school district handles a rising immigrant population By Corey Mitchell, Education Week The United States is now home to the largest number of foreign-born black people in its history and many are K-12 students enrolled in public schools. This presents unique challenges for the school districts that welcome them. Continue reading
Mar 17 For some, Supreme Court nod is a ‘wasted opportunity’ for diversity By Kenya Downs President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court Wednesday left some scratching their heads. Considering his historic election as the first African-American president, some pundits expected that Mr. Obama's presumably last opportunity to affect the highest… Continue reading
Mar 14 How Puerto Rico’s economic crisis could shape Florida’s primary By Kenya Downs With thousands of Puerto Ricans leaving the island for Florida, potential new voters means the U.S. territory's issues can no longer be ignored. Continue reading
Mar 07 Data shows how major U.S. cities are slowly re-segregating By Kenya Downs New research from Sociological Science suggests that white flight has been replaced with white avoidance, contributing to gradual re-segregation of American cities. Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch 7:41 How a former model plans to diversify the fashion industry By PBS News Hour With Hollywood under fire for a lack of racial diversity among Oscar nominees, how are other parts of the entertainment industry working toward inclusiveness? In the latest edition of the Race Matters Solutions series, special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch 7:01 How one chief tried to reverse police wrongs of the civil rights era By PBS News Hour As a young officer in Montgomery, Alabama, Kevin Murphy wondered why no one had ever acknowledged past injustices committed by police against civil rights activists. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks with Murphy about his initiatives as police chief to promote… Continue watching
Feb 17 The 5 best takeaways from The Black Panthers documentary By Kenya Downs To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, PBS aired the documentary “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” produced by Independent Lens. Here are just a few takeaways. Continue reading