Race

Encore: Ahmaud Arbery muralist turns to Brunswick history

4:28pm October 27, 2021

by Debbie Elliott

Marvin Weeks memorialized Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was killed in Georgia last year, in a mural. Weeks' latest work delves into the history of race relations in Brunswick, Ga.

In September 1971, prisoners at Attica prison in update New York revolted in protest of inhumane living conditions.

Arts

How the Attica prison uprising started — and why it still resonates today

3:11pm October 27, 2021

by Dave Davies

A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy.

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Hair salons have been a safe space for Black women for decades, even through COVID

5:13pm October 26, 2021

by Taylor Jennings-Brown

Hair salons have long been a safe space for Black women. And that doesn't seem to have changed despite all the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Montgomery, Ala., drops Confederate street name to honor famed civil rights attorney

5:05pm October 26, 2021

by Kyle Gassiott

Despite a threat from Alabama's attorney general, Jefferson Davis Avenue in Montgomery will be no more. The street once named for the Confederate figure will now honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray.

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Claudette Colvin did the same.

National

Arrested for refusing to give up bus seat in 1955, she's fighting to clear her record

3:38pm October 26, 2021

by The Associated Press

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same.

Demonstrators have gathered outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. as the trial of the three men accused of the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery gets underway.

National

What is the citizen's arrest law at the heart of the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death?

10:52am October 26, 2021

by Ashish Valentine

Law professor Joseph Margulies explains how the now-repealed Georgia statute came about — and how its interpretation could decide the fate of the three men accused of Arbery's murder.

Is there still hope for HBCUs as negotiations continue over Democrat's spending bill?

4:59pm October 25, 2021

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Lodriguez Murray, United Negro College Fund senior vice president, on recent protests over student housing at HBCUs and where President Biden's pledge to HBCUs stands.

National

Where We Come From: What's in a name?

4:43pm October 25, 2021

by Anjuli Sastry

Author Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Tiffany Aliche talk about changing their given Nigerian names to more American ones in order to assimilate, and what their given versus chosen names mean to them today.

Barbados elects its 1st president in a step towards shedding its colonial past

4:43pm October 25, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Mackie Holder, consulate general of Barbados in New York, about Barbados transitioning to a republic.

Terry Turner, 65, was arrested on Friday. He faces charges in the shooting death of Adil Dghoughi outside of Turner's house in Martindale, Texas.

National

11 days after killing Moroccan man, a Texan is arrested on a murder warrant

2:23pm October 23, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Sheriff's deputies arrested Terry Turner on a warrant accusing him of murdering Adil Dghoughi outside of Turner's house in Martindale, Texas. Turner spent less than two hours in custody.