SELECTED MEDIA

In the last decade, the UN has issued early warnings to five countries, asking them to tackle racial tensions: Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. Now, incredibly, the United States has joined this club. A UN committee has cited the overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a civil rights activist

Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for more recent black insurgency in America. Listen to the episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07x12m5

Dorian Warren talks with the New Republic’s Jamil Smith, Demos’ Matt Bruenig and political scientist Joe Lowndes about Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter and the 2016 race. Watch here: https://www.msnbc.com/nerding-out/watch/are-race-and-class-struggles-separate–490144323950

Dorian Warren talks with professors Allyson Hobbs, Christina Greer and Joseph Lowndes about what the social construction of race does and does not mean in the case of Rachel Dolezal. Watch here: https://www.msnbc.com/nerding-out/watch/rachel-dolezal-and-race-as-a-social-construct-466170947925

Dorian Warren talks with his panel about whether or not Rachel Dolezal’s behavior qualifies either as appropriation or as blackface. Watch here: https://www.msnbc.com/nerding-out/watch/rachel-dolezal-and-cultural-appropriation-466187843603

Dorian Warren talks with writer and advocate Parker Molloy about why the transgender experience should not be compared to the story of Rachel Dolezal. Watch here: https://www.msnbc.com/nerding-out/watch/why-rachel-dolezal-is-not-like-transgender-people-466235459868