Tag: white supremacy

  • Nation & World

    How textbooks taught white supremacy

    We interview historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who is writing the book “Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American History.”

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons from James Baldwin on betrayal and hope

    Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.

    5 minutes
    James Baldwin.
  • Nation & World

    The endless struggle over racism

    Pervasive racism and hate requires a response that addresses it at various levels, from politics to public safety to schools, experts at a Harvard Chan School forum said.

    6 minutes
    Maureen Costello, Director of Teaching Tolerance and Member of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Senior Leadership Team; Dipayan Ghosh, Pozen Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; David Williams, Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Oren Segal, Director, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League; moderator Philip Martin, Senior Investigative Reporter, WGBH News