Race

Chief Duane Yellow Feather Shepard is an extended member of the Bruce family of Bruce Beach and currently acts as a representative for their interests.

National

A Black family got their beach back — and inspired others to fight against land theft

12:49pm October 10, 2021

The beachfront land — known as Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif. — is being returned to the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce 97 years after it was taken from them.

Sports

Saturday sports: post-season baseball, WNBA finals, Gruden's racial comments

7:58am October 09, 2021

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about baseball, the WNBA and a report about Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden using a racial trope to describe NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith.

Members of the Full Circle Everest team pose for a photo on Mount Rainier earlier this year. Next year, group members hope to become the first all-Black team to reach the top of Mount Everest.

A mountaineering group is aiming to be the 1st all-Black team to climb Mount Everest

7:00am October 09, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

The Full Circle Everest team will be scaling Everest next year in an attempt to make history. But it's not just about the climb. They also want to inspire Black people to explore the outdoors.

People take part in the Women's March ATX rally, Oct. 2, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. The march was a response to a Texas law that bans most abortions.

Federal appeals court temporarily reinstates Texas' 6-week abortion ban

10:06pm October 08, 2021

by Ashley Lopez

After a lower court temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing the ban on abortions six weeks into pregnancy, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed that ban to continue.

Maori politician worries New Zealand's COVID plan is a 'death warrant' for her people

5:18pm October 08, 2021

New Zealand is moving away from a "zero cases" approach to COVID-19. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Maori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer about why she opposes the change.

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, by Andrea Elliott

Books
Arts

'Invisible Child' tells the story of childhood homelessness in America

5:34am October 08, 2021

by Ericka Taylor

While the book is very much the tale of young Dasani Coates, Andrea Elliott uses her story and that of her family to examine the many who find themselves in similarly impossible circumstances.

National

First female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation will be featured on U.S. coin

5:08am October 08, 2021

A daughter and grandson remember Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation. They talk about the challenges she faced. Audio produced for Morning Edition by Barry Gordemer.

Reginald F. Davis, from left, pastor of First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick-and-mortar foundation of one the oldest Bl

The remnants of one of the nation's oldest Black churches have just been found

7:54am October 07, 2021

by The Associated Press

The discovery of the First Baptist Church in Colonial WIlliamsburg comes as the living history museum is reckoning with its storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans.

A Viasat internet satellite dish is seen in the yard of a house in Madison, Va., on March 31.

More than 1 in 3 rural Black southerners lack home internet access, a new study finds

7:11pm October 06, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The research shows that across 152 counties, 38% of Black residents in the rural South have no home internet access, compared to 23% of white residents.

A Virginia Beach, Va., family, subjected to racist harassment, got some relief after neighbors rallied to support them.

National

A neighborhood rally helped to quiet racist noise blaring from a Virginia home

5:51pm October 06, 2021

by Bill Chappell

The police said there was nothing they could do to stop the offensive racket. But after the community held a rally, the cacophony got much quieter.