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Phillip Martin

ReporterWGBH News
Since joining WGBH in the spring of 2010, Phillip Martin has reported on human trafficking in southern New England, the Boston Marathon bombing, Whitey Bulger, carbon offset schemes, police shootings, training and race, the Occupy movement and the fishing industry in New England, among other topics. On WGBH-TV, he is a regular panelist for Basic Black and an occasional panelist for Beat the Press, and hosted the World Compass 2012 presidential primary coverage. He is a Senior Fellow with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a 2012 International Center for Journalists Ford Foundation Fellow.In addition, Phillip is executive producer for Lifted Veils Productions, a nonprofit public radio journalism project dedicated to exploring issues that divide and unite society. Phillip has worked as a supervising senior editor for NPR and was NPR’s first national race relations correspondent, from 1998 to 2001. In 1995, in his role as a senior producer, he helped create The World.
Arrests of Brazilians in the United States
7:07
Liberal Party’s victory in Canada’s federal election marks a shift
4:48
Supporters of the Palestinian cause being disappeared off US streets
5:33
Immigrant storytellers in the US are afraid to take the stage
3:45
50 years ago, Chinese students were an underserved afterthought in Boston’s busing crisis
7:03
A young woman is shown wearing a face mask and backpack while holding a laptop.
Health & Medicine
Discussion: Mental health concerns for students of color heightened amid the coronavirus
A crowd of protesters are shown with a man in the center holding a sign that reads, "Racism is a pandemic too."
Health & Medicine
Discussion: Mental health concerns for young people of color during COVID-19
street
Caste in America
Dalit Americans make a pilgrimage to Ambedkar Avenue, named for civil rights hero
A woman looks to the side.
Caste in America
Caste discrimination exists on college campuses. Some schools are trying to change that.
Several women in saris and a man laugh
Caste in America
Even with a Harvard pedigree, caste follows ‘like a shadow’
A former sex buyer, now in recovery, revisits Boston's Chinatown where he sometimes frequented erotic massage parlors. He says such establishments are all over the state.
Economics
Across the US, many illicit massage parlors avoid police detection
Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who runs the Bristol County Jail
Conflict
How a few notations by a school resource officer caused a teen to wind up in a high-security detention facility
Handwritten notations on a school resource officer's police report tagged Lemus as a member of the 18th Street gang.
Conflict
On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs
Agence France-Presse
Africa’s albinos seek their place in the sun
Business, Finance & Economics
Why white skin is all the rage in Asia
Behnam Partopour, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student from Iran, is greeted by his sister Bahar (L) at Logan Airport after he cleared U.S. customs and immigration on an F1 student visa in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. February 3, 2017. Partopour
Justice
Why a Boston judge decided to let Trump’s immigration order move forward
Man standing in front of desk
Media
The reconciliation of Mark Wahlberg
Luis Alfredo Velara Mendoza is from Caracas
Economics
The man who guards our doors — and his valiant effort to save his brother in Venezuela
trump east boston
Global Politics
In Boston, Latinos push back against Trump supporters in their neighborhood
Joey G - Brockton
Education
Stopping the school-to-prison pipeline: Here’s how one city is doing it
Main Somali youth 2
Education
Somali youth in one Maine city are learning to navigate several cultures
Members of the Nordic Order Knights and the Rebel Brigade Knights, groups that both claim affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, in a cross lighting ceremony on a fellow member's property in Henry County, Virginia, August 9, 2014.
Conflict
Domestic terrorism: Conservative politicians play down threat from the far right
Watertown shootout
Conflict
What San Bernardino police learned from the Boston Marathon bombings manhunt
Syria Mass.
Conflict
Syrians in the US respond to their demonization: ‘People looking at us as terrorists’
Conflict
What does human trafficking look like today? How do we stop it?
refugee camp
Conflict
Oxfam America wants more refugees. But some warn of radical jihadist infiltration.
New Orleans 2
Global Politics
Do feel-good slogans like ‘Resilient New Orleans’ and ‘Boston Strong’ mask income inequality?
Julian Bond 2
Justice
In one of his final interviews, Julian Bond explained the animus toward Obama
Bernard Law 2
Belief
The pope promises accountability to victims abused by the church. Where is Cardinal Law?
Items left at a memorial at the Armed Forces Career Center are seen in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Justice
How do we define domestic terrorism? The legal meaning of a loaded term.
New York
Culture
When the lights went out in New York City: A tale of two nights
National Youth Front flyer
Conflict
In the US, domestic hate groups look to radicalize followers online and on campus
Angel Echavarria with his 22-year-old daughter, Ishannis Lopez, and other family members.
Justice
‘I never give up.’ New evidence prompts release of man after 21 years in prison.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev penalty phase verdict
Justice
What the Tsarnaev death penalty form looks like
Aloke Chakravarty, a prosecutor, addressed jurors during closing arguments in the Boston Marathon bombings trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second from right, at the federal courthouse in Boston on Monday.
Justice
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty on all charges in Boston Marathon bombing
Conflict & Justice
Duped, Sold into Prostitution, then Rescued: A Vietnamese Girl and the Man Who Saved Her
Arts, Culture & Media
A Hot Friday Night in North Vietnam
Conflict & Justice
Somalia’s Plight Overlooked Among Global Troubles
Conflict & Justice
Freedom Riders Ride Again
Global Politics
Leaving Malta
Conflict & Justice
The challenges faced by Africans living in Malta
Business, Economics and Jobs
From Libya to detention in Malta
Business, Economics and Jobs
From Somalia to Denver, the long way
Arts, Culture & Media
Jungle Boys
Global Politics
Private militias in the Philippines
Conflict & Justice
Turmoil in Turkey
Conflict & Justice
Race debate in China
Global Politics
Skin: a youth under apartheid
Conflict & Justice
Fighting discrimination against albinos
Conflict & Justice
Albinos face discrimination in Africa
Arts, Culture & Media
The color of success in Asia
Conflict & Justice
Skin whitening big business in Asia
Conflict & Justice
Africans in New York
Conflict & Justice
Racial attitudes in Puerto Rico
Conflict & Justice
Immigration and skin color
Global Politics
2010 Shanghai exposition
Conflict & Justice
Malaysia’s ethnic Indians protest