VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Brattleboro Reformer reporter Chris Garofolo and with Brattleboro Union High School principal Jim Day about what’s being done to prevent racism issues at the school.
Sherwood Smith is a lecturer at UVM and the director of the school’s
Center for Cultural Pluralism. Shirley
Boyd Hill serves on the Vermont Human Rights Commission. They spoke with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about issue of racism
in our region
We explore what
racism looks like in our region. What
forms does it take? And is it an issue we talk enough about? Then, we visit the Dirt Divas camp for girls in Morrisville.
Nearly 200 people
turned out last night for a community forum on racism in Brattleboro, where the discovery of a racist group and the arrest
of a teenager on hate crime charges has shaken people up.
Veterans tell the VA Secretary and Senator Sanders that
they’re afraid to seek help for post-traumatic stress disorder because of the
stigma attached to the diagnosis;