race relations

Then NAACP Chairman Julian Bond addresses the civil rights organization's annual convention in Detroit in 2007. Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died Saturday, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75.

Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader And Longtime NAACP Chair, Dies At 75

9:17am August 17, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The activist, who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was a key figure in organizing sit-ins and freedom rides and the 1963 March on Washington.

President Obama spoke with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep at the White House last week.

A Year After Ferguson, Obama Tells NPR He Feels 'Great Urgency'

3:48pm August 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In an interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, the president rejects the suggestion that political considerations put race relations on the back burner in his first term.

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Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, (left) poses with his uncle, Philip Lee, and father Peter Lee (seated) at the younger Peter Lee's home in Pasadena, Calif., in 2013.

Meet The California Family That Has Made Health Policy Its Business

6:24pm July 30, 2015

by Stephanie O'Neill

On Medicare's 50th birthday, two brothers who helped get it off the ground tell their stories. A younger member of the Lee family is at the helm of Covered California, the state insurance exchange.

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Arts

The Meaning Of A Hero Cast In Shadow, In Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman'

2:31pm July 21, 2015

The release of Harper Lee's long-lost novel — and its portrait of once-crusading attorney Atticus Finch — has shaken devotees of "To Kill a Mockingbird." One poet argues that nuance should be welcome.

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Sgt. Patrick Swanton of the Waco Police Department speaks to the media as Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper D.L. Wilson (left) stands near a Twin Peaks restaurant where nine members of a motorcycle gang were shot and killed in Waco, Texas, on Tues

National

On 'Menace II Society' And 'Easy Rider': Why All The Talk On Bikers And Thugs Matters

1:15pm May 22, 2015

by Maanvi Singh

Many have contrasted media treatment of bikers in the Waco shootout with its treatment of black protesters. Charles Blow says this speaks to an underlying fear "of the otherness of blackness."

A helicopter flies over a section of Baltimore affected by riots. Richard Rothstein writes that recent unrest in Baltimore is the legacy of a century of federal, state and local policies designed to "quarantine Baltimore's black population in isolated slu

National

Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos

1:25pm May 18, 2015

Richard Rothstein, who studies residential segregation in America, concludes: "Federal, state and local governments purposely created racial boundaries in these cities."

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Officers stand watch at the intersection of West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue as protesters walk for Freddie Gray in Baltimore in April. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van.

National

Police Rethink Tactics Amid New Technologies And Social Pressure

9:24pm May 14, 2015

by Martin Kaste

One officer says relations with the public are "about as bad as I've seen," as a take-charge method of policing collides with a more skeptical citizenry that can record and disseminate video anywhere.

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National

'Lawful Use' Of Force By Wisconsin Police Officer, DA Says

4:50pm May 12, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny shot and killed Tony Robinson, 19, on March 6. The case drew attention because of high-profile deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of the police.

Whiteness Project participants were filmed talking about race. The project doesn't use their names, to encourage frankness.

The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America

2:48pm May 01, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A filmmaker invited white residents of Buffalo, N.Y., to speak candidly about race. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates finds that the results are thought-provoking, often surprising and sometimes disturbing.

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Oakland police officers, wearing body cameras, form a line during demonstrations against recent incidents of alleged police brutality nationwide.

National

California Bill Could Limit Police Access To Body Camera Footage

12:46pm May 01, 2015

by Richard Gonzales

Lawmakers want to prohibit police officers from viewing video from their body cameras before they write their reports. It's part of an effort to bring more transparency to policing.

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