DISCOVERY presented by UW Law

In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 1969, FBI agents raided the apartment where Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton was sleeping and shot him dead. Years later, a Chicago Police Department detective by the name of Jon Burge charged up a small electric box that would soon be used to torture hundreds of black men. The connection:  Flint Taylor , author, attorney and founding partner of the P...

The world feels more divided than ever, and in the age of social media, 24-hour cable news and polarizing political rhetoric, it can feel impossible to talk to each other about the biggest issues of our time. Ken Cloke is changing that narrative. As founder of the Center for Dispute Resolution, he has worked with myriad clients at the individual and corporate levels to facilitate conversations aro...

Whether you're a barista, barrister or baseball player, most everyone experiences a negative work environment at some point in his, her or their career. And given the average person will spend some 90,000 hours in the workplace over a lifetime, a toxic culture can be downright destructive to employees. Dr. Rhea Settles witnessed this firsthand in multiple levels of the education system, inspiring...