Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
01/15/2021
My family, like the country, split over race. Like the country, we can heal.
The ugliest hatreds can’t be tolerated, but they can be forgiven.
01/16/2021
Remembering King in this year to end systemic racism, defeat White supremacy, and achieve a racially just country
After King’s death in 1968 America lay at a crossroads. We find ourselves at a similar place now.
01/13/2021
What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like
Because traffic stops all too often escalate into deadly incidents, calls have grown to disentangle traffic enforcement from police—and a measure to do so has already passed in Berkeley, California.
01/11/2021
Calling In, Calling Out, and Where to Draw the Line
A conversation with Loretta Ross, an author, academic, and radical Black feminist who currently teaches courses on human rights and white supremacy at Smith College.
01/07/2021
What the Warnock-Ossoff win tells us about a transforming South
The victories of the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia put the United States in the midst of truly transformative times.
01/07/2021
Demonstrators, Juxtaposition Of Progress And Reactionary Events, Nothing New
A professor points to a history of “white riot,” aimed at overturning democracy perceived to be in the interest of Black people.
“Historically, law enforcement has been designed right after racial slavery to see Black people as a problem that had to be contained and managed. And they rarely see white – whether they’re protesters or insurgents or terrorists – in the same manner.”
01/01/2021
How 2020 could impact race relations in the new year
In 2020, people protested around the world against racial injustice. Peniel Joseph, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, joined CBSN to discuss the issue and policies affecting it.
12/17/2020
‘Happy tears’: Indian Country cheers Interior pick
Rep. Deb Haaland is a Senate confirmation away from being the first Native to lead the Interior Department.
12/16/2020
On Patriotic Empathy
12/16/2020
Defund the crime beat
Let’s be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It’s racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.
11/30/2020
Remember Martin Luther King Jr.?
It is time to revive the nonviolence movement.
11/18/2020