Is Racial Profiling Police Policy in Bloomfield?
Lawyers and activists said they think alleged racial profiling by Bloomfield police, which the township and police officials deny, is an example of a practice that is probably widespread in similar New...
View ArticleStudy Links Discrimination With PTSD, Mental Health Issues
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Whether it's unfair treatment from the police, community members, or healthcare workers, about half of all U.S. adults report they have...
View ArticleNYC Proposal Frames School Segregation as a Human Rights Issue
In an effort to illuminate root causes of segregation in New York City public schools, a City Council bill seeks to create an office within the New York City Commission on Human Rights tasked...
View ArticleNew York City Targets Maternal Health in Brooklyn
In “What Hospitals Deliver,” WNYC has been looking at life-threatening complications during childbirth and racial disparities — and at why some hospitals do a much better job than others at reducing...
View ArticleWeek 12: The Future of Race in Trump's America
A new civil rights era seemed to be rising in the last few years before the 2016 election. Under Obama, Black Lives Matter became an international activist movement and the shooting of young black men...
View ArticleWhite Nationalism in Our Backyard
The right-wing rally that turned deadly this past weekend in Virginia called attention to the fact that there were white supremacists right here in our own backyard. WNYC reporter Matt Katz joins host...
View ArticleMisdemeanors in the Classroom: Betsy DeVos & the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Journalist Annie Waldman of ProPublica discusses her recent piece for Mother Jones, “Betsy DeVos Is Making It Easier for Schools to Send Black Kids—Like This 13-Year-Old Girl—to Jail,” in which she...
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