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'Playing Russian Roulette With Our Own Lives’: At Black-Owned Funeral Homes in New Orleans, COVID Takes a Harsh Toll
Watch a scene from ‘Death Is Our Business,’ a new documentary from FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel.
March 22, 2021
Not an Either/Or: Minnesota Police Officer and Dad Find Common Ground on Race and Policing
The fault line that cracked open last summer between Jai Hanson and his father, retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Sam Hanson, is not a unique story in this divisive era.
Star Tribune
March 20, 2021
Can Police Reform Work? A Mayor and a Historian Discuss Policing in Newark, N.J.
Ras Baraka is the mayor of Newark, N.J. Jelani Cobb is an academic and a writer for The New Yorker. Watch and read their conversations, five years apart, for "Policing the Police," available for the first time as extended videos and transcripts.
March 16, 2021
Ras Baraka (2020)
In the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sat down with Jelani Cobb — historian, staff writer for The New Yorker and FRONTLINE correspondent — to discuss policing and race relations in Newark.
March 16, 2021
Ras Baraka (2015)
Ras Baraka has served as the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, since 2014. In 2015, he sat down with historian Jelani Cobb, who also happens to be an old friend, to discuss policing and race relations in Newark.
March 16, 2021
The Frontline Interview: Ras Baraka
Read and watch Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's 2020 conversation with historian and FRONTLINE correspondent Jelani Cobb.
March 16, 2021
The Frontline Interview: Ras Baraka
Read and watch Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's 2015 conversation with historian and FRONTLINE correspondent Jelani Cobb.
March 16, 2021
Un(re)solved
A story of civil rights era cold cases and families still searching for justice.
March 16, 2021
‘The Worst Has Passed’: Recovered From COVID, a Family Weathers Challenges Shared by Many Latino Immigrants
Featured in the August 2020 documentary "Love, Life & the Virus," the family shared an update with FRONTLINE: thankful to be healthy but grappling with reduced work hours and remote schooling.
March 15, 2021
Chinese Legislature Tightens Control Over Hong Kong Elections
The move delivers yet another blow to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, which FRONTLINE covered in the 2020 film "Battle for Hong Kong."
March 11, 2021