Overcoming the Odds with Harvard’s Roland Fryer
Conversations with Coleman | Coleman Hughes and Roland Fryer
An excellent conversation with Coleman and Roland, who ranks among Coleman’s top 5 most frequent guest requests. They discuss Roland’s childhood and special relationship with his grandmother, their relationships to their racial identities, America’s progress on racism, “whether race consciousness can ever be a good thing” and “the nebulous concept of systemic racism.” They talk about Roland’s contentious work on racial bias and police shootings and arrests and what he learned doing ride-alongs with police in Houston. They also discuss his alternative DEI company, Sigma Squared (see Fryer’s 6/20/22 Fortune article, It’s Time for Data-First Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).
Related:
Harvard Won’t Say if It Supports Diversity of Thought (RealClear Politics, 6/2/22)
Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor, Why? (Rob Montz Documentary, 5/27/22)
Harvard Economist Roland Fryer with HBS Alums Ian Rowe & Nique Fajors (Invisible Men, 7/7/20)
