Race

Baseball Players Issue Apologies Over Old Offensive Tweets That Resurfaced

8:20pm July 31, 2018

Three Major League Baseball players had to apologize for racist and homophobic tweets made when they were in high school. Sports publicist Lauren Walsh with NPR's Audie Cornish about accountability for social media posts.

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A mural of Trayvon Martin is seen on the side of a building in the Sandtown neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested on April 30, 2015 in Baltimore.

A Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And The Movement It Inspired

10:54am July 31, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A new television series explores the 2012 killing of the 17-year-old in Sanford, Fla., and the subsequent trial that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

National

Debate Over Confederate Monuments Continues In Court After Their Removal

5:12pm July 30, 2018

by Audie Cornish

A year after the rally in Charlottesville, Va., dozens of Confederate monuments have been removed from different states. NPR went to Memphis, Tenn., to find out what happens after their removal.

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Music & Culture

TV Series Examines The Significance Of Trayvon Martin's Death

8:12am July 30, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A series from the Paramount Network shows how the shooting death of Trayvon Martin six years ago gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, and an examination of Florida's "stand your ground law."

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Why It's Time To Retire The Disparaging Term 'White Trash'

8:12am July 30, 2018

by Leah Donnella

Our Word Watch series explores the term "white trash." Some people embrace it. But experts say it demeans both the people it's applied to and people of color.

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State representatives work in the house chambers at the State House in Montgomery, Ala. A federal appeals court sided with workers from Birmingham, Ala., who argued that state lawmakers racially discriminated against the majority-black city by blocking a

In Battle Pitting Cities Vs. States Over Minimum Wage, Birmingham Scores A Win

10:44pm July 27, 2018

by Yuki Noguchi

A federal appeals court sided with workers from Birmingham, Ala., who argued that state lawmakers racially discriminated against the majority-black city by blocking a 2016 municipal minimum wage hike.

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Roseanne Barr talks with Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity while being interviewed during a taping of his show Thursday in New York. It was the first time she appeared on TV since she was fired from ABC. The network canceled its successful reboot of Ro

Roseanne Barr Tells Fox's Hannity Racist Tweet Was A Big Misunderstanding

7:30am July 27, 2018

by Eric Deggans

The comedian appeared on Fox News pundit Sean Hannity's show Thursday, claiming the backlash over the widely condemned tweet which led to ABC canceling her show was a misunderstanding.

'Unite The Right' Charlottesville Rally Organizer Seeking To Hold Anniversary Event

6:50pm July 24, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Daily Progress reporter Chris Suarez about how the organizer of last year's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., is seeking a court order to allow an event marking its anniversary.

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German Soccer Player Says He Quit National Team Because Of Racism

8:33pm July 23, 2018

by Martin Kaste

One of the stars of German soccer has quit the national team, complaining of racism from both fans and the football association because of his Turkish ancestry.

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Loxie Loring walks with a group of marchers to remember her daughter, Ashley Loring, who went missing from the Blackfeet Reservation more than a year ago.

National

Doctoral Student Compiles Database Of Indigenous Women Who've Gone Missing

8:15am July 21, 2018

by Nate Hegyi

A Southern Cheyenne woman found no solid data on the many indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada who have gone missing or been killed under suspicious circumstances. So she compiled it herself.