Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Six

On how news reporting is changing and consumers are engaging with new content about the other pandemic. From December 10, 2020.  Has the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 given people the time...and the mindset...to become more aware, more concerned and more vocal or active...about the other pandemic that's been dragging on for centuries? Perhaps it's the awareness of the news through mass media and social media that is driving new engagement in the vast array of new materials -- books, audio books, video -- about systemic racism and especially the constructed racism and oppression of Black people in western countries.  Concurrently, mass media reporting about both the individual flashpoint cases and the reality of systemic racism is changing; systemic racism is reported as fact. For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of bits from audio book samples from audible.ca including The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole, White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo, and How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Fleming.