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  • Racism in America
    April 1, 2021

    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." Here, a variety of Moyers conversations with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.

  • Letters From an American
    Calling COVID “China Flu” Can Indeed Make It Deadly
    March 19, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Trump's shifting relationship with China.
  • Democracy & Government
    Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    January 21, 2021
    | StudentNation

    From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be.

  • Democracy & Government
    Joy, Relief, and Healing as Biden Ends Trump’s Racist Muslim Ban in Day One Executive Order
    January 21, 2021
    | Brett Wilkins

    The lifting of the so-called Muslim ban was one of numerous executive actions taken by Biden shortly after his inauguration and fufills a campaign promise he made to end the prohibition on "day one" of his administration.

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Democracy & Government
    America Is a Lot Sicker Than We Wanted to Believe
    November 9, 2020
    | Robert Edwards

    This isn’t who we are? What if it is? Let us not underestimate for even a moment the impact of Joe Biden’s victory. This, we were told, has been the most important American election since 1864, and that was no hyperbole. So why did this still feel like a loss for so many, at least initially.

  • 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.

  • Letters From an American
    The Problem with Portland
    August 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump is clearly trying to change the national narrative from his disastrous response to the coronavirus and the economic crash to the idea that he alone can protect white Americans from their dangerous Black neighbors.



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