Archive: racial injustice //BTRtoday

2016

Dec 29, 2016

Joe Virgillito

Mariame Kaba talks about Project NIA and Survived and Punished, as well as the issues of racial and gender injustice becoming a larger part of the national conversation.

Reporting on Racial Injustice Reporting on Racial Injustice

Dec 2, 2016

Joe Virgillito

BTRtoday speaks with journalist Wesley Lowery about his new book “They Can't Kill Us All” about racial and social injustice around the country.

2016

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