Roy and Daily Show producer CJ Hunt discuss their 2018 field piece exploring Boston’s reputation as one of America’s most racist cities, and ask Boston’s NAACP President Tanisha Sullivan whether the city has made any progress in the wake of the 2020 racial reckoning.
Includes talk about George Moses Horton, the famous slave poet of Chatham County who sold his poems to buy his freedom, and who according to historians lived in Philadelphia after freedom.
Earlier last week I shared a post on social media in an attempt to start a dialogue around criticism and understanding. I immediately removed the quote and the offensive images. It was and is not my intention to offend anyone or cause any hurt.
Communities of color will require more funding and assistance to address the socio-economic and health disparities exposed by coronavirus, local, state and federal leaders said in a NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference virtual town hall this week.
For every kid who wasn’t counted in the 2010 Census, Pennsylvania lost $1,746 a head in federal funding for Medicaid, CHIP, foster care and adoption services, and childcare
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The men who wore blackface during the Mummers Parade on New Year’s Day have been expelled and banned from future mummers events. The two men were associated with the Froggy Carr Mummers Club. The mummers banned the use of blackface in 1963.
