It's a familiar headline: An unarmed black man is shot and killed by police. Community members are upset and demand justice. But this isn't a story that happened last month. It was 70 years ago.
James H. Cone, who was considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, has died at the age of 79. For nearly five decades, the reverend wrote and taught the gospel from the African-American perspective.
A new memorial in Montgomery, Ala., remembers the thousands of African-Americans who were lynched. NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit organization behind the memorial.
What's it like visiting a memorial dedicated to the victims of lynching, knowing that your ancestors owned slaves? NPR's Michel Martin speaks with writer Margaret Wrinkle about how she came to terms with her family's past.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Bro Krift of the Montgomery Advertiser about its editorial board's recent apology to its readers for the newspaper's past coverage of lynchings.
Speaking up — especially about topics that are difficult to discuss — can be scary but necessary. Writer and blogger Luvvie Ajayi feels it's her role to push people outside their comfort zones.
Just 10 percent of Hungarians polled say they feel totally comfortable making friends with an immigrant. In a survey, Hungarians even rejected a group that doesn't exist.
The few, tepid defenses of Bill Cosby during his criminal trial for sexual assault are an illustration of just how much his influence as Black America's emissary to the wider world has waned.