Race

National

The Slants: Fighting For The Right To Rock A Racial Slur

3:04am January 20, 2017

by Kat Chow

The Asian-American band's case, inextricably linked to the battle over a certain NFL team, leaves some activists torn. While inclined to stand with a fellow advocate, they wonder: At what cost?

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National

Asian Americans Divided Over Band's Trademark Battle

7:25pm January 19, 2017

by Kat Chow

The Slants want to register its name, arguing they are reappropriating a slur against Asians. But some Asian Americans are conflicted about whether it is worth opening trademark law to disparagement.

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Then-Senator Barack Obama speaks as rain falls during a rally at Widener University in Chester, Penn. in October 2008.

Politics & Government

Looking Back With Gratitude On Obama, And His Optimistic Vision Of America

1:26pm January 18, 2017

by Mat Johnson

Writer Mat Johnson reflects on what the Obama presidency meant to his biracial family. "I didn't always agree with Obama," he says. "But I always respected — and will always respect — that man."

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Thousands Celebrate MLK Day At MLK's Home Church

6:38pm January 16, 2017

by Elly Yu

The church Martin Luther King Junior was baptized in as a child and where he served as minister holds a special significance — especially on MLK Day.

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The Role Race Played In The Obama Presidency

6:38pm January 16, 2017

President Obama leaves office with successes in healing America's racial divide as well as work left undone. NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji explains the complicated landscape he had to navigate.

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How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By 'Individual Choices'

1:59pm January 16, 2017

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says school segregation will continue to exist in America "as long as individual parents continue to make choices that only benefit their own children."

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A Cuban migrant bound for the U.S. by way of Central America rests in a shelter in Costa Rica in November 2015. Until President Barack Obama ended the so-called "wet foot, dry foot" policy on Thursday, Cubans who reached U.S. soil either by sea or land we

End Of 'Wet Foot, Dry Foot' Means Cubans Can Join Ranks Of Undocumented

8:15am January 15, 2017

by Adrian Florido

Unlike other migrants who arrive on American soil without visas, Cubans once had a unique place in U.S. immigration policy. Not anymore.

'Peace Ball' Takes Different Approach To Inauguration Festivities

8:02am January 15, 2017

Washington, D.C. community activist and restaurateur Andy Shallal talks about organizing the alternative inaugural ball, to be held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Are Americans becoming less racist? Are children more accepting than their parents? Will racism ever die away?

Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

7:07am January 14, 2017

by Leah Donnella

Do people still believe the age-old notion that the next generation will deliver us from racism? Code Switch asked young and old(er). They rarely agreed on the answer.

National

Obama Declares Site Of 1963 Church Bombing A National Monument

7:33am January 13, 2017

by Andrew Yeager

President Obama has designated three new national monuments related to civil rights, including the church in Birmingham, Ala. where four black girls were killed in a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing.

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