In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn’t understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South…
‘Trouble Behind’: What Racism Looked Like in 1991 Kentucky
Trouble Behind (1991), a documentary by Robby Henson that examines the history and legacy of racism in Corbin, Kentucky, a small railroad community noteworthy both as the home of Colonel Sanders‘ Kentucky Fried Chicken and for “its race riots of 1919, during which over two hundred blacks…
8:46 – Dave Chappelle
Comedian Dave Chappelle filmed a Netflix special, which is also posted to YouTube, centered around his feelings about being a black man in America right now. It is fascinating to watch him make the connections he makes. To find out…
How an Alt-Right Leader Used a Lie to Climb the Ranks
This is Elliott Kline, also known as Eli Mosley. He wants you to believe the alt-right is made up of American patriots, often inspired by military service. But our months-long investigation found that his past is filled with unabashed racist…
SKIP DAY: Life in Florida After High School
Intimate glimpses of one very special day in the lives of high-school seniors from an industrial corner of the Florida Everglades: prom’s over, the future is uncertain, and the irresistible pull of the beach makes the long-time friends drive 60…
TRAFFIC STOP
“Traffic Stop” is a short animated documentary. Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in…