Race

National

Lynching Memorial In Alabama Will Reflect On U.S. History Of Racial Terror

10:21pm April 25, 2018

by Debbie Elliott

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens in Montgomery, Ala., this week and is devoted to the victims of lynching. It reflects on the nation's history of racial terror, from slavery to the more than 4,000 African-Americans lynched between 1877 and 1950.

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Arts

Hank Azaria, Longtime Voice Of 'The Simpsons' Apu, Says He's Willing To Step Aside

4:34pm April 25, 2018

The controversy surrounding The Simpsons character Apu took another turn Tuesday night. Hank Azaria, who has voiced the character from the start, says he's willing to step aside from Apu.

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How America's White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War

1:42pm April 25, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Kathleen Belew says that as America's disparate racist groups came together in the 1970s and '80s, the movement's goal shifted from one of "vigilante activism" to something more wide-reaching.

Books

Kevin Young Examines All Things 'Brown'

7:45am April 25, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Poet Kevin Young's new book is titled Brown. Using everything from elementary school to baseball to R&B music, Young examines race and culture through poems.

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Fair Housing Act Never Fully Enforced, Walter Mondale Says

5:11pm April 22, 2018

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to end racial discrimination in housing, but American cities remain deeply segregated. NPR's Michel Martin looks back with former Vice President Walter Mondale, who co-wrote the bill.

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For Decades, HUD Actively Engaged In Discrimination, Author Says

5:11pm April 22, 2018

Sheryll Cashin, author of the Place, Not Race: A New Vision for Opportunity in America, explains why equal access to housing is so essential for economic progress.

Latinos And Others Find Trump's Offensive Twitter Language Not Unusual

7:42am April 22, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Pilar Marrero, a writer at the Spanish language daily La Opinion in Los Angeles, about President Trump's recent tweets attacking California's sanctuary laws.

Britain's Conservative Party politician Enoch Powell, right, listens to two demonstrators in Canada in April 1968, reading a petition that describes him as a "racist."

An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago. It Still Echoes Today

5:11am April 20, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

Half a century after Enoch Powell delivered the most incendiary political speech in Britain's recent history, his dire vision of race war hasn't come true. But it resonates in British politics today.

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Rashon Nelson (left) and Donte Robinson say they hope their arrest at a Philadelphia Starbucks one week ago helps elicit change and doesn't happen to anyone else. A video of their arrest, viewed 11 million times, has sparked outrage and protest.

National

Men Arrested At Philadelphia Starbucks Speak Out; Police Commissioner Apologizes

6:50pm April 19, 2018

by Amy Held

Commissioner Richard Ross said he was taking responsibility for making the incident "worse," after initially saying officers did nothing wrong.

Walter Leroy Moody, seen in a photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections, targeted the NAACP and the federal court system with bombs in 1989.

National

Alabama Serial Bomber Walter Leroy Moody, 83, To Be Executed Thursday

6:05pm April 19, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Moody killed a federal judge at his home in Alabama and a civil rights attorney at his office in Georgia. He would be the oldest U.S. inmate executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.