Race

To help everyone, help the most marginalized first, says new congressional report

8:05am March 27, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman about "Black Women Best," an economic framework challenging leaders to enact reform centered on improving the lives of Black women.

Arts
Economy

A Pa. museum is paying Black residents back on their overtaxed and undervalued homes

8:03am March 26, 2022

by Bill O'Driscoll

A Pittsburgh artist has collaborated with a local museum to address the inequities Black homeowners experience when they are overtaxed by city officials.

New Orleans rescinds a long-ignored rule prohibiting jazz and dancing in schools

4:57pm March 25, 2022

by Aubri Juhasz

A 100-year-old ban on jazz music and dancing in New Orleans' public schools has finally been lifted — though it was never really enforced.

Law students from Southern University Law Center traveled from Baton Rouge, LA, to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Law students praise Ketanji Brown Jackson's poise at the Senate hearings

4:23pm March 25, 2022

by Alana Wise

Ketanji Brown Jackson's posture at the U.S. Senate hearings drew praise from Black law students.

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National

2 sisters reminance about the family's laundry business in Hollywood

7:39am March 25, 2022

by Jo Corona

Suzi and Donna Wong grew up just minutes from the big movie studios, but a world away. There dad moved to the U.S. from China and opened a laundry business on Melrose Avenue in 1949.

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Black law students react to Judge Jackson navigating GOP senators questions

5:13am March 25, 2022

by Alana Wise

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman in the nation's history to be nominated to the Supreme Court. For many Black future attorneys, her nomination has given them hope.

People of color were responsible for the majority of opening-weekend domestic ticket sales for big Hollywood hits such as Spider-Man: No Way Home enjoyed.

Arts

People of color helped Hollywood through another pandemic year, a new study says

3:34pm March 24, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

According to the Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA, films with casts that were less than 11% minority did worse at the box office than their more diverse counterparts.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wipes away tears during her confirmation as Sen. Cory Booker quotes Langston Hughes in support of her.

The history behind the Langston Hughes poem used in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing

1:09pm March 24, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Sen. Cory Booker quoted the lines to support Supreme Court nominee Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing. Hughes' poem is a searing look at race and class in America.

A doctor chronicles life in a Chicago ER during the first year of the pandemic

1:16pm March 23, 2022

by Dave Davies

Though he fully expected to be infected with COVID, Dr. Thomas Fisher says he was committed to providing medical care to the Black community on Chicago's South Side. His new book is The Emergency.

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A new opera about Emmett Till is criticized for being created from a white perspective

9:11am March 23, 2022

by Quincy Walters

While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.

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