Category: Videos

  • Is there a racial ‘care gap’ in medical treatment? PBS News Hour 2016-04-05 A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are sometimes undertreated for pain, with some students believing that black people feel less pain and have thicker skin than white people. For more on the…

  • CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they ‘allowed’ Obama to be president Raw Story 2016-07-10 David Edwards Former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye took issue on Sunday with white Americans who think they “allowed” Barack Obama to become president. During a panel discussion about race in America, CNN host Fareed…

  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2016-07-02 As Michael Eric Dyson notes in the introduction to his 2016 book, “[President] Obama provoked great hope and fear about what a black presidency might mean to our democracy. White and black folk, and brown and beige ones, too…

  • Africa Writes Returns to London London Live 2016-07-01 Reya El-Salahi, Presenter The UK’s biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual Africa Writes event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at The British Library. Sheila Ruiz from the Royal African Society says the event aims to make…

  • Poet Jackie Kay recites her first commission as Scots Makar at Opening Ceremony The Scottish Parliament 2016-07-02 The poet, Jackie Kay has recited her first commission as Scots Makar, “Threshold”, at today’s Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament.

  • One Drop of Love preceded by I’ve Just had a Dream The 18th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival Museum of Fine Arts Boston Barbara and Theodore Alfond Auditorium (Auditorium G36) Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 2016-06-30, 20:00-21:35 EDT (Local Time) Film still from One Drop of Love I’ve Just had…

  • Go Off!: Amandla Stenberg on Intersectionality and the Impact of White Supremacy Colorlines 2016-06-02 Kenrya Rankin, News Editor “I cannot separate my gender from my race from my sexual orientation. If in that moment I’m speaking out about gender, then I’m also in some way speaking out about race and about feminism.” In the latest…

  • Conversations: Victoria Bynum Mississippi Public Broadcasting Aired: 2016-06-16 Length: 00:26:46 Historian and author Victoria Bynum talks about her book, “The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest War.” First published in 2003, the book tells the story of Jones County residents who opposed secession from the Union during the civil war. The true story is receiving…

  • Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she…

  • Starting in the late 1940’s, and continuing through to the end of the ‘50’s, Hollywood seemed to be obsessed with the concept of “passing” –light skinned black people passing for white. Though it wasn’t new, of course, somehow it caught Tinseltown’s attention and a slew of films were made, almost all them dealing with women in particular, who…