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GRITtv: Why the Racism?

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The latest campaign from Brave New Foundation focuses on the nastiest undercurrent to the tea party and right wing movements in this country: the racism. This video looks at some examples and offers a way for you to get involved in calling out racism when you see it.

GRITtv: Racial Profiling: It's Time to Face the Truth

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Our friends at the Applied Research Center and the Rights Working Group are organizing a "night of 1000 conversations" around racial profiling, and they sent us this video to ask for your support and involvement.

GRITtv: Frank Schaeffer: "Post-Racial? Not Quite."

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Frank Schaeffer has had enough of claims that America is now in a "post-racial" era; if that's true, he asks, why does so much of the opposition to Obama's actions seem to have a nasty undertone?

GRITtv: What's Missing In Today's Media?

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Every week on GRITtv, we discuss the week in news: stories that made a splash, stories that were ignored, stories that were covered well, or stories that were covered badly.

GRITtv: What We Forget When We Talk About John Mayer

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Even though, Jay Smooth notes, John Mayer's "White privilege is a wonderland," he swears he's not going to talk about Mayer's offensive comments in a recent interview. Why? Because the issues about race that matter aren't one pop star's big mouth: they're structural, systemic, and institutional.

GRITtv: The F Word: Human Interest In Bank Practices

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How much senior executives earn, in cash and stock, is public information. How they make it is public too. Trouble is, the two are barely brought together in reporting. One story's a business story, the other's, well, for the "human interest" file. As all humans have a reason to be interested, let's pull the pieces of one tale together. Let's take Wells Fargo, the bank whose CEO just topped the charts -- as the top earner in the country for 2009. According to analysis released by Equilar, an executive compensation research firm, Wells Fargo CEO John G.

GRITtv: Kevin Alexander Gray: Waiting for Lightning to Strike

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"The successful movement is always going to be ordinary people doing extraordinary things," says Kevin Alexander Gray, somewhat of an expert on social movements. A longtime civil rights organizer and resident of South Carolina, Gray has been involved in movements from the Rainbow Coalition to campaigns to organize class action suits against banks.

GRITtv: Got Docs? The Pass It On Project

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Two teachers at a Brooklyn middle school, frustrated with a lack of social-justice education in public schools, founded the Pass it On Project to engage their students, mostly black and Latino, around issues of race and the civil rights movement. They ended up taking a road trip through the South, visiting historic sites and learning from leaders from the civil rights era. The Pass It On Project is a feature documentary about that experience.

GRITtv: Nancy Giles: Optimistic About Race

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Nancy Giles of CBS's Sunday Morning joined us not long ago to talk about the decade that was. Looking forward into the new year, though, she says that she's optimistic about race in America for one reason -- and that reason might surprise you.

GRITtv: Media Panel: Healthcare, US Blind to Middle East Atrocities and Tom Delay's New Gig

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According to a report released last week, one person dies every 12 minutes due to lack of heath insurance-- an appalling fact ignored in the mainstream media. Also in this week's headlines: the UN General Assembly kicked off and Tom Delay joins the cast of "Dancing With the Stars." We are joined by Rose Aguilar, Andrew Golis, Ali Abunimah and Margaret Kimberley, to discuss these and other under-reported-- as well as "over-reported"-- affairs from this past week.

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