#  Media 

 



 [The Kerner Report on Race, 50 Years On. ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/harvard-professor-reflects-on-the-kerner-report-50-years-on/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180323)*Harvard Gazette.* March 21, 2018.

 [Jamaica: The Confounding Island.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSrwKXaUW4) Recorded February 2018.

 *[The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5pnxMCMzk)* Recorded February 2018.

 [Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement ](http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/live-stream/)(introduction by Steve Pinker). September 15, 2016. \[Introduction begins at 1:26:46 time marker.\]

 [Discussing The Cultural Matrix.](http://wcpn.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-ideas/orlando-patterson-discusses-the-cultural-matrix-understanding-black-youth) The Sound of Ideas, Ideastream. September 15, 2016.

 ["Freedom and Contestation in Western Culture: From the Ancient Greeks to America's Tea Party."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGRl3vvqbE) Yan P. Lin Centre Inaugural Address. April 13, 2016.

 ["After Ferguson: What Now? The Roots of Racial Discord."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOvRHK7pPQk) American Form, The Miller Center, University of Virginia. June 7, 2015.

 [Discussing the State of Black Men in the United States.](https://www.c-span.org/video/?325656-1/discussion-improving-opportunity-african-american-community) The American Enterprise Insitute \[via C-SPAN\]. April 29, 2015.

 [Interview with *Salon*.](https://www.salon.com/2015/02/25/he_got_intimidated_by_the_right_orlando_patterson_on_president_obama_race_black_culture/) February 25, 2015.

 [Patterson on *Slate's* The Gist podcast.](http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/01/the_gist_orlando_patterson_on_race_and_hua_hsu_on_civility.html) \[at 7:00 time marker.\] *Slate*, January 6, 2015.

 [Examining the Lives of Black Youth.](http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/12/07/examining-lives-black-youth/W2gSUa90mR1v3vYPWYgOeN/story.html) *The Boston Globe,* December 7, 2014.

 ["How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant." ](https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Sociologists-Made/150249)*The Chronicle of Higher Education*, December 1, 2014.

 ["Democracy and Violence: Is There a Link?"](http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxJamaica-Orlando-Patterson-D) TEDxJamaica. December 29, 2010.