This week PBS premiers a moving four-hour series The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song , tracing the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America from its bedrock role in the resilience and survival of Black Americans
February 5, 2021Race has been at the core of the American past and its present.
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 17, 2020The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
October 6, 2020When climate catastrophes strike in the United States, it is the nation’s Black people that are hit the hardest – while lacking the resources and social mobility to confront them.
June 18, 2020When Donald Trump planned a campaign rally for June 19th in Tulsa, Oklahoma it was a double insult to African Americans. There are many events in American history that most white adults have would not be able to identify, much less appreciate their significance. Red Summer of 1919, the Rosewood Massacre, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Tulsa is one among too many.
June 17, 2020America’s Other Independence Day
June 9, 2020The day started with Trump tweeting that the 75-year-old Buffalo, New York, man shoved to the ground by police and left bleeding and unconscious “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” who might have been part of a “set up.”
May 29, 2020For most of Donald Trump’s presidency, it seems that the news has come at us like a firehose, spraying information, disinformation and quotable tweets. And that was before the pandemic. Now with more than 100,000 dead, presidential spectacles and unemployment at Depression-era highs, there’s even more news flying under the radar. The team at BillMoyers.com brings you the news you need to know — some of it good, some of it outrageous, all of it ...
April 7, 2020Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
