The disparities in wealth, incarceration rates and residential segregation levels were the same on the day before and on the day after the election of our nations first African American president, Gail Christopher, who heads a W.K. Kellogg Foundation project aimed at improving race relations, sai
Date: Jan 19, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Obama gets personal in effort to help young men of color
On Thursdays NewsHour, Gwen Ifill looked at the broader questions raised by the initiative with Gail Christopher, the vice president of programs for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, one of the groups involved with the effort, and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude.
Gail Christopher, who heads W.K. Kellogg Foundation's America Healing project, said the country's progress means dealing with the fact that for much of its history, the United States was built on the principle of racial hierarchy. She said the country has not fully understood the central role of rac
"Our history has created this unconscious bias," said Gail Christopher, vice president of program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has funded research on the subject. "Now we need to create safe places to discuss and educate people about unconscious bias, where we are not blaming and