Jan 07 Watch 24:27 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode January 7, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Jan 7, fallout from the Michael Wolff’s controversial book on the Trump presidency, and campuses address racial inequality. Also, the marijuana industry braces for new federal guidelines. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch 12:11 Evergreen copes with fallout, months after ‘Day of Absence’ sparked national debate By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green Students and staff at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, are teasing out how to define and express issues of racism and oppression on campus almost one year after an annual event there provoked a national conversation on free speech… Continue watching
Jan 07 ‘These conversations are not comfortable’ — How colleges can address racial inequality By Corinne Segal, Ivette Feliciano Months after Evergreen State College became the center of a national debate on race and education, one woman is working to build a more inclusive culture there. Continue reading
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 14 WATCH: Lawmaker asks Sessions why there’s an FBI report about black ‘extremists,’ but not one about those who are white By Associated Press Sessions said he believed there were certain minority groups with the potential for violence. He struggled to answer when asked the same about white groups. Continue reading
Oct 14 How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood By Gail Heyman, The Conversation Racial bias is associated with dehumanizing social groups different from your own. Psychologists trained kids to differentiate individuals of another race – with lasting effects on their biases. Continue reading
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
Aug 27 Tillerson says Trump ‘speaks for himself’ on racial violence By Associated Press Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated Sunday that President Donald Trump's values should be considered separate from America's values when it comes to race. Continue reading
Aug 25 RNC votes to condemn white supremacists By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press While the vote was unanimous, some members had grumbled the resolution was unnecessary and reflected unnecessary defensiveness. Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch 3:28 It’s time to really get uncomfortable and talk about racism, says this filmmaker By PBS News Hour As filmmaker Damon Davis tells it, being black in America comes with anxiety. To survive, he says, you’re constantly walking on eggshells because the way you talk and the clothes on your back can be used as a weapon against… Continue watching