Race in America

NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre and Marcus Washington take part in a conversation with colleagues Damian Trujillo, Fátima Navarrete and Odel López Escote, all from different countries with varied experience, yet with a shared sense of identity.

NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre and Marcus Washington take part in a conversation with colleagues Damian Trujillo, Fátima Navarrete and Odel López Escote, all from different countries with varied experience, yet with a shared sense of identity.

Luis Valdez is one of the nation’s most influential Chicano playwrights & film directors. Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino, a theater for farmworkers, in 1965 and has committed to social change for decades, through arts. In this digital extra clip from “Race in America: The Conversation”, he shares how he got his break into...

“For every step towards progress, there’s always backlash.” Those words are from Doctor Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Her father’s message is still so relevant today. NBC Bay Area’s Marcus Washington spoke to her about that, along with voting rights an...

Watch the 15th episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on June 19, 2021.

Watch the 14th episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on May 25, 2021.

Marcus Washington has a conversation with Dr. Rashawn Ray, a sociologist and fellow at the Brookings Institute, about racial and social inequality in policing. Dr. Ray talks about police reform, police accountability, and what impact Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict has when it comes to justice in the Black community.

Over the past year, there have been many videos on TV and social media of police killings – images we are seeing over and over again. Jessica Aguirre talks to Melissa Barnes, a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Oregon. She tells us what impacts videos showing George Floyd’s murder and other like it are having on.....

Watch the 13th episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on May 13, 2021.

International R&B superstar and Valeljo’s H.E.R. is using her voice and music in the fight against social justice. Recently, she’s one a grammy and oscar. Cheryl Hurd talked to H.E.R. about growing up bi-racial, music and her name.

Watch the 12th episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on April 15, 2021.

Country music singer Miko Marks is now making the music she wants to make, releasing her first album in more than a year. NBC Bay Area’s Marcus Washington spoke to her in her Oakland home where she spoke about facing disappointment and racism within the industry.

An East Bay mayor wants his city to come to terms with its ugly past.