Race

Black Americans Reflect On Patriotism, July 4th Holiday Amid National Racial Unrest

5:41am July 02, 2020

by Juana Summers

The U.S. is experiencing a reckoning over the fact that the promises of America are not fulfilled equally. Black Americans share how they experience patriotism ahead of the July Fourth celebration.

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Seattle Police Forcibly Clear Protest Zone

5:41am July 02, 2020

by Martin Kaste

Seattle officials swept through the area known as CHOP, ending a police-free zone born from protests over racial injustice. Recent shootings and other crimes added to its growing list of detractors.

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Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, here in July 2019, tells NPR the popular neighborhood app is taking steps to address reports of racial profiling and censorship on the platform.

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It's 'Our Fault': Nextdoor CEO Takes Blame For Deleting Of Black Lives Matter Posts

11:38pm July 01, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

In an exclusive interview with NPR, Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar outlines new measures the popular neighborhood app is taking to address reports of racial profiling and censorship on the platform.

Boston officials have decided to remove the sculpture Emancipation Monument which has stood in Park Square since 1879. It depicts a formerly enslaved man kneeling before Abraham Lincoln.

Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet

10:12pm July 01, 2020

by Cristela Guerra

Emancipation Memorial has stood in Park Square since 1879. It is a version of the original, in Washington, D.C., which was funded by formerly enslaved people but designed without their input.

Pastor Jay Wolf leads a prayer service at First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2019. He says he has "no idea" how many African Americans are in his congregation. "We are the body of Christ, and we need Jesus, and that's all I need to know," he says.

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

8:33pm July 01, 2020

by Tom Gjelten

Beginning in the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, elements of racist ideology have long existed in white churches. How Christians could promote such views is a point that upsets many people.

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Tourists visit Mount Rushmore National Monument on Wednesday. President Trump is expected to visit the federal monument in South Dakota and give a speech before a fireworks display on Friday.

Mount Rushmore Fireworks Revival To Feature Trump But No Social Distancing

7:07pm July 01, 2020

by David Welna

Environmental dangers, including wildfires and groundwater poisoning, ended the Rushmore pyrotechnics a decade ago. Now they're back, defying a pandemic and protests.

Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, outside the White House in Washington, D.C., last week.

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Homeland Security Says It Will Secure Historic Landmarks From 'Anarchists'

5:49pm July 01, 2020

by Scott Neuman

The federal agency charged with preventing terrorist attacks said Wednesday that its personnel would carry out President Trump's orders to protect statues and monuments from vandalism.

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Richmond Mayor Says He Wants City-Owned Confederate Monuments Removed Immediately

4:33pm July 01, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney about his resolution to remove city-owned Confederate monuments immediately.

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Civil Rights Advocate Myrlie Evers-Williams On The Change Of Mississippi Flag

4:33pm July 01, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers who was assassinated in their home state of Mississippi, about the state removing the Confederate insignia from its flag.

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Boston To Remove A Copy Of Thomas Ball's 1876 Emancipation Memorial

4:18pm July 01, 2020

by Cristela Guerra (WBUR)

After listening to the opinions of residents and experts on Black history, Boston officials said that the city would remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave kneeling beside him.