Segregation in Post-Civil Rights Era

Segregation in Post-Civil Rights Era

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Segregation in Post-Civil Rights Era, Nation-building and TV

Episode: Segregation in Post-Civil Rights Era, Nation-building and TV

  • Jun 26, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 49:55 mins

Guests: Jacob Rugh, Ph.D., Sociologist at Brigham Young University; Douglas Massey, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton  Race is Top of Mind today. President Barack Obama this afternoon delivered the eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina State Senator gunned down while leading a Bible study in his Charleston church last week. The killings appear to have been racially motivated. The President called on Americans to have the collective will to tackle the “uncomfortable truths about the prejudice that still infects our society.” “Every time something like this happens someone says we need to have a conversation about race,” said Obama. “We talk a lot about race. There’s no short cut. We don’t need more talk.”