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How did America survive 2020?
#TheBigPicture: A Race for America tells the story of a year in the life of the most powerful nation on earth and the role philanthropic foundations have within it.
▶️ Watch it in full here: aje.io/nxf7g
How did America survive 2020?
#TheBigPicture: A Race for America tells the story of a year in the life of the most powerful nation on earth and the role philanthropic foundations have within it.
▶️ Watch it in full here: aje.io/nxf7g
The film looks at
- Philanthropy & desegregation
- White fear, Black power & liberal foundations
- The racial history of US healthcare
- Trump & the rise of the new right
With @meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1
- Philanthropy & desegregation
- White fear, Black power & liberal foundations
- The racial history of US healthcare
- Trump & the rise of the new right
With @meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1
@meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1 The desegregation of schools in the American South was hailed as a victory for race relations in America, but what was it like for the children going through it?
As Donna Nicol explains, for Black children put on frontlines of integration, the experience was life-threatening.
As Donna Nicol explains, for Black children put on frontlines of integration, the experience was life-threatening.
@meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1 How do white supremacist groups combat desegregation?
Foundations in the South began private schools that were ‘whites-only’ in all but name.
“It fuses the idea of whiteness with this idea of private, where white is good and private also is good” - @RandolphHohle
Foundations in the South began private schools that were ‘whites-only’ in all but name.
“It fuses the idea of whiteness with this idea of private, where white is good and private also is good” - @RandolphHohle
@meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1 The Flexner Report - commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation - was instrumental in development of the modern American medical profession.
As @DamonTweedyMD & @RandolphHohle explain, when it came to race the report had serious drawbacks.
As @DamonTweedyMD & @RandolphHohle explain, when it came to race the report had serious drawbacks.
@meganfrancis @nrookie @imaniperry @RandolphHohle @deejaenic @DamonTweedyMD @anelsona @MaribelMorey1 “Trump sowed all of this chaos and discord and disaster but there is an entire infrastructure of foundations, of think tanks that have been working on this agenda for decades.”
@imaniperry explains the impact foundations have had on today’s politics in the US.
@imaniperry explains the impact foundations have had on today’s politics in the US.
▶️ Watch #TheBigPicture: A Race for America 👇 aje.io/nxf7g
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