January 4, 2021If we're going to throw terms like "structural racism" around, we should understand what they mean and the work white people have to do. This film lays it out.
November 18, 2020The summer of unrest sharpens the nation’s attention to issues of racial justice. Continue reading
August 14, 2020Donald Trump rode to power on the wings of a dark lie — one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history. Bill Moyers and four historians on Donald Trump and white supremacy.
October 26, 2017The Princeton scholar and activist talks about the rapid ascension of the extreme right in recent months and what she wants you to do about it.
October 16, 2017A conversation about white supremacy, the criminal justice system and the transformation that's needed.
October 13, 2017Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his new book "Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law."
October 11, 2017The 2016 National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From the Beginning talks with Dr. Christina Greer about the unrelenting racism of America's past and present.
August 15, 2017At age 29, his blacklisting may well amount to a life sentence, for no crime other than having a social conscience.
July 19, 2016Let’s acknowledge the self-deception at the heart of our racial theater.
April 28, 2016Bill speaks with the scholar and Princeton professor about the tremendous racial inequalities that remain as the final term of America's first black president draws to a close.
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.
