Race

Young Black voters are becoming more conservative than their parents. Here's why

5:00am August 14, 2024

by Bria Suggs

Black voters are the most reliable Democratic voting bloc. Young voters overwhelmingly support the party, too. But young Black voters are a wild card as they feel disconnected from politics.

'White Robes and Broken Badges' exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan

2:12pm August 12, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped foil a plot to assassinate then Sen. Barack Obama. Moore explains how hate groups are growing.

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10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down

7:32am August 10, 2024

by Meg Anderson

Ten years ago, a white police officer killed Michael Brown, a Black teen in Ferguson, Mo. His death prompted nationwide protests and a White House report on American policing. How much has changed since his death?

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10 years after the killing of Michael Brown, mayor says Ferguson still has work to do

6:12pm August 09, 2024

Residents of Ferguson, Mo., reflect on how the city has changed since a white police officer killed a black teenager in 2014. The death of Michael Brown sparked huge demonstrations.

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10 years after Michael Brown’s death, we went to Ferguson to ask: What’s changed?

5:00am August 09, 2024

Morning Edition traveled to Ferguson and spoke to residents and leaders who have continued pushing for change in the city that was thrust into the national spotlight after the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old.

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Who's "woman" enough: The long history of sex testing in sports

3:00am August 09, 2024

by Rose Eveleth

Why are some female athletes asked to prove her womanhood? To understand how we got here, we're bringing you episode one of Tested, a new podcast series by our play cousins over at Embedded, made in partnership with CBC in Canada.

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Judge rules against majority of claims in Black student's hair discrimination case

3:47pm August 07, 2024

by Alana Wise

Darryl George's fight to wear his natural hair first began last summer.

Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.

The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

3:00am August 07, 2024

Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls "passport privilege," — and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to.

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3 Black women create an Olympic first in gymnastics

12:49pm August 05, 2024

by Bill Chappell

Emotions were running high for Rebeca Andrade, Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles — but mostly for different reasons — after they prevailed in the final gymnastics event at the Paris Olympics.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies To Senate Committee On Department's FY2023 Budget

Deb Haaland’s push to protect Indigenous people disappoints some Native leaders

4:00am August 05, 2024

by Emily Schwing

As a member of Congress, she passed a bill to hold the executive branch accountable for persistent violent crime in Native communities. Now she's a Cabinet secretary, but she's saying little about it.

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