Juneteenth

Should public schools in America teach kids about race and racism?

The fatality rate of childbirth has increased in America. How has this happened?

How to Be Helpful in the Fight for Racial Equality

What it really takes to combat racism

The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case Against the US Government

How Blackness is Portrayed on the Opera Stage

Race and racism are crucial topics in our national dialogue. But what is race? And what is the difference between race and racism?

Ryan Gabriel, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, and Sister Sharon Eubank, speak on the power of Christ and his kindness to overpower prejudice.

Teaching the History of Slavery in America

Acclaimed Book About Race in America “Remixed” for Young People

Increasing the Number of Black Doctors Could Save The Lives of Black Babies

Far-reaching Impacts of Biased School Discipline

The Leaderless and Leader-full Black Lives Matter Movement

Guest: LaShawn Williams, LCSW, MPA, Professor of Social Work, Utah Valley University Last week there was an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission report which blamed systemic discrimination and white supremacist views for fomenting frustration that led young blacks around the country to riot in urban centers. Fifty years later, one in five Americans believes racism is not a problem in the United States – that’s according to a Pew Research survey released in the last two weeks.

Editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shares her book, "Black Ink," about literacy and the Black experience. Retired football coach William Mitchell, BYU historian Cameron McCoy and BYU sociologist Mikaela Dufur discuss race and sports.

Guest: Elizabeth Drame, PhD, Professor & Department Chair of Exceptional Education, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Unlike some other diseases, autism appears to affect children of all races at the same rate. But when that diagnosis is made can differ pretty dramatically. It often comes several years later in African American children than in White children. As a result, African American children may require longer and more intensive intervention. Across the world in Africa, there are cultural barriers to treating autism.

Guest: Nathan Connolly, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Author, “A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida,” Co-host, BackStory podcast

Guest: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder There’s a lot of debate right now about whether or not a pro-football game is the place for political protest, and whether kneeling during the national anthem is an appropriate way to do it. If the protest is about racial inequality, an NFL game is, in some ways the perfect place, for it.

Guest: Daina Ramey Berry, PhD, Associate Professor of History and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas-Austin, Author of “The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation”