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Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya's artisan ice cream, poses for a photo as he carries a tray of ice pops in the kitchen of his shop in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2024.

In Florida, an exodus of people fleeing rising anti-immigrant sentiment

6:00pm April 24, 2024

by Jasmine Garsd

Nearly a year ago, Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. It's caused an exodus in some communities. Those who stayed behind say it's made life terrifying.

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An illustration of William Lewis Moore staring down U.S. 11, the highway he was murdered on. Moore's portrait is framed in the silhouette of a common historical marker template: a rectangular sign, with a rounded top edge for a state seal.

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COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder

10:19am April 24, 2024

by Connie Hanzhang Jin

In 1963, William Lewis Moore was murdered in Alabama while on a civil rights protest walk. Silence around the murder bothered one man for years, until he campaigned to put up a marker about it.

Riders pass a baton during a Pony Express relay race in Okmulgee, Okla.

A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book

5:00am April 24, 2024

by Olivia Hampton

NPR's A Martinez speaks with photojournalist Ivan McClellan about his new book documenting Black cowboys, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.

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A grassroots effort in Michigan is raising reparations — while the government lags

5:26pm April 23, 2024

by Sophia Saliby

When state and federal legislation is slow, if at all, a Michigan church in East Lansing is gathering money and making plans to distribute funds.

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Structures in the Freedom Monument Sclupture park give a sense of the homes enslaved individuals lived in.

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Freedom Monument Park tells honest story of enslaved people

9:49am April 22, 2024

by Kyle Gassiott

The new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, is designed to get visitors closer to the experiences of enslaved people in America.

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Alabama's Freedom Monument Sculpture Park tells the story of enslaved people

5:10pm April 21, 2024

by Kyle Gassiott

Montgomery, Ala., has a new monument park where visitors are confronted with the history of enslaved people in America.

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Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study

3:07pm April 19, 2024

by Hao Peng

A new study finds that in news stories about scientific research, U.S. media were less likely to mention a scientist if they had an East Asian or African name, as compared to one with an Anglo name.

A lethal injection gurney is seen at the at Nevada State Prison, a former penitentiary in Carson City, Nev., in 2022.

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States botched more executions of Black prisoners. Experts think they know why

11:32am April 18, 2024

by Chiara Eisner

A study showed states made more mistakes when executing Black prisoners by lethal injection than they did with prisoners of other races. Execution workers and race experts said they're not surprised.

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Sports

'The Long Game': Story of Mexican American high schoolers who became golf champs

5:06am April 17, 2024

In 1957, a group of Mexican American high school students overcame racist barriers to win the Texas state golf championship. The story is told in the new film The Long Game.

Health & Safety

Why more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant patients are moving up on the waitlist

5:03am April 16, 2024

A race-based calculation to determine kidney function left many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist than they should have been. NPR's A Martinez talks to one man who was moved ahead.