December 26, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyLegal expert Robert A. Williams Jr. says stereotypes about American Indians have been codified into laws and government policies, with devastating consequences.
May 21, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyBill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
February 28, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyIan Haney López tells Bill that dog whistle politics is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.
January 31, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyJournalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.
December 20, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyLawyer and activist Michelle Alexander tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America.
November 22, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyScholar Henry Giroux says America's current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like "the walking dead."
July 12, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyAn acclaimed historian puts into perspective the 2013 Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in 1965.
March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyJournalists Martin Clancy and Tim O’Brien share the history, human stories and tragic inequities behind capital punishment in America.
March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyAttorney and legal scholar Bryan Stevenson joins Bill to expose the class prejudices of our criminal justice system.
March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyWhy is true justice -- not just the word we recite from the Pledge of Allegiance -- still unaffordable for those who need it most?
Slavery is our nation’s original sin; the treatment of people of color a blot on the history of a country “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Those who might have thought that the election of Barack Obama was somehow proof of a “post-racial America” are confronted with the near-daily reality of police killings, the denial of voting and other civil rights, and near crushing economic inequality. Here, commentary from Bill Moyers, articles and a variety of Moyers conversations offer a useful primer on the history of race in the United States and its continuing impact.
