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11:57

Kedra Newsom Reeves

How to reduce the wealth gap between Black and white Americans

Posted Oct 2020

9:18

David Lammy

Climate justice can't happen without racial justice

Posted Oct 2020

19:21

Dexter Dias

Racism thrives on silence — speak up!

Posted Oct 2020

18:21

John Biewen

The lie that invented racism

Posted Sep 2020

6:10

Camilo Ramirez

The problem with the U.S. bail system

Posted Sep 2020

13:18

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Why we must confront the painful parts of US history

Posted Sep 2020

15:07

Wanda Irving

How the US medical community fails Black mothers

Posted Aug 2020

6:36

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet

Posted Jul 2020

10:15

Dwinita Mosby Tyler

Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally

Posted Jul 2020

36:20

William "Sandy" Darity

A blueprint for reparations in the US

Posted Jul 2020

15:19

D-L Stewart

Scenes from a Black trans life

Posted Jul 2020

13:35

Titus Kaphar

Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Posted Jul 2020

14:17

Jennifer L. Eberhardt

How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it

Posted Jun 2020

51:14

Ibram X. Kendi

The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

Posted Jun 2020

6:35

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

The bill has come due for the US's history of racism

Posted Jun 2020

8:29

Rashad Robinson

How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice

Posted Jun 2020

7:27

Dr. Bernice King

The US needs a radical revolution of values

Posted Jun 2020

8:46

Anthony D. Romero

The ACLU's call to defund the police

Posted Jun 2020

18:27

Peggy McIntosh

How to recognize your white privilege — and use it to fight inequality

Posted Jun 2020

1h 6m

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero

The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Posted Jun 2020

19:38

Megan Ming Francis

We need to address the real roots of racial violence

Posted Jun 2020

12:56

Sara Jones

My story of love and loss as a transracial adoptee

Posted May 2020

4:17

Daina Ramey Berry

The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth

Posted Apr 2020

14:21

Heather C. McGhee

Racism has a cost for everyone

Posted Apr 2020

4:39

Riché D. Richardson

The hidden life of Rosa Parks

Posted Apr 2020

19:21

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

Posted Mar 2020

13:27

Curtis Austin

The real story of the Black Panther Party

Posted Feb 2020

15:07

Clarice Phelps

How I claimed a seat at the periodic table

Posted Feb 2020

18:13

David Ikard

The real story of Rosa Parks — and why we need to confront myths about Black history

Posted Feb 2020

5:34

Angelica Dass

Usando la fotografía para celebrar los diferentes tonos y colores de la humanidad

Posted Feb 2020

10:40

Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin

A historical musical that examines Black identity in the 1901 World's Fair

Posted Nov 2019

4:48

Marlene Daut

The first and last king of Haiti

Posted Oct 2019

5:27

Densho

Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps

Posted Oct 2019

1:00

Clint Smith

"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"

Posted Sep 2019

12:13

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing

Posted Sep 2019

7:14

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

"You Have the Rite"

Posted Aug 2019