Race

People listen to the California reparations task force in Oakland, Calif., at one of its final meetings in May.

Most California voters oppose cash reparations for slavery, poll finds

10:21pm September 11, 2023

by Adrian Florido

A new poll finds a majority of California voters oppose cash payments to the descendants of enslaved African-Americans. The findings highlight the political headwinds facing reparation efforts.

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National

Minneapolis building, nearly lost to arson in George Floyd protests, is being revived

8:08am September 08, 2023

by Matt Sepic

Three years since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the civil unrest that followed, several Black entrepreneurs are revitalizing a historic retail building that was nearly lost to arson.

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Alabama's rejected congressional map dilutes Black voters' political power

5:38pm September 05, 2023

A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama's latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act.

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Education

Why Asian Americans are divided over affirmative action

8:17am September 03, 2023

by Sandhya Dirks

A look at the divide among Asian Americans over affirmative action.

Gymnasts Shilese Jones, Simone Biles and Leanne Wong pose after placing second, first and third in the all-around competition on the final day of women's competition at the 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday in San Jose, Calif.

Women's gymnastics is changing in more ways than one

10:21am September 02, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

What had once been a sport associated largely with white girls is increasingly dominated by women of color. And more elite gymnasts are competing in the NCAA while they go for the gold.

Migrants from majority-Muslim countries were unequally imprisoned in Del Rio, Texas

8:48pm September 01, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district.

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Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix

Fake 'sober homes' targeting Native Americans scam millions from taxpayers

10:48am August 31, 2023

by Alice Fordham

The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge.

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Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

4:59am August 30, 2023

by Evan Erickson

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

In light of the Jacksonville shooting, here's how hate groups have grown in Florida

4:32pm August 29, 2023

by Odette Yousef

During the last year, some organizations have staged increasingly brazen displays of hate in Jacksonville and across Florida.

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National

People who participated in the March on Washington remember it on its 60th anniversary

10:34am August 29, 2023

Monday marks 60 years since the 1963 March on Washington. Some 250,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial, including A. Peter Bailey, Courtland Cox and Edith Lee-Payne.

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