The bostonbased new democracy coalition. The series is being supported by the mass humanities foundation, eastern bank and the boston foundation. Now joinis kevin peterson, founder of the new democracy coalitionment welcome to urban update. Lets start with why you are producing this series. Well, were at a point in this nation where still remains important to talk about race. Eight years after we elect the first africanamerican president. We still have issues racial issues across the country, i call them the revolts. Some cities, around black men being murdered, the response to that. Really indicative of how we have failed to really answer or give answer to the issue of racism in this country. Lots of work to be done. Now, we have seen the number of these types of events before. I guess do you think this is something that just theres a need for this to continue . Well, yeah. It is a continuing need for the conversation. We dont deal wit race if there is a conversation, dialogue, people
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