by lindaoppenheim | Mar 4, 2019 | Podcast
Listen to this segment of the NPR series Parenting: Difficult Conversations created by KQED and Sesame Street by clicking here. Hosts Cory Turner and Anya Kamenetz interview parents and expert Beverly Daniel Tatum about how to talk to children about race and racism....
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 9, 2019 | Podcast
NPR’s Noel King talked to a 13-year-old African-American hockey player and his father about a recent ice hockey tournament and how his teammates rallied around him, after they saw that he was being subjected to racist abuse from the opposing team. Listen to the...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 25, 2018 | Podcast, Video
Focusing on the documentary “America to Me,” about race relations at the high school in the affluent town of Oak Park, Illinois, on his program 1a, Joshua Johnson hosts: Charles Donalson Former student, Oak Park-River Forest High School in Oak Park,...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2018 | Podcast
NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates relates the story of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 1968 Olympics 200-meter running event, then bowed their heads and raised their black-gloved fists on the podium...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 10, 2018 | Podcast
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, about the fact that black mothers have a higher mortality rate than white mothers and the effect of racism. To hear the interview, click...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 1, 2018 | Article, Podcast
Anne Branigin reports that the three African American Senators “Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this...