Race

U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee took home a bronze medal for her performance on the uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as a gold medal in the women's all-around.

National

Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee says she was pepper-sprayed in a racist attack in LA

10:12am November 12, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The all-around champion, who is Hmong American, says she was with a group of friends of Asian descent in Los Angeles when people in a passing car yelled at them to "go back to where they came from."

Phillip Atiba Goff speaks at TED2019: Bigger Than Us. April 15 - 19, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Bret Hartman / TED

Science

Phillip Atiba Goff: How can communities reimagine their approach to public safety?

9:23am November 12, 2021

Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff analyzes data on how racial bias affects police behavior. He shares how communities can rethink their public safety systems, and ultimately better respond to crises.

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World News

The complicated legacy of F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president

4:36pm November 11, 2021

by Eyder Peralta

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993, but always remained a divisive figure.

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This photo released by the Louisville (Kentucky) Police shows Louisville Police Det. Myles Cosgrove after a narcotics raid on March 13, 2020. Cosgrove is fighting to get his job back with the Louisville Police Department after his firing earlier this year

National

Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor appeals to get his job back

5:01am November 10, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Myles Cosgrove was one of the seven officers assigned to execute a no-knock search warrant on Taylor's apartment in March 2020.

National

A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past

5:00am November 10, 2021

by Scott Neuman

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

In this Nov. 17, 2016 photo, Chris Kempczinski, then-incoming president of McDonald's USA, speaks at a McDonald's restaurant in New York's Tribeca neighborhood. Kempczinski is under fire for comments he made in a text message to the Chicago mayor.

National

McDonald's CEO apologizes after saying 2 slain children were failed by their parents

7:11pm November 09, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

Chris Kempczinski held a town hall with employees on Monday after reports revealed he messaged Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and appeared to blame the death of two shooting victims on their parents.

Indigenous activists say the legacy of colonialism has limited their access to COP-26

7:49pm November 08, 2021

Indigenous activists from around the world are in Glasgow for COP26, but say the same legacy of colonialism that has led to climate-related losses has impacted their access to the conference.

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Philadelphia's new Driving Equity Act bars police officers from pulling over drivers for minor traffic violations with an aim to closing racial disparities in traffic stops.

National

Why Philadelphia has banned low-level traffic stops

3:35pm November 08, 2021

by Jonaki Mehta

City councilmember Isaiah Thomas, who spearheaded the new legislation, says the new rule was inspired in part by his own experiences with police as a Black man.

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Arts

Broadway returns as theater rethinks on-stage representation

6:19pm November 06, 2021

by Jeff Lunden

After more than a year of closures and reflection, Broadway is back making changes to who is represented on stage.

Politics & Government

Black Republicans walk a fine line toward election victory

5:24pm November 06, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Leah Wright Rigueur, author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican, about what this week's elections signal for Black conservatives.

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