A new restaurant in New York City is catching a lot of heat for marketing itself as "clean Chinese food." San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho talks about why with NPR's Ailsa Chang.
Journalist Charles Lane's account is endlessly gripping — and he does an excellent job of placing the operation in historical context, chronicling racism and resentment in the South post-Civil War.
The Chicago publishing giant that launched Ebony and Jet magazines, and made them a touchstone in African-American life, is closing its doors. It plans a court- supervised sale of its assets.
Latinos with darker skin tones are more likely than those with lighter skin to say they've been discriminated against, according to a new national poll by the Pew Research Center.
Eighty years ago Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial after the African-American performer was denied use of the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
The 2020 Democratic candidate and mayor of a majority-white Indiana city has gone on urban radio and spoke to a major civil rights group and has addressed why he once said "all lives matter."
In his new book, the literary scholar presents an absorbing, necessary look at the "Redemption" era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.
Gates says white supremacy was born in the years after the Civil War, as white Southerners looked for ways to roll back the newly acquired rights of African-Americans. His new book is Stony the Road.
The longtime Obama adviser told NPR's Audie Cornish that former Vice President Joe Biden "got it right" when he said "it's important that men listen" in a wide-ranging interview about her new book.