THE COLOR INITIATIVE
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Mayor Kevin White and Violence Over Boston School Desegregation
WGBH BOSTON PUBLIC RADIO SPECIAL:
Learning About Desegregation In Charlestown at Charlestown High School
Boston traditionally has evoked images of a colonial past, Ivy League prestige and a glistening modern skyline. It also—seemingly inescapably—is linked to the racially fueled anti-busing violence of the 1970’s. The death of Kevin White in January, who presided for several terms over the city as mayor, has once again brought that period into stark relief. We wanted to know what students in Boston know about the former mayor and his role in the busing controversy. And to explore this question we chose Charlestown High School, which was at the center of resistance to
court ordered busing. My radio report:
Pulitzer–winning image "The Soiling of Old Glory" became the icon of racial tensions in Boston. (Stanley Forman/Boston Herald American)
Boston traditionally has evoked images of a colonial past, Ivy League prestige and a glistening modern skyline. It also—seemingly inescapably—is linked to the racially fueled anti-busing violence of the 1970’s. The death of Kevin White in January, who presided for several terms over the city as mayor, has once again brought that period into stark relief. We wanted to know what students in Boston know about the former mayor and his role in the busing controversy. And to explore this question we chose Charlestown High School, which was at the center of resistance to
court ordered busing. My radio report:
Pulitzer–winning image "The Soiling of Old Glory" became the icon of racial tensions in Boston. (Stanley Forman/Boston Herald American)Violence over Busing In The Kevin White Era
BOSTON — Mayor Kevin White presided over a tumultuous time of race relations. We look at his actions at three different crisis points and how they're seen today. My radio report:
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Somalia’s Plight Overlooked Among Global Troubles: PRI'sTHE WORLD
After prayer one day at the Islamic Cultural Center in the Roxbury section of Boston, Hirsi Hassan and other young Somalis sat down to discuss the crisis in the Horn of Africa. Though raised most of his 21 years in Boston, Hassan remembered life in a refugee camp and said the famine has affected all Somalis.
Hear the complete Audio report on the WORLD:I feel like the world has not reacted to what’s going on in Somalia. It’s affecting the whole region, the whole Somali ethnicity, you know. The world should be doing more. It should be like the main news.
Resources: Oxfam America, InterAction