Race

Bay Area Police Say They're Prepared For Weekend Alt-Right Rallies

6:51am August 25, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

Far-right activists are set to hold 2 rallies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay area is a mecca for free speech and political activism, but for some, the upcoming alt-right rallies go too far.

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Rabbis Boycott Trump After Charlottesville Remarks

6:33pm August 24, 2017

As a result of President Trump's controversial remarks on Charlottesville violence, four rabbinical coalitions will not hold the annual presidential conference call before next month's High Holidays.

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Chants of "White lives matter!" "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!" rang out on Aug. 11 as several hundred white nationalists and supremacists carried torches through the University of Virginia.

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U.N. Panel Urges U.S. Government To Reject Racial Hatred And Violence

6:28pm August 23, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

An anti-racism panel denounced the U.S. response to "horrific events" in Charlottesville, Va. It did not mention President Trump by name but referred to "failure at the highest political level."

The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top."

Sports
Arts

'What Carter Lost' Tells The True Story Of 'Friday Night Lights' Football Rivals

4:35pm August 23, 2017

by David Greene

Carter High School is really an afterthought in Friday Night Lights — the thug-like football team that stole the state title. A new film follows Carter's rise to the top, and its fall from grace.

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The past few weeks have revitalized debates across the country about what role Confederate monuments play in commemorating U.S. history.

What Our Monuments (Don't) Teach Us About Remembering The Past

4:01pm August 23, 2017

A history professor who studies the politics of memory tells us what the United States can learn from how Germans remember their history.

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Adam Hashem and Ali Alaoieh greet customers as they enter Hashem's Market & Roaster, a family-owned business specializing in fresh, imported spices and traditional Turkish coffee.

National

In Michigan, Museum Food Tours Offer Tastes Of Arab Culture

8:00am August 23, 2017

by Martina Guzman

Yalla! Eat walking tours take people into the Arab-American community, where they can talk with business owners about their personal stories and the products they sell.

A carving depicts Confederate Civil war figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis on Stone Mountain in Atlanta.

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Civil Rights Activist Argues To Keep Confederate Monuments

7:40am August 23, 2017

Ailsa Chang talks with Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta and lifelong African-American civil rights activist, who says he does not support the calls to remove Confederate monuments.

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A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed from the University of Texas campus, early Monday morning in Austin.

Confederate Statues Come Down At The University Of Texas

3:29pm August 21, 2017

by Doreen McCallister

President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and three other figures from a main area of campus. The removals should be complete by mid-morning Monday.

Lana Lokteff, pictured, runs an alt-right media company to promote her white nationalist ideologies. But critics say that kind of outspokenness from a growing number of female allies is at odds with how men in the movement view women's roles.

The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'

8:35pm August 20, 2017

Women in the movement have built Internet presences around boosting white nationalist ideologies. But journalist Seyward Darby says that outspokenness is at odds with male white nationalists' ideas.

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For 30 years, Daryl Davis has spent time befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan. He says 200 Klansmen have given up their robes after talking with him.

National

How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes

6:34pm August 20, 2017

by Dwane Brown

One by one, Daryl Davis has befriended KKK members over the past 30 years. The more they got to know the African-American musician, the more they realized the Klan was not for them.

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