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  • Inequality
    The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People
    February 26, 2021
    | Bruce Bartlett

    The Biden administration is reviving the legal and moral case for slavery reparations.

  • Inequality
    America's Dirty Divide: How Environmental Racism Leaves the Vulnerable Behind
    February 12, 2021
    | Frida Garza

    The health effects caused by decades of systemic racism are staggering.

  • It Is More than a Month
    February 5, 2021
    Race has been at the core of the American past and its present.
  • 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.
  • Health & Science
    New CDC Data Confirms the Pandemic’s Outsize Impact on People of Color
    December 7, 2020
    | Julia Lurie

    Black, Native, and Latinx people are between three and four times more likely to be hospitalized with the coronavirus than white people.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    PODCAST: Heather McGhee: How American Racism has a Cost for Everyone
    November 18, 2020
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM

    At 22, working for the non-profit organization Demos in New York, Heather McGhee plunged into the fight for debt reform, then tackled Wall Street corruption and consumer protection, and wound up president of Demos, leading its campaign against political and economic inequality. Heather McGhee decided to change the world, or at least try. Her new book is THE SUM OF US.

  • Democracy & Government
    Across the Country, Voters Remove Racist Symbols and Language from Founding Documents
    November 18, 2020
    | April Simpson

    The summer of unrest sharpens the nation’s attention to issues of racial justice.

  • 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.

  • For the Record
    Lest We Forget: The Birther Lie
    August 14, 2020
    Donald 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.
  • Justice
    Awakening and Sacrifice: A Conversation with Pete Nicks
    August 13, 2020
    | Robert Edwards

    In January 2018, I spoke with the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks about The Force, his feature documentary about Oakland’s deeply troubled police department and its history of violence. This is a new interview with Pete, discussing those issues in the post-George Floyd world.



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