If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. As we near the end of the first term of our nation’s first African American President, does race still matter? How have our perceptions of race changed? Craig Futterman shares observations and experiences arising from his and his students’ engagement working on issues of police accountability from the ground floor of a family high rise in a Chicago public housing community that made up eight square blocks of Chicago’s South Side. Prof. Futterman argues that engaging this “view from the ground” is necessary to inform our policies and conversations around fundamental issues of race and class in America and to move us toward a more just society.