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  • Inequality
    ‘Against All Odds’ Is Required Viewing for White People
    January 4, 2021
    | Greg Kaufmann
    If 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.
  • Inequality
    The Other America
    November 17, 2020
    | Liz Theoharis
    The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
  • Environment
    Climate Change and the Black Vote
    October 6, 2020
    | Charles Ellison

    When 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.

  • Inequality
    Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
    June 18, 2020

    When 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.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Watch Bill Moyers Speak at Juneteenth Celebration: 'Tell the Truth, Tell the Story and Sing'
    June 17, 2020
    America’s Other Independence Day
  • Letters From an American
    One Man's Protestor is the President's Agent Provocateur
    June 9, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The 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.”

  • While We Were Social Distancing
    May 29, 2020

    For 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 ...

  • Inequality
    No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer”
    April 7, 2020
    Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
  • History
    ‘Most People Didn’t Want a Riot… But It Was Coming’
    July 14, 2017
    | Junius Williams
    Fifty years ago this week, in the summer of 1967, the streets of Newark exploded in violence. Here is a first-hand account of the tragic events that changed the city forever.
  • Inequality
    Why Is Donald Trump Interested in Meeting with the Presidents of HBCUs?
    April 28, 2017
    | Samuel G. Freedman
    It makes sense if you analyze it through the lens of the historical model of white governors, legislators and boards of regents in the Jim Crow South, who used the financial fragility of HBCUs as leverage to require political submission.


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