Racial Justice

In the new documentary Stitch, Breathe, Speak, a group of parishioners from several predominantly white New Hampshire churches create quilts featuring the last words spoken by George Floyd before he was murdered by a Minnesota police officer in 2020. The film touches on what the quilt panels and Floyd’s words brought to the ones making them.

Myra Flynn, host of Vermont Public's newest podcast, Homegoings, joins host Mikaela Lefrak after we listen to the first episode.

Kim Carson is Burlington's new director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging. Carson worked in the Iowa Judicial system prior to beginning this role in Vermont's largest city.

The statement lists a community's core values in hopes that all people will feel welcome there. The Vermonters behind the movement are aiming for every municipality to adopt the declaration.

Host Mikaela Lefrak discusses Prop 2, a ballot measure that would amend the Vermont constitution to clarify that all forms of slavery and indentured servitude are prohibited in the state.

A bronze statue of Elizabeth Freeman will be unveiled Sunday on the town green in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Freeman was once an enslaved person who, in 1781, sued for her freedom and won. This helped lead to the end of slavery under the law in Massachusetts.

Public libraries and high schools across New Hampshire have been hosting a series of discussions surrounding the 80th anniversary of the internment of Japanese Americans.

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which sets prison terms of up to 30 years, has been more than a century in the making.

VPR's Mitch Wertlieb talks with Kekla Magoon about her latest book, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.