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Race relations expert explains why it’s important to understand the history of American racism
Nearly three years after George Floyd’s death sparked a nationwide movement for social change, America has yet to come to a true racial reckoning. Just last month another unarmed Black man, Tyre Nichols, was fatally beaten by police officers. Director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research Ibram Kendi recently released a book entitled How To Be A (Young) Antiracist). He joined American Voices to discuss what it will take to for the U.S. to have a true racial reckoning that prompts systemic change.