Race

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The Desegregation Of Birmingham's Golf Courses

6:07pm June 21, 2013

by Audie Cornish

This week Audie Cornish takes us deeper into the news that shaped the city of Birmingham, Alabama in the summer of 1963. Today, she visits the Boswell-Highlands golf course and talks to black golfers about the journey to desegregate the city's public greens.

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A 17-year-old Civil Rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. This image led the front page of the next day's New York Times.

How The Civil Rights Movement Was Covered In Birmingham

1:47pm June 19, 2013

by Audie Cornish

There's a stark difference between how the national press covered the events of 1963 in Birmingham and how Birmingham's papers covered their own city. Audie Cornish talks with Alabama journalist Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat, about the disparity.

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How Do You Teach The Civil Rights Movement?

9:37pm June 17, 2013

by Cory Turner

As part of NPR's series marking 50 years since the summer of 1963 — a formative time in American politics and culture — we turn to Jackson, Miss. There the story of a summer youth workshop meant to bring the Civil Rights Movement out of the past and into the 21st Century unfolds.

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11-Year-Old Keeps Singing In Face Of Hate

7:59pm June 14, 2013

by Hansi Lo Wang

Sebastien de la Cruz sang the national anthem at a second game of the NBA Finals after his first performance spurred a flurry of racist tweets.

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In a new poll, just a quarter of single black women said they were looking for a long-term relationship, while nearly half of black men said they were.

National

Single Black Man Seeks LTR. Single Black Woman? Not So Much

11:25am June 12, 2013

by Christopher Johnson

A new poll of African-Americans found one bit of data that raised some eyebrows: Single black men were much more interested in long-term relationships than single black women.

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Sabina Mohyuddin was heckled as she spoke at the town meeting last week in Manchester, Tenn.

Religion

A Meeting On Tolerance Turns Into A Shouting Match

12:33pm June 11, 2013

by Blake Farmer

A forum meant to quell tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Tennessee was derailed by hecklers.

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Peggy Wallace Kennedy with her family (from left) Burns Kennedy, Leigh Kennedy, Stephanie Rion Kennedy (wife of Leigh) and Mark Kennedy.

National

A Daughter's Struggle To Overcome A Legacy Of Segregation

9:13am June 11, 2013

by Michele Norris

On June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood at the University of Alabama to block two black students attempting to cross the color line and register for classes. The event forever associated him with segregation. His daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, 63, is trying to shake that link.

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Sylvester Monroe and then-wife Regina at his graduation from Harvard University in 1973.

Fifty Years Later, 'A Better Chance' Trains Young Scholars

5:39am June 09, 2013

by Shereen Meraji

What do Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, singer-song writer Tracy Chapman, and the president of the Ford Foundation have in common? Answer: They were all "A Better Chance" scholars.

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African-Americans said they were optimistic about the future despite anxieties about possible financial hardships.

New Survey Takes A Snapshot Of The View From Black America

5:19pm June 06, 2013

by Gene Demby

Despite being buffeted by high unemployment and the recession in recent years, African-Americans expressed high levels of life satisfaction and optimism for the future.

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Myrlie Evers-Williams retells the moments before her husband's 1963 assassination during a memorial ceremony at the Evers family's former home.

National

Fifty Years After Medgar Evers' Killing, The Scars Remain

9:20am June 05, 2013

by Debbie Elliott

The assassination of the NAACP field secretary galvanized a growing civil rights movement, the effects of which are still being felt across the South today.

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