Race

'Raya And The Last Dragon' Criticized For Lack Of Southeast Asian Actors

7:43am March 09, 2021

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Hoai-Tran Bui of Slashfilm about Disney billing Raya and the Last Dragon as a Southeast Asian movie, but critics say it uses a lot of East Asian actors.

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Bayard Rustin: An Architect Of The Civil Rights Movement You May Have Never Heard Of

4:11pm March 08, 2021

Bayard Rustin was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement in the '60s you may have never heard of. NPR's podcast Throughline has this profile.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sent potential jurors in Derek Chauvin's trial home on Monday. Here, a painting of Floyd is seen outside the Hennepin County Government Center, where the trial is taking place.

National

George Floyd Case: Jury Selection In Chauvin Trial Delayed Over Murder Charge Appeal

3:37pm March 08, 2021

by Bill Chappell

A pool of potential jurors were in the court building, waiting to start the selection process. But they're being sent home for the day.

National

Pandemic Interferes With Reenactment Of 1965's Bloody Sunday March

7:21am March 08, 2021

by Kyle Gassiott

In Selma, Ala., the reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scaled down because of COVID-19. It was also the first without civil rights icon John Lewis who died last year.

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Edith Arangoitia receives a COVID-19 vaccination in Chelsea, Mass., a heavily Hispanic community, on Feb. 16.

Misinformation And Mistrust Among The Obstacles Latinos Face In Getting Vaccinated

8:33am March 07, 2021

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Vaccination programs work best when as many people as possible get vaccinated, but Latinos are getting inoculated at lower rates. A group that helps immigrant workers is working to change that.

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Books

Author Explores Preacher Father's Silence On Racial Injustice In 1960s Alabama

5:17pm March 06, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist John Archibald about his book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution.

Ifeoma Ozoma is the Founder and Principal of Earthseed.

National

'It Really Is A Gag Order': California May Limit Nondisclosure Agreements

3:48pm March 06, 2021

by Rachael Myrow

Former Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma risked a lawsuit when she made public her allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment. She hopes California will ban contracts like the one she had.

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Politics & Government

Neighbors Help Minneapolis Pharmacist Rebuild Shop After George Floyd Protests

3:37pm March 06, 2021

The George Floyd murder trial begins Monday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with pharmacist Elias Usso, whose neighborhood shop was destroyed by rioters and has now reopened.

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Former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman arrives at the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the US Capitol on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C. Gorman says she was tailed Friday night by a security guard who said she looke

National

'This Is The Reality Of Black Girls': Inauguration Poet Says She Was Tailed By Guard

10:53am March 06, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Amanda Gorman, who became a sensation after her poem at Joe Biden's inauguration, says a security guard told her she looked "suspicious."

Former Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, May 29, 2020. Chauvin faces second and third-degree murder charges as well as one count of second-degree manslaughter.

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Derek Chauvin, Charged With George Floyd's Death, May Face Additional Murder Charge

6:36pm March 05, 2021

by Dustin Jones

The former Minneapolis police officer is to be tried on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter starting next week. A charge of third-degree murder had been dismissed earlier.