Feb 15 Watch 10:50 Baltimore hospitals work to repair frayed trust in black communities By PBS News Hour In a city renowned for medical schools and research, there's a striking contrast in the dismal health and life expectancy in some Baltimore neighborhoods. There's a deep distrust of the medical system among many African-American residents, dating back to the… Continue watching
Feb 11 Clinton aims to reset campaign with focus on black voters By Ken Thomas and Lisa Lerer, Associated Press After an overwhelming loss in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is staking a campaign comeback on her ability to woo black and Latino voters. Continue reading
Feb 09 African-Americans over-represented among low-paying college majors By Kenya Downs More African-Americans are earning college degrees than ever before. But a new study shows they're over-represented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs. Continue reading
Feb 08 How poet Ariana Brown became the Afro-Latina role model she needed By Corinne Segal Growing up in San Antonio, Ariana Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself -- an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family -- both in her community and literature. Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch 5:42 New York Times unveils lost snapshots of black history By PBS News Hour The New York Times has begun to unpack never-before-seen photographs that help fill in a portrait of African-American history. Why did these images of historic moments and well-known figures go unpublished for so long? Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Rachel… Continue watching
Feb 01 How police harassment and hip-hop turned a Chicago teen into a poet By Corinne Segal Years after a troubling interaction with police, Nate Marshall would confront the experience in poetry. Continue reading
Jan 29 How a sharecropper’s son with a third-grade education changed the definition of the word ‘artist’ By Corinne Segal Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist whose works with everyday materials spoke to the difficulty of black life in the South, challenged stereotypes in the art world. Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch Obama calls out politicians for race and religion-targeted rhetoric By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 11 Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts returns to the city that nearly broke him By Frank Carlson Betts' new book touches on the way he believes institutions -- schools, the police, the judicial system -- helped create a lost generation of young black men. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch 7:50 How do we solve stubborn segregation in schools? By PBS News Hour Despite a historic Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregated schools, today huge numbers of students remain in separate and unequal schools, most in inner cities. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks with Pedro Noguera of the University of California, Los Angeles, about… Continue watching