by lindaoppenheim | May 29, 2018 | Article, interview
On May 29, 2018, the day Starbucks closed thousands of stores to carry out racial sensitivity trainings, USA Today interviewed Robin DiAngelo, race educator who coined the term “white fragility,” about challenges to changing white people’s attitudes...
by lindaoppenheim | May 27, 2018 | Broadcast, interview, Podcast
On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University, “Are incidents of white people calling the police on people of color for various reasons, none involving...
by lindaoppenheim | May 15, 2018 | Opinion, Podcast
Describing some of the many recent instances of white people calling the police or security about people of color, Richard J. Reddick comments in Fortune: “[T]hese instances experienced by black people and people of color illuminate how routine life experiences...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 19, 2018 | Documents
A study from The Equality of Opportunity Project documents the on-going racial gap in upward mobility. “[R]acial differences in economic opportunity using data on 20 million children and their parents. . . . show black children have much lower rates of upward...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 5, 2018 | Opinion
In his essay, Sam McKenzie, Jr. discusses “reckless eyeballing,” which has both physical and psychological manifestations. “[T]he consequences are clear. These consequences are internal prisons and dead souls. The penalties are in how we see...