Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud recently featured an interview with Nkenge Harmon Johnson, Urban League of Portland President. She talks about the recent release of the State of Black Oregon 2015 report, about her work traveling around the state as Communications Director for former Governor John Kitzhaber, and about Oregon universities’ issues of recruiting and then graduating African American students.
The NY Times Opinion Pages are hosting The Conversation, a series of short films about race in America. The second film, A Conversation about Growing Up Black, is now available. The filmmakers are Joe Brewster of American Promise and Perri Peltz.
You might also want to check out Here and Now’s coverage of recent events in Baltimore: Baltimore: A Turning Point In this Generation’s Civil Rights Movement by Soraya Shockley of Youth Radio and Devin Allen’s story in Baltimore Photographer Captures Zeitgeist.