'White Girl Bleed A Lot'

Racial violence is back.  Along with widespread racial crime -- even riots. In hundreds of episodes in more than 80 cities since 2010,  groups of black people are roaming the streets of America -- assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, even raping and killing. Cities big and small. Expected and unexpected.

But local media and public officials are silent. Crime is color blind, says a Milwaukee police chief. Race is not important,  a Chicago newspaper editor assures us.

 Result: Few know about it. Fewer still are talking about it. 

'White Girl Bleed A Lot' is a somber look at the return of racial violence in America. More importantly, it's a look a racial violence the media and the government ignore. 

Colin Flaherty

Colin Flaherty is an award winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others. He is the author of White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It. As a reporter, he won more than 40 journalism awards, including Best Investigative from the Society of Professional Journalists in