Illinois Public Media News

Demonstrations protesting police brutality continue this week as The 21st speaks to the reporters who are covering it on the ground. 

On today's 21st, reporters from around the state give an update on protests in smaller, largely white communities and we talk with Professor Joseph Flynn about his book White Fatigue.

From declaring racism a public health crisis to how can white people support black people who might be feeling battle fatigue, or simply overwhelmed in the wake of the kiling of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breona Taylor and others... The 21st sought answers from Helen Neville, professor of Educational Psychology and African-Americans Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

On today's 21st, we talk with educational psychologist Helen Neville about racism and revisit a conversation about scams during COVID-19.

Last week’s killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis made clear that policing needs to change. Just a few years earlier in 2015, the city had participated in a multi-million dollar, multi-year partnership between academics and law enforcement. It provided anti-bias training, better data collection and surveying of both police and community members.