Counter Stories®

Most sports fans love their team and will do their best to make sure their team has a ‘winning’ edge. But what happens when fans use racial slurs as a way to ‘put off’ their rivals? How far should fans take sporting rivalry?

DFL State Rep. Mary Kunesh-Podein joined the Counter Stories team to talk about the underreported issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. Kunesh-Podein authored legislation that created the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force.

Andrea Jenkins, the first African-American openly transgender woman elected to public office in the U.S., joins the Counter Stories team to highlight the barriers society has placed on the transgender community.

The Counter Stories team looks at the impact of gun violence on families and the community.

The Counter Stories team discusses the links between anti-immigrant rhetoric and hate crimes.

The Counter Stories team looks at how communities of color are responding to the most recent mass shootings.

The commemoration of 400 years since the first Africans were enslaved in the United States has reinvigorated efforts to change the hearts and minds of U.S. Congress and America about reparations.

The Counter Stories team look at America's history of immigration, and what's changed.

Juneteenth marks when the people of Texas were finally informed that all enslaved people across the U.S. were no longer property of their masters.

In the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite movement and the lack of diversity in TV and films, there are some writers, actors, and directors from diverse backgrounds who are changing the narrative.