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Fear Of The Black Man: How Racial Bias Could Affect Crime, Labor Rates

NPR | By Michel Martin

Published March 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM EDT

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professors Phillip Atiba Goff of UCLA and Harry Holzer of Georgetown University about how fears of African-American men are manifested in the criminal justice system and the labor market, and what that means for the broader African-American community.