Race

NPR Story Inspires Hollywood Film

12:00pm April 20, 2009

by Wade Goodwyn

Filmmaker Bill Haney decided to make American Violet while he was driving home one afternoon in 2002. He was stuck in rush-hour traffic when he heard NPR correspondent Wade Goodwyn report the story of Regina Kelly. Haney was so moved by the story he turned it into a film. Goodwyn recalls his initial reporting and his more recent coverage of the movie's premiere in Regina Kelly's hometown of Hearne, Texas.

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Wisdom Watch: Veteran Journalist Beats The Odds

12:00pm April 01, 2009

Tim Giago, founder of the Native American Journalist Association, has been working as a journalist for more than three decades. Now, despite the country's recession and a shrinking print media industry, he's launching The Native Sun News, a weekly newspaper for Native Americans. Giago explains his inspiration and why he knows he will succeed.

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Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now

3:24pm January 20, 2009

Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.

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Obama And The Politics Of Being Biracial

10:00am December 18, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama defines himself as African-American. His mother is a white American, and his father is a black African. This hits a nerve with some people, who wonder why Obama doesn't use the term biracial to describe his race.

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Obama And The Politics Of Being Biracial

10:00am December 18, 2008

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Obama's Debt To The 'Moses Generation'

11:41am November 17, 2008

David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, discusses Obama's debt to the "Moses generation" of American civil rights leaders — activists who made it possible for Obama to lead his own "Joshua generation."

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Obama's Debt To The 'Moses Generation'

11:41am November 17, 2008

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How Will The Election Affect U.S. Race Relations?

11:10am November 13, 2008

As election results were announced on the evening of Nov. 4, people flooded streets across the country, celebrating the election of America's first black president. Now that the initial excitement has died down, guests and callers discuss the realities of racism in America — and what has and hasn't changed.

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How Will The Election Affect U.S. Race Relations?

11:10am November 13, 2008

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Amanda Jones, 109, visits with granddaughter Brenda Baker.

At 109, Slave's Daughter Revels In Historic Vote

12:35am November 05, 2008

Born in 1899 in central Texas, Amanda Jones is the living link between the time when a black man could be owned as property and when a black man could be elected president of the United States. She calls Barack Obama's election "a blessing."

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