Mar 15 As protests increase, student demands get more ambitious By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed The number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance. Continue reading
Mar 15 When a patient threatens to shoot, how does a doctor respond? By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT A medical student recalls an experience with a racist patient, while two new studies outline how doctors react to difficult encounters. Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch 2:15 Analyzing social media for Super Tuesday insights By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan and the NewsHour data team analyze social media for insights on today’s Super Tuesday vote, including: the topics that matter most to Facebook users (racism, discrimination, Christianity and guns), the most-searched Republican candidate on the Internet (Donald Trump),… Continue watching
Feb 19 ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ remains among top banned classical novels By Kenya Downs Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird," considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, is also one of the most controversial. Continue reading
Jan 28 More white Americans acknowledge racism as a national problem By Errin Haines, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — More white Americans now share the view, long held by minorities, that racism is a national problem and should be confronted, according to an analysis of recent public opinion polling. 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 09 Watch 10:29 How Ferguson influenced the student uprising at Mizzou By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch 7:46 In ‘Honky,’ a play that plays with the language of racism By PBS News Hour With “Honky,” PBS and Onstage in America present a stage comedy about racism that throws political correctness out the window. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with the play’s author, Greg Kalleres, to discuss how he explores race relations and coded language… Continue watching
Sep 25 Column: Why I can’t be silent anymore when you call me the n-word By Payton Head Why is my existence such a threat to you? Why is being me not OK? After being called a [n-word] for the second time while walking across my campus, the place I call home, I had to ask myself these… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 2:18 Baratunde Thurston on fighting racist absurdity with laughs By PBS News Hour When you're the one black friend, says Baratunde Thurston, you're kind of like a double agent trying to prevent thermonuclear war. The former Onion digital director, “Daily Show” producer and author of “How to Be Black,” gives his Brief but… Continue watching