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Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden, pictured around 1942, with her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, and two of Hayden's great-grandchildren.

National

A granddaughter passes on the legacy of 'Granny Hayden,' a midwife born into slavery

2:31pm February 18, 2022

"If somebody needed help — Granny was going. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

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George Takei testifies before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in California in 1981.

Arts

George Takei got reparations. He says they 'strengthen the integrity of America'

1:07pm February 18, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

Sports

Seattle Kraken broadcasting duo makes NHL history as first all-Black TV crew

5:11am February 18, 2022

J.T. Brown and Everett Fitzhugh became the first all-Black broadcasting duo in NHL history when they called the Seattle Kraken's road game against the Winnipeg Jets on ROOT Sports Northwest.

People help a protester after he was shot with a rubber bullet in Austin, Texas, in May 2020 while protesting the death of George Floyd. The Austin City Council on Thursday approved paying a combined $10 million to two people injured when officers fired b

19 Austin police officers indicted from investigation into 2020 protests, sources say

7:06pm February 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Aggravated assault charges are among the most on a single police department over tactics used during the widespread protests over George Floyd's death.

'Born on the Water' puts the '1619 Project' into kids' hands

5:44pm February 17, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson discuss how their book, 1619 Project's Born on the Water, helps young Black children feel affirmed in where they come from.

A rise in Black immigrant population changes understanding of Black America

4:56pm February 17, 2022

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Belinda Deneen Wallace, a professor at the University of New Mexico, about a new Pew report finding 1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. were born outside the country.

Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent do not see themselves as white, and neither do many white people.

National

The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don't

9:56am February 17, 2022

by Hansi Lo Wang

People with Middle Eastern or North African roots must be counted as white in the federal government's data. But a study finds many do not see themselves as white, and neither do many white people.

National

Racist, violent evidence presented in federal trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers

10:16pm February 16, 2022

by Liz Baker

Offensive memes, racist songs and slurs against Black people from the cellphones and social media accounts of the three men on trial portray a history of bigotry.

NFL hires former AG Loretta Lynch to handle its racial discrimination suit

6:53pm February 16, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The former attorney general was tapped in 2020 by the NFL to work on an inquiry into claims of workplace misconduct involving the then-Washington Football Team.

Professional snowboarder Russell Winfield (left) teamed up with Virgil Abloh, the now-deceased head of Louis Vuitton's menswear, to design a limited-edition snowboard with Ride Snowboards. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Hoods to Woods.

Sports

Snowboarding was his passion. Making the sport more inclusive became his mission

2:18pm February 16, 2022

by Dustin Jones

For nearly all its history, snowboarding has been a sport that is disproportionately white. Through his Hoods to Woods Foundation, Brian Paupaw is trying to change that.