Just a Word

Southlake’s leaders try to bring the community together in the weeks after the viral N-word video. But inside the halls of Carroll High, Black students aren't feeling heard. In the midst of the turmoil, 17-year-old Raven Rolle secretly records her emotional showdown in the principal’s office with a white student who insists that anyone should be able to say the N-word. Meanwhile, the school district is forging ahead with a plan to address racist bullying, but before officials can release it, a pandemic and a national racial reckoning throws everything off track. A friend of Raven’s, Nikki Olaleye, organizes a Black Lives Matter rally in town square—and fear takes hold in Southlake.

CORRECTION (Sept. 2, 2021, 04:30 p.m. ET): A previous version of this episode misstated the hotel where the 2018 homecoming dance was held. It was a Hilton hotel, not a Westin.

A Racial Reckoning?

An overdue conversation about race. My struggle is with an actual action plan that teaches people how to engage with each other's humanity.

This is the History of SLAVERY unreconciled!!!

This same story is now happening all over America in predominantly white suburbs . It's time to wake up and smell the coffee!

Can't we all just get along

I think that in a country as great in accomplishment as the US we cannot find it within ourselves to face the unpleasant truths of how we came to be. We will not be able to sit down and have civil discussions until we do. The US was built on racism and a belief of racial superiority. We are not quite 250yrs old. We have had many more years of legal and institutional and systemic genocide, slavery, black codes, jim crow, lynchings and oppression than the 57 years since the now abolished civil rights act was past. It is absolutely naive to argue that the group that had sole power in this country somehow just gave it up and said okay things are equal now. Those same people accuse those who speak up for justice by labeling them as woke should stop sleepwalking and WAKE UP! It is time to teach the truth so the children will have the empathy and understanding that our current leaders don't. Only then can we hold the truths as described in the Declaration of Independence self evident, that ALL men (mankind) are created equal.