Cenjorai Cominica: How it feels to be on the other side of that is, I'm not going to lie. She says people recoil from the idea of a radical rethinking of the criminal justice system. "I think no one is waiting for white folks to do it," she says. Next time an African American photographer and her photo essay, My White Friends,. turning the lens, literally.
For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with an African American teenager. Then he and recurring guest Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss that longstanding image – and its neglected flipside: white-on-black violence.