Episodes

Episode 4, “The Mask of Normality,” explores how organized hate rebrands itself as respectability through rhetoric, tech, and charismatic leaders. Connie Morris examines Tony McAleer’s transformation into a public face for Wh...

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Host Connie Morris breaks down chapter two of Tony McClure’s The Cure for Hate, "School Days," exploring how adolescence, family pain, and classroom responses can turn rebellion into pride and, ultimately, the beginnings of h...

Connie Morris explores Tony McAlear’s transformation from a childhood of silence and anger to a life of reconciliation and radical compassion. This episode examines how neglect, social systems, and unmet emotional needs can b...

Episode 15 of The Morris Perspective finds Connie Morris revisiting the Kerner Commission’s 1968 warnings and showing how segregation, economic inequality, over-policing, and mass incarceration still echo in 2025. She urges t...

Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's 1968 warnings and shows how America ignored its recommendations, resulting in persistent segregation, economic inequality, and militarized policing that continue to harm Bla...

Host Connie Morris lays out evidence from the Kerner Commission showing how housing segregation, job discrimination, underfunded schools, and policing created systemic theft of Black wealth and opportunity. She argues reparat...

In episode 12, Connie Morris explores how America responded to the Kerner Commission with punishment instead of investment, tracing the rise of mass incarceration, its racial disparities, and the policies that fueled it—from ...

In this episode, Connie Morris traces how the Kerner Commission’s call for investment and justice was rejected in favor of a “law and order” political agenda that led to Nixon’s war on drugs, bipartisan harsh sentencing, and ...

Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's bold 1968 recommendations—housing, jobs, education, and healthcare—and how those proposals were ignored in favor of war and punitive domestic policies. This episode traces t...

Episode 9 examines the Kerner Commission's 1968 warning that America was splitting into two societies — wealthy suburbs and impoverished, predominantly Black inner cities. Connie Morris reviews how missed investments in housi...

Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's findings on how 1967 media coverage distorted Black uprisings by focusing on violence and fear while ignoring causes like racism, poverty, and housing discrimination. She explore...

In episode 7, Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's findings on the 1967 uprisings, detailing mass arrests, emergency courts, and how the legal system punished Black communities while excusing white violence. She exp...

Connie Morris revisits the Kerner Commission’s 1968 findings on policing in Black neighborhoods: police encounters that sparked unrest, abusive tactics that symbolized white authority, and the escalation of force that deepene...

Episode 5 of The Morris Perspective explores the Kerner Commission's on-the-ground findings about life inside Black ghettos: widespread unemployment, strained families, overcrowded and unsafe housing, and chronically underfun...

Host Connie Morris examines how federal policies, redlining, restrictive covenants, white flight, and urban renewal deliberately created and maintained the ghetto, trapping Black families in poverty and blocking access to wea...

Host Connie Morris explores the Kerner Commission's findings on the 1967 uprisings, revealing how systemic racism, redlining, segregation, unemployment, failing schools, and police brutality created modern ghettos and fueled ...

Host Connie Morris examines the Kerner Commission's investigations into the 1967 uprisings in Detroit, Newark, Tampa, Cincinnati, and Atlanta, revealing a clear pattern behind the unrest. The episode details police-triggered ...

Connie Morris examines how mass incarceration became America’s answer to the Kerner Commission—tracing the explosive growth of prisons, the policies that fueled racial disparities, and the human cost to families and communiti...

Host Connie Morris introduces a season-long deep dive into the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, exploring the 1967 uprisings, the commission's finding that America was becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and...

In this closing episode of the "Fire Still Burning" series, Connie Morris summarizes Elizabeth Hinton's American on Fire, tracing the continuous pattern of rebellion from the 1960s to 2020 and showing how structural injustice...

In Episode 11 of The Morris Perspective, host Connie Morris examines chapter 10 of Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire to reveal how "reform" became a tool for preserving, not fixing, systems of oppression. Through historical ...

In episode 10, host Connie Morris examines Chapter 9 of Elizabeth Hinton's American on Fire, revealing how 1970s federal proposals for youth programs, housing, and community-centered safety were rejected and replaced with pun...

Host Connie Morris breaks down Chapter 8 of Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire, exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system was designed to control rebellion and manage populations rather than deliver justice. The episode tra...