White Supremacy and Implicit Bias in Schools

Every month, Carrie Kaufman sits down with Akiko Cooks, the proprietor of the Facebook group No Racism in Schools 1865, to talk about social issues within education - including implicit bias and racism.

In March 2019, Cooks was alerted by a relative to a social media account that targeted nine black boys at Arbor View High School, threatening a "Columbine 2" the next day. One of the boys was Cooks' son. She now speaks regularly on racism and white supremacy in schools, and how we can educate each other.

Pete Simi embedded himself into white supremacist groups in order to study and write about them. Carrie and Akiko talk to him about the continuum between white nationalism and everyday implicit bias.

And we launch a new segment today: Hidden History of the United States, in which we highlight African-American inventors and change makers.