To many who watched Sunday's presidential town hall, the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wasn't just notable for the issues it addressed — such as Trump's recently revealed comments about women — but also for an issue it didn't: race and racism in America.

Its near-absence was especially glaring because the event took place less than 10 miles away from Ferguson, Missouri, where, in 2014, the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, sparked a national conversation about police brutality in communities of color.

According to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer with The New York Times Magazine, policing was not the only topic that got short-shrift. Both candidates, she told WNYC's Jami Floyd, have failed to address racial inequity in schools, housing and income: "We have not heard specific platform issues from either candidate that are going to address these big systemic issues," she said.