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National

Why White Americans Call The Police On Black People In Public Spaces

11:03pm May 15, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Jason Johnson, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and politics editor at The Root about a series of recent incidents of white people calling police on black people in public spaces.

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Arts

Challenging Family Conversations On Mother's Day

7:54am May 13, 2018

We all struggle with how to talk with our family about race and identity. We have advice for parents about these challenging conversations.

Fraternity Culture And Racism

6:10pm May 12, 2018

NPR's Lakshmi Singh reports on recent allegations of racism involving college fraternities. She interviews University of Connecticut sociologist Matthew Hughey, Cal Poly student Leilani Hemmings-Pallay and Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain.

How Black Leaders Unwittingly Contributed To The Era Of Mass Incarceration

4:34pm May 11, 2018

by Terry Gross

In Locking Up Our Own, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr. argues that African-American leaders helped shape policies that harmed black communities. Originally broadcast July 17, 2017.

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A Starbucks Coffee shop in Rawang outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

National

Starbucks: No Purchase Needed To Use The Restroom

3:11pm May 11, 2018

by James Doubek

Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said the company will let everyone use its bathrooms, regardless of whether they buy a drink. It comes after the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia location.

"I just panicked. I just, it was like my heart exploded," Rose Campbell told local WSB TV, after she was pulled from her vehicle and screamed at during an arrest over a traffic stop.

National

Georgia Police Officer Suspended After Screaming Obscenity At Black Woman

2:47pm May 11, 2018

by Bill Chappell

A traffic stop of Rose Campbell north of Atlanta devolved into a white officer screaming an obscenity at the woman and pulling her roughly from her vehicle.

The video shows a white police officer choking a young tuxedo-clad man who is African-American, pushing him against a storefront and then slamming him to the ground outside a North Carolina Waffle House.

National

Police Investigating After Video Shows Officer Choking Black Man In Prom Tux

9:58am May 11, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The cellphone video shot outside a Waffle House in Warsaw, N.C., last week shows the white officer choking and slamming the man to the ground. The 22-year-old had taken his 16-year-old sister to prom.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson faces a lawsuit over his agency's sidelining of a rule that is meant to prevent segregation in areas that receive federal housing funds.

Carson And HUD Are Sued Over Delaying Anti-Segregation Rule

4:52pm May 08, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The federal lawsuit stems from the department's decision to postpone a requirement that recipients of funding study how inclusive their communities are and plan how to overcome historic segregation.

'The Jazz Ambassadors': Cold War Diplomacy And Civil Rights In Conflict

6:11pm May 05, 2018

A new PBS film documents the African-American musicians who spread good will for the U.S. overseas during the war, despite discrimination faced at home. Michel Martin talks to filmmaker Hugo Berkeley.

Sports
Books

Exploring 'The Heritage' Of Black Athletes

8:07am May 05, 2018

In his book The Heritage, Howard Bryant makes the case that black athletes carry a heritage of activism and tells NPR's Scott Simon why some fans have a hard time with that.