Race

Threats against Palestinian, Muslim and Jewish people has spiked since the war began

6:10pm October 30, 2023

As the war between Hamas and Israel rages on, the diaspora is feeling the pain of discrimination. Advocacy groups in the U.S. report a spike in threats of harassment and violence.

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Josephine Baker (left), Mollie Moon (right) and the newly crowned Miss Beaux Arts Ball, 1960.

How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund the civil rights movement

3:12pm October 30, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Historian Tanisha Ford tells the story of the Harlem activist credited with raising millions to build economic and racial equality in the U.S. Ford's new book is Our Secret Society.

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A crowd swarms the airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan in southern Russia, on Sunday night.

Hundreds stormed an airport in Russia's Dagestan, looking for passengers from Israel

12:15pm October 30, 2023

by Emily Olson

Videos posted to social media showed crowds shouting anti-Semitic phrases as they swarmed the tarmac, going plane-to-plane in a search for passengers arriving from Tel Aviv.

Lily Gladstone, left, plays Mollie Kyle in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, right.

'You talkin' to me?' How Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' gets in your head

5:00am October 30, 2023

by Aisha Harris

In his elder years, Martin Scorsese seems to be questioning his complicity as a filmmaker. He's not renouncing his prior artistic choices but he's cognizant of how the world around him has shifted.

Churches step in after Florida restricts how Black history can be taught

8:02am October 28, 2023

by Danielle Prieur

Black churches in Florida are offering classes in African American history in response to limits on the subject in its public schools. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on October 24, 2023.)

Hasan Minhaj at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on June 3, 2019 in New York City.

Arts

'The New Yorker' fact-checked Hasan Minhaj — now he's issued a rebuttal

12:39pm October 27, 2023

by Eric Deggans

The New Yorker's profile of Minhaj said he exaggerated or made up stories for effect in his comedy specials. Here's how the comic responded in a 21-minute video.

Foundry workers at an undisclosed location begin the long process of disassembling and melting down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The statue was a focal point of deadly riots in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017.

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Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art

3:00pm October 26, 2023

by Debbie Elliott

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

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A new graduate jumps into the classroom to teach.

This teacher shortage solution has gone viral. But does it work?

5:00am October 26, 2023

by Kavitha Cardoza

State and federal governments have made hundreds of millions of dollars available to pay for Grow Your Own teacher programs. But researchers say it's unclear whether they actually work.

The Alexandria Police Department in Virginia says it's investigating a display of a pig wearing an "I Can't Breathe" shirt inside one of its police cruisers. The video, posted to YouTube, shows the discovery of the police cruiser and the materials inside.

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Va. police investigate after pig mask, 'I Can't Breathe' shirt found in police car

5:00am October 25, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The three words "I Can't Breathe" refer to what some police brutality victims, like George Floyd, Eric Garner and Manuel Ellis, said before their untimely deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

Books
Arts

'Let Us Descend' follows a slave on a painful journey — finding some hope on the way

10:27am October 24, 2023

by Gabino Iglesias

Jesmyn Ward's narrative forces readers to look at our country's ugly past and face the lingering effects of history — but it also tells a story of perseverance and the power of the spiritual world.