Race

Here's what happened after California banned affirmative action 25 years ago

5:34pm June 29, 2023

by Adrian Florido

The end of race-conscious admissions means universities will have to find race-neutral alternatives to diversify their student bodies. California, which already has a ban, has faced those challenges.

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The Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action

4:51pm June 29, 2023

Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Harvard law professor Charles Fried about the court's decision.

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Prompted by a visit from his grandfather's ghost, a man reconciled with his family

4:51pm June 29, 2023

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with John Blake, who wrote More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew, about how an apparition of his grandfather led to healing.

Supreme Court finds Harvard, UNC affirmative action programs violate 14th Amendment

11:42am June 29, 2023

The decision reversed decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

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An education law professor on why race should be considered in college applications

11:29am June 29, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Dana Thompson Dorsey of the University of South Florida about the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

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Activists protested what would be the country's largest lithium mine outside federal court in Pasadena, Calif. Tuesday.

Western tribes' last ditch effort to stall a large lithium mine in Nevada

6:13pm June 28, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.

International African American Museum opens where enslaved Africans entered the U.S.

5:26pm June 27, 2023

by Victoria Hansen

The International African American Museum opens Tuesday in Charleston, S.C. It's built on the site of Gadsden's Wharf, where enslaved Africans entered the country.

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State Department's first chief diversity officer is stepping down

5:10am June 27, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who's retiring — more than two years after becoming the State Department's first chief diversity officer.

Presidential campaign talking point: Fort Bragg's name change

9:22am June 26, 2023

by Jay Price

Confederate General Braxton Bragg's name was recently stripped from the nation's largest Army base. The name change has since become a presidential campaign talking point.

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Joe Armstrong, the owner of WJBE 99.7 FM/1040 AM — whose call letters pay tribute to the original WJBE's owner, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown — says the Federal Communications Commission is threatening to revoke his broadcast license over his prior conviction for a tax crime, one that occurred years before he took ownership of the station.

Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'character qualifications' policy

7:01am June 25, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Joe Armstrong, owner of WJBE 99.7 FM, says the FCC is threatening to revoke his broadcast license over his conviction for a tax crime — one that occurred years before he took ownership of the station.