racism How One Mental Health Expert Talked to Her Daughter About Allegations of Bias at Sesame Place Mental health expert Sheila Robinson-Kiss takes her daughter to Sesame Place every summer. When the 10-year-old became aware of social media posts alleging bias against Black children at the theme park, she was heartbroken. In a conversation with LX News host Ashley Holt, Robinson-Kiss shares how she discussed the issue with her daughter and offers advice to other parents.
extremism Hate Groups Expert: White Supremacist ‘Great Replacement' Conspiracy is On the Rise The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.
great replacement theory What Is the ‘Great Replacement' Theory and How Did It Go Mainstream? The “great replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory, is the false idea that white Americans are being systematically replaced by nonwhite people for control of the country, and it’s existed on the fringes of racist ideology for centuries. In the wake of a deadly Buffalo shooting motivated by white resentment, Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how it moved into...
aapi heritage A News Anchor Shares a Message of Hope After a Viewer's Anti-Asian Rant Goes Viral When a viewer left a racist anti-Asian message about news anchor Michelle Li, it brought back memories of a lifetime of hurtful discrimination. The St. Louis-based KSDK News anchor and reporter shares with LX News host Ashley Holt why she has hope things will be better for her son’s generation.
Refugees Americans More Accepting of Refugees From Ukraine Than Middle East, Central America, New Data Finds YouGov in collaboration with NBCLX surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults about whether the U.S. should take in refugees from Ukraine, El Salvador, Syria and Afghanistan.
Russia-Ukraine Crisis Are Americans Ready to Welcome Refugees? It Depends on Where They're From A new NBCLX/YouGov poll on refugees shows stark contrasts in attitudes toward refugees from Ukraine compared to other war-torn areas of the world like Afghanistan and Syria. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joined LX News to talk about the data on Americans’ attitudes toward welcoming refugees.
Education How Black History is Taught at One Mostly White College in Tennessee NBCLX went inside an African-American history class at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee, to learn how its professor and its students are tackling uncomfortable conversations about our nation’s past and present. (Note: This video contains the use of a racial slur. We have chosen not to edit it due to its context and the educational nature of the piece.)
September 11 Attacks How Racism After 9/11 Led to Trump's ‘Muslim Ban' and Shaped the Nation Today A record number of American Muslims ran for office in 2018 after Trump’s Trump’s ban on travelers from 13 countries with significant Muslim populations. That followed more than a decade of prejudice after the 9/11 attacks. NBCLX Storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo looks back at the history of how the nation treated Muslims following the attacks, and ties it to the present.
idina menzel Idina Menzel Shares What She's Learned From Parenting a Biracial Son Idina Menzel said she’s looked to her ex-husband Taye Diggs for guidance when answering her son’s questions about race and racism. The “Cinderella” and “Wicked” star opened up to NBCLX host Tabitha Lipkin about what she learned from parenting her biracial son and why it’s OK to say “I don’t know.”
hate crimes A Former Nazi and a Hate Crime Survivor Have a Conversation About Hate “You woke up every day, you’re at war with the world,” says former Nazi Jeff Schoep. In this video from NBCLX contributor Bart Vandever, Schoep and hate crime survivor Josh Stepakoff unpack why hate and radicalism permeate society today and their effects.
