Dec 28 Hieu Minh Nguyen challenges white supremacy in poems about his family By Corinne Segal Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with "White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual."… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch 8:08 What stagnant diversity means for America’s newsrooms By PBS News Hour As racial concerns continue to rise to the surface across America, is the media doing enough to tell the stories of people of color? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute about the industry’s struggle… Continue watching
Dec 14 What gun violence looks like, in one powerful poem By Corinne Segal Gun violence "can't be solved with political correctness," poet Aziza Barnes says. Continue reading
Dec 11 10 children’s books that feature diverse characters By Corinne Segal Diversity in children's and young adult literature is important, book publishers and librarians say. Continue reading
Nov 30 Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police By Corinne Segal What world a world without police look like? Poet Franny Choi’s work attempts to answer that question. Continue reading
Nov 16 Poet Danez Smith issues a wake-up call to white America By Corinne Segal “Dear White America” is a sprawling testimony to the effects of racial violence in the U.S. Continue reading
Nov 13 Watch 7:57 How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful By PBS News Hour National attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University… Continue watching
Nov 13 What is a microaggression? By News Desk Columbia University Professor Derald Wing Sue explains microaggressions, how they impact people and what can be done to address them. Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch 10:46 At Mizzou, Yale and beyond, campus protests stir fresh questions about free speech By PBS News Hour At the University of Missouri, protests and a president's resignation have put a spotlight on heated debate taking place on campuses across the country over hateful speech and racial insensitivities. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education… Continue watching
Nov 10 It’s true, Mizzou’s black faculty numbers are low – really low By Vanessa Dennis, Laura Santhanam How far is the University of Missouri from meeting the student protesters' demands of 10-percent black faculty? We looked at the black faculty data in all Southeastern Conference schools. Continue reading