Race

Some Christians want to make amends for the church's treatment of Indigenous people

4:16pm October 05, 2023

by Jason DeRose

Several Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.

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MacArthur Fellow E. Tendayi Achiume on the intersection of climate and racial justice

5:27pm October 04, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with law professor E. Tendayi Achiume about receiving the MacArthur Fellowship and her research on racial injustice.

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A new law in Texas, the Crown Act, prohibits race-based hair discrimination

7:12pm October 03, 2023

by Kailey Hunt

A new Texas law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination has inspired one woman to try to give back to Black and minority communities across the country.

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Amazon and contractors sued over nooses found at Connecticut construction site

5:00am October 03, 2023

by Juliana Kim

A group of Black and Hispanic employees accuse Amazon and two contractors of failing to implement measures that could have stopped the harassment after several nooses were found.

Howard University receives a replacement for Hattie McDaniel's missing Oscar

5:23pm October 02, 2023

by Marc Rivers

Hattie McDaniel's Oscar went missing from Howard University decades ago. Howard celebrated McDaniel's legacy Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the missing plaque.

A podcast explores the complexities of mixed-race identities

10:34am October 01, 2023

by Anita Rao

The number of Americans who identify with being mixed-race is on the rise. Embodied, a podcast from North Carolina Public Radio, looks at the complications of that identity.

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Crown Act inspires the creation of a directory of Black-owned hair care businesses

8:10am September 29, 2023

by Kailey Hunt

A new Texas law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination has inspired one woman to try to give back to Black and minority communities across the country.

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Tuskegee Veterans Affairs hospital, the first to treat Black veterans, turns 100

4:41pm September 28, 2023

by Debbie Elliott

Marking the centennial of the first Veterans Affairs hospital established to treat Black veterans, who protested after being denied equitable health care upon returning from WWI.

Black leader and activist continue to push for student debt cancelation

4:41pm September 28, 2023

by Cory Turner

Though the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Biden's plan for broad-based student loan relief, Black political leaders and activists continue their fight for debt cancelation.

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California could become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste

5:16am September 28, 2023

by Sandhya Dirks

A bill in California awaiting the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom would ban caste discrimination in the state. But the legislation has revealed deep divisions in the South Asian community.