World Nov 01 UN report highlights persistent global discrimination against people of African descent, calls for reparations By Edith Lederer, Associated Press
Nation Jul 17 Watch 10:26 Trump’s racist tweets and the ‘politics of distraction’ President Trump’s attacks on women of color in the House have launched fierce debate about whether his meaning was racist. There is no doubt, though, that his words echo threats and insults that have been lobbed against perceived outsiders in…
Politics Feb 04 Watch 11:23 The racist role of blackface in American society Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam now says he is not pictured in a 1984 yearbook photo of people in blackface and Ku Klux Klan costumes, although he admits he wore blackface on a separate occasion. Regardless, he is facing calls to…
Arts Jul 23 Watch Professor’s Arrest Puts Racial Profiling in the Spotlight The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., made headlines again Thursday, after President Obama commented on the controversy during Wednesday's news conference. Ray Suarez talks to analysts about the larger issues at…