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A "Racial Realist" Joins TYT For An Interesting Interview

2008-09-02T01:01:39Z

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Most Blacks Say Racism Widespread In U.S.

2008-09-18T10:43:29Z

In the United States, 78% of blacks say that racism against blacks is widespread, while 51% of whites say the same.

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Races Differ On How Society Treats Minorities

2008-09-05T09:06:18Z

About two-thirds of white Americans (63%) say they are very or somewhat satisfied with the way society treats blacks, while more than one-third of black Americans (35%) say the same.

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Barack & Michelle Poll Low WIth Whites

2008-07-25T22:44:31Z

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White Teachers/ Diverse Classrooms preview clip from DVD

2008-10-12T14:19:53Z

This is a preview from the soon-to-be released DVD "White Teachers/ Diverse Classrooms" by Stylus Publishing.

In this clip, a white teacher talks about race in the classroom.

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A Duty to Heal

2008-06-09T15:35:49Z

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Dr. Pius Kamau reads his essay "A Duty to Heal." This excerpt is taken from a program on the book "This I Believe," featuring Dan Gediman.

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Dan Gediman, the executive producer of NPR's This I Believe, joins local contributing essayists to read from This I Believe.

Featuring many renowned contributors - including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley, Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike - this collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk; and a man who serves on Rhode Island's parole board. The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs - and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them - reveal the American spirit at its best - Tattered Cover

Before coming to the U.S. in 1971, Dr. Pius Kamau studied medicine in Spain, England and his native Kenya. A thoracic and general surgeon, Kamau also writes a column for the Denver Post. He is currently organizing a medical group to work in Sudan.

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Shelby Steele - "Racial Masking" in American Popular Culture

2008-06-14T09:33:54Z

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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele explains "racial masking," a phenomenon he identifies as a common experience for minorities in American culture.

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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

Shelby Steele examines the challenges that Barack Obama must overcome in his bid to become President of the United States in A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Having to cater to both black voters and white voters in what binds Obama, and his dilemma is that he achieved visibility more as a racial icon than as an individual. In his analysis, Shelby Steele discusses his own mixed race background, and he empathizes with Obama's inner conflicts even as he critiques him. He also identifies the two 'masks' that blacks wear in order to seek success and power in the American mainstream: bargaining and challenging, and he argues that Obama is too constrained by divisive racial politics to find his own true political voice - and proposes a way for him to break those bonds and find his own voice.

Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Content of Our Character and White Guilt, and a contributing editor at Harper's; his work has also appeared in numerous other magazines and newspapers - Cody's Books

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations

In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Steele is the author of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era and most recently A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.

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Shelby Steele - Race and the Obama Campaign

2008-06-14T09:33:51Z

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele discusses racial issues he sees behind the success of Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations

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Bryan Stevenson - Racism and the Death Penalty

2008-06-07T09:36:13Z

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Bryan Stevenson, NYU Professor of Clinical Law and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the seemingly inherent racial bias to the administration of capital punishment in the United States.

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Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, professor of clinical law at New York University and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, speaks on political rights under the U.S. Constitution. This is the final lecture of the four-part series.

This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, Visiting Professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country's leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America's outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. -- The New School

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of EJI and Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, has won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. Since graduating from Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, he has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.

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