GLOBAL RECKONING:
TWO TAKES ON UNREST AND THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD
THEY CAN'T BREATHE:
IMAGES FROM THE PROTESTS
editor: Melanie Eversley
REPLAY OF BTR GREAT MIGRATION TALK
COUNTRY'S NATIONAL RECKONING, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OKLAHOMA VISIT STIR PUBLIC CURIOSITY ABOUT 1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE
AUTHOR CONNIE PORTER AND DR. HENRY LOUIS TAYLOR, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR URBAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, JOINED BTR FOR AN ENLIGHTENING SUNDAY CHAT ON BLACK LIFE UP NORTH AND THE GREAT MIGRATION. USE PASSWORD 0x%3+7b. (INCLUDE THE PERIOD) TO ACCESS WITH THE LINK.
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Melanie Eversley is an award-winning journalist who has reported for USA Today, and the Washington bureaus of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution and the Detroit Free Press. You also can find her work in The Undefeated, Fortune, BET.com, The Grio, The Root, The Crime Report, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, the New York Daily News, Essence and the Dallas Morning News. She is a 2020 John Jay Criminal Justice Reporting Fellow. She has been a guest panelist on National Public Radio, CBS This Morning and CBS Morning News. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School and has a B.A. from Oberlin College.
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