Race

The white clapboard farmhouse where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote many of the books in her Little House on the Prairie novels still stands in Mansfield, Mo.

Books

Little House On The Controversy: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name Removed From Book Award

10:36pm June 25, 2018

by Kat Chow

The Association for Library Service to Children voted unanimously to strike Wilder's name from a major children's lit award over concerns about how the author referred to Native Americans and blacks.

News

Study: Deaths Outnumber Births Among Whites In North Carolina

11:32am June 25, 2018

by Sean Bueter

A new demographic study of the U.S. shows deaths are outpacing births among white people in more than half the country's states, including North Carolina.

How Police Killings Lead To Poor Mental Health In The Black Community

5:29pm June 24, 2018

A recent study published in The Lancet Medical journal shows that police killings of unarmed black men leads to poor mental. NPR's Michel Martin talks with study co-author Dr. Atheendar Venkataramani.

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A Richmond School Board Member On Renaming A School

7:55am June 23, 2018

The Richmond School Board voted to remove the name of a Confederate general from a local elementary school, replacing it with Barack Obama. Board member Kenya Gibson talks with Scott Simon.

Arts

Playing Hanafuda With The Hand You're Dealt

5:00am June 23, 2018

by Will Matsuda

As a fourth-generation Japanese American, photographer Will Matsuda tries to unpack some of the liminal spaces of cultural identity in America. He grew up playing hanafuda, a Japanese card game.

National

Remembering Rev. Ralph David Abernathy 50 Years After Resurrection City Came Down

7:39pm June 22, 2018

by Kat Chow

Fifty years ago this month authorities took down a tent city on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that was part of a protest against poverty. One of the key organizers was the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, a leader of the civil rights movement.

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Police Shootings And Mental Health

5:17am June 22, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A new study finds that police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population.

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NFL Players Pen Op-Ed Calling For Changes To America's Justice System

10:53pm June 21, 2018

by Gene Demby

President Trump called on NFL players to suggest names of incarcerated people who they feel have been treated unfairly. A new op-ed from four NFL players calls for the president to issue a blanket pardon for people serving sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

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Central American asylum seekers, including a Honduran girl, 2, and her mother, are taken into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

National

For Some Japanese Americans, Border Separations Are Déjà Vu

8:47pm June 20, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

The reports from the border this week sent a collective shudder through many Japanese American communities around the country.

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President Trump speaks on immigration issues while meeting with Republican members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House White House.

Politics & Government

Trump Signs Order To End Family Separations

4:13pm June 20, 2018

The order says that while the administration will "rigorously" enforce immigration laws, it is "also the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity ...."