Apr 28 Watch 3:58 National Guard patrols Baltimore streets after night of violence By PBS News Hour Baltimore business owners and volunteers began to clean up the mess after a night of violent rioting and looting, sparked after the funeral for Freddie Gray on Monday. More than 200 people were arrested during the riots, and 20 police… Continue watching
Apr 27 Watch 4:44 Will Freddie Gray's death provoke changes in Baltimore? By PBS News Hour Hours after a funeral for Freddie Gray -- a young man who died in Baltimore police custody -- violence and looting broke out, resulting in injuries of about a half dozen officers. Judy Woodruff talks to special correspondent Jackie Judd… Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch How the biases in the back of your mind affect how you feel about race By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 24 The hidden racism of young white Americans By Sean McElwee Recently, chilling videos surfaced online of young University of Oklahoma students, members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, reciting a racially-charged chant. The story appeared surprising for numerous reasons. Among them, education is supposed to reduce racial resentment (or… Continue reading
Mar 23 We treat racism like it's going extinct. It's not. By Brittney Cooper When 28-year-old George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a residential Sanford, Florida, street in February 2012, after trailing the hoodie-clad, iced tea-carrying youth through the neighborhood because he looked "suspicious," it became clear that America's Millennial generation had… Continue reading
Mar 18 We need to talk about racism on college campuses By Eric Krupke, Jasmine Wright Following the release of a video showing the members of University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting racist slurs, the conversation of racism on college campuses has been refreshed. How have campus newspapers responded to the disturbing images?… Continue reading
Mar 17 Twitter chat: Is the next generation really more tolerant? By Nora Daly Are today’s young adults more tolerant than their parents and grandparents? In a 2010 report, the Pew Research Center found that Americans ages 18-29 are more racially and ethnically diverse, and more tolerant than previous generations. In spite of this,… Continue reading
Mar 16 Millennials 'confused, appalled' by racist fraternity video By Thaisi Da Silva The nine-second video featuring members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma singing a racist chant has sparked anger and confusion for many millennials across the country. Students held protests on campuses and took to social… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 7:31 University of Oklahoma president: Colleges have to be a loud voice against racism By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 11 Rap music not to blame for racist frat video, Twitter says By Eric Krupke During a discussion this morning on the recent video featuring members of a fraternity at Oklahoma University chanting racist slurs, the hosts of "Morning Joe" laid the blame on someone other than the fraternity brothers: the rapper Waka Flocka… Continue reading