Bob CollinsMainstream news media outlets aren’t very good at covering communities of color and issues of race and class and there’s a pretty obvious reason why not: they’re mostly white. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Race
The rush to stem the heroin problem as a health problem reflects the new whiteness of the crisis. Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton is promising to remake the face of Minnesota state government, saying it’s too white. Read more →
In Houston, student Coby Burren was taken aback by a caption in a chapter on immigration in his geography textbook recently. In a map of the United States it said the Atlantic slave trade brought “millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.” Read more →
If white men are really interested in supporting diversity in the public space, the very best thing they can do to achieve it, is sit down and be quiet. Read more →
The City Council in Red Wing has passed a resolution calling for a change in federal law that would include hurting a police officer as a hate crime, WCCO reports.
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For most people, Rachel Dolezal’s race doesn’t matter. But she heads Spokane’s NAACP. She’s also a part-time professor in Eastern Washington University’s Africana Studies Program. Read more →
After civil unrest in recent years, the spotlight has shown on the words that news reporters use to describe what’s happening.
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The University of Minnesota said Wednesday it will no longer provide general descriptions of those responsible for crime on campus.
In so doing, the U of M adopts a standard used by many news organizations which, at least by policy, don’t provide the race of suspects unless it actually provides some distinctive information. Read more →
Even the mayor of Minneapolis acknowledged on Tom Weber’s program on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday that there’s no equitable distribution of the good life that The Atlantic so portrayed in its article. Read more →
It’s not much of a secret that public radio is white — really white. The lack of diversity has hardly gone unnoticed locally or nationally. The origins go far deeper than race. Back when I was a young college student, my Boston accent was (mostly) beaten out of me in a voice and articulation class. Read more →
If you need a little reminder that the country has made some progress in matters of race, pay attention to who’s riding on the ‘inspiring stories’ float at the beginning of the Tournament of Roses parade tomorrow.
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This is the part of #pointergate that has been lost in the brouhaha over one incident and one indication of police attitudes toward residents of the city. Read more →
Add the Star Tribune editorial to the list of journalists who find no redeeming quality in Jay Kolls’ sloppy expose of Mayor Betsy Hodges door-knocking campaign in which she was alleged to have flashed gang signs. Read more →
From the Department of Are You Serious comes this from KSTP, which alleges that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges knows a gang sign.
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