Race

A graduation themed mural is seen in July 2021 on the Howard University campus in Washington.

Education Department will provide grants for HBCUs targeted by bomb threats

8:44pm March 16, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona about grant funds the administration is making available for HBCUs that have recently experienced a bomb threat.

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Ralph Lauren has released a limited fashion collection that collaborates with two leading historically Black colleges. It draws on the work of an all-Black creative team.

Arts

New Ralph Lauren collection explores collegiate style on historically Black campuses

5:32pm March 16, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

A young Black designer got Ralph Lauren to dedicate a new limited collection to the swanky collegiate style of HBCUs.

National

1 year after the Atlanta spa shootings, a look at the movement to Stop Asian Hate

4:14pm March 16, 2022

by Sandhya Dirks

On the anniversary of the spa shootings in Atlanta, we look at the long history of Anti-Asian hate, from pandemic-related hate to the fetishization of Asian women.

For same Asian Americans, it was the first time in Nashville they saw so many Asian Americans gathered in one place. This was a vigil last March for the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting.

A year after the Atlanta spa deaths, Asian American communities build stronger ties

3:35pm March 16, 2022

by Juliana Kim

After the slaying of six Asian American women in Atlanta last year, many Asian American are trying to build the infrastructure and resources for their communities to feel safe and supported.

A screen grab from the surveillance video that recorded an attack on a woman of Asian descent in Yonkers, N.Y., on March 11. The 42-year-old male suspect has been charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of assault as a hate crime.

National

Man arrested for the violent hate-crime beating of an Asian woman in N.Y., police say

9:45pm March 15, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

In a surveillance video released by police, the suspect is shown punching the victim in the face and head more than 125 times. He is being charged with attempted murder.

National

This journalist started owning her identity at work when covering anti-Asian violence

5:43pm March 15, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with CNN journalist Amara Walker about the persistence of violence against Asian American women, a year after the Atlanta area spa shootings.

Panel 4: "You might have a data set that's 75% male faces and over 80% lighter-skin faces. So what it means is the machine is learning a representation of the world that is skewed. But how are we getting such skewed data sets?"

Science

COMIC: How a computer scientist fights bias in algorithms

5:00am March 14, 2022

Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini is on a mission to fight bias in algorithms. In this comic, Buolamwini discusses the way biased algorithms can lead to real world inequality — and what we can do.

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Interstate 405 cuts through neighborhoods near the Los Angeles International Airport, seen here in 2017. A new study found links between modern urban air pollution and historical redlining at the national level.

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution

10:04pm March 10, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

A Census Bureau worker waits to gather information from people during a 2020 census promotional event in New York City.

The 2020 census had big undercounts of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans

2:59pm March 10, 2022

by Hansi Lo Wang

The Census Bureau has released its first report on the accuracy of the latest national head count that's used to distribute political representation and federal funding for the next decade.

Jussie Smollett talks to the media in 2019 before leaving the court in Cook County, Ill. The actor will face sentencing on Thursday.

National

Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him

12:27pm March 10, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim.