Why Race Still Matters

Race Still Matters because of stories like the one linked here of Pinky Powell: born before the turn of the last century, she passed down to her great-granddaughter stories of the betrayal visited upon her in this country. We may be civil now, but our past is filled with brutality. And people are alive today who feel that violence and injustice acutely. They remember and love the soul who was persecuted. So it still matters to Mary Ellen Noone, who recorded the story of her great-grandmother with StoryCorps (www.storycorps.org). Listen to the story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88708253