Media

The Kerner Report on Race, 50 Years On. Harvard Gazette. March 21, 2018.

Jamaica: The Confounding Island. Recorded February 2018.

The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth. Recorded February 2018.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (introduction by Steve Pinker). September 15, 2016. [Introduction begins at 1:26:46 time marker.]

Discussing The Cultural Matrix. The Sound of Ideas, Ideastream. September 15, 2016. 

"Freedom and Contestation in Western Culture: From the Ancient Greeks to America's Tea Party." Yan P. Lin Centre Inaugural Address. April 13, 2016. 

"After Ferguson: What Now? The Roots of Racial Discord." American Form, The Miller Center, University of Virginia. June 7, 2015.

Discussing the State of Black Men in the United States. The American Enterprise Insitute [via C-SPAN]. April 29, 2015. 

Interview with Salon. February 25, 2015.

Patterson on Slate's The Gist podcast. [at 7:00 time marker.] Slate, January 6, 2015.

Examining the Lives of Black Youth. The Boston Globe, December 7, 2014. 

"How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant." The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 1, 2014.

"Democracy and Violence: Is There a Link?" TEDxJamaica. December 29, 2010.