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20:18

Christian Picciolini

My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement — and how I got out

Posted Apr 2018

17:55

Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision

Posted Mar 2018

11:16

Shawn Martinbrough

How I change perceptions by drawing comics

Posted Mar 2018

17:34

Howard C. Stevenson

How to resolve racially stressful situations

Posted Feb 2018

0:00

Villy Wang

A business against racism

Posted Feb 2018

7:49

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Black life at the intersection of birth and death

Posted Feb 2018

10:34

Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

A mother and son united by love and art

Posted Dec 2017

10:54

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Posted Dec 2017

22:40

Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell

An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine

Posted Nov 2017

6:35

Nikki Webber Allen

Don't suffer from your depression in silence

Posted Oct 2017

18:20

Theo E.J. Wilson

A black man goes undercover in the alt-right

Posted Sep 2017

13:15

Sethembile Msezane

Living sculptures that stand for history's truths

Posted Sep 2017

19:16

Chetan Bhatt

Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are

Posted Sep 2017

5:25

Damon Davis

Courage is contagious

Posted Aug 2017

12:52

Titus Kaphar

Can art amend history?

Posted Aug 2017

14:00

Cheyenne Cochrane

A celebration of natural hair

Posted Jun 2017

15:33

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...

Posted May 2017

18:28

Serena Williams and Gayle King

On tennis, love and motherhood

Posted Apr 2017

17:27

David R. Williams

How racism makes us sick

Posted Apr 2017

8:44

Joy Buolamwini

How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

Posted Mar 2017

12:29

Brittney Cooper

The racial politics of time

Posted Feb 2017

12:25

Miriam Zoila Pérez

How racism harms pregnant women — and what can help

Posted Feb 2017

10:20

Dena Simmons

How students of color confront impostor syndrome

Posted Dec 2016

16:05

Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi

An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter

Posted Nov 2016

18:49

Kimberlé Crenshaw

The urgency of intersectionality

Posted Nov 2016

13:50

Kandice Sumner

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty

Posted Nov 2016

4:36

Camille A. Brown

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Posted Sep 2016

13:08

Joseph Ravenell

How barbershops can keep men healthy

Posted May 2016

4:19

Sanford Biggers

An artist's unflinching look at racial violence

Posted May 2016

11:27

Angélica Dass

The beauty of human skin in every color

Posted Mar 2016

15:57

Adam Foss

A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system

Posted Mar 2016

13:49

Mary Bassett

Why your doctor should care about social justice

Posted Feb 2016

4:53

Angela Koine Flynn

The science of skin color

Posted Feb 2016

14:36

Dorothy Roberts

The problem with race-based medicine

Posted Feb 2016

13:42

Jedidah Isler

The untapped genius that could change science for the better

Posted Dec 2015

13:01

Rich Benjamin

My road trip through the whitest towns in America

Posted Aug 2015