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The Spread of Hate and Racism
Confronting a Growing Public Crisis

Summary

The Spread of Hate and Racism: Confronting a Growing Public Crisis
Presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH
Brief Video Highlight

February 13, 2019

In 2017, reports of hate crimes in the United States increased for the third consecutive year, according to the FBI. In addition to physical acts, such actions and other messages of racism, intolerance and extremism potentially impact large numbers of people online. In this Forum, experts tackled the painful and distressing spread of hate and racism. What social, political and psychological forces drive prejudice? How do modern media and the Internet enable and amplify hateful and racist messages? What are the impacts on the health and cohesion of society — and what can be done?

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH

Image Credit: iStockphoto.com/PeopleImages

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Moderator

Phillip Martin
Senior Investigative Reporter, GBH Center for Investigative Reporting

Expert Participants

Maureen Costello
Director of Teaching Tolerance and Member of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Senior Leadership Team

Jim Doyle
Health Care Lawyer and Former Governor and Attorney General of Wisconsin

Dipayan Ghosh
Pozen Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Oren Segal
Director, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League

David Williams
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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