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My appearance on the Nitty Gritty Show, October 1, 2017.
My recent appearance alongside Carol Anderson (Emory University) on the Tavis Smiley Show, September 19, 2017
A teaser for my upcoming podcast…thanks to Brother Ali for permission to use his track Gather Round as the intro and outro music for the show… Speak Out with Tim Wise Teaser
Sometimes America feels like the movie Groundhog Day: a place where we keep waking up again and again to the same shit, hoping against hope that this time — no really, this time — things will be different. So this time, the videotape of the police officer shooting the unarmed black man (or child, in […]
If, as the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, then hoping against hope that this time an officer who shot a black man in cold blood would be held to account, is a type of insanity most profound. Or at the very least evidence of […]
Tim Wise on CNN to discuss Bill Maher’s use of the N-word and racism in America
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they see the world and others in it. Those who view the world and its inhabitants as basically good, and who remain relatively hopeful about the better angels of our nature, though occasionally caught off guard by the less salutary aspects of the human […]
Which Dr. King do you honor today? The one who said that white Americans had betrayed their professed commitment to ethicality and equality — and that the country had bounced a check to black folks, which black folks were coming to cash — or the bland and sanitized apostle of color-blindness sold to you by […]
