A closer look at racist biases in the coverage of Ukraine

By Andrea Guthmann
A closer look at racist biases in the coverage of Ukraine
People walk to catch a train and leave Kramatorsk for western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the U.N. refugee agency warned the number could cross the 1 million mark soon. Countless others have taken shelter underground.
A closer look at racist biases in the coverage of Ukraine
People walk to catch a train and leave Kramatorsk for western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the U.N. refugee agency warned the number could cross the 1 million mark soon. Countless others have taken shelter underground.

A closer look at racist biases in the coverage of Ukraine

By Andrea Guthmann
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

Most of us have been shocked by the death and destruction we’ve seen in news coverage of the war in Ukraine. But some have begun voicing their shock over something else they’re seeing: bias and racism.

Reset takes a closer look at how the media is covering the war and how Black refugees are being treated at the border.

GUESTS: H. A. Hellyer, scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and fellow at Cambridge University

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania