Race

Daniel Foose Returns From Family's Former Slave Plantation With New Album Material

9:28am November 26, 2016

Foose is a jazz bass player and composer living in New York. His great-great-great grandfather was a slave owner, and Foose went back to the old plantation to exorcise some ghosts.

Homeland Security officers walk outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C. Jury selection in the case will resume Monday.

Dylann Roof Declared Competent To Stand Trial In S.C. Church Killings

10:56am November 25, 2016

by Laura Wagner

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel announced his ruling after a two-day competency hearing that was closed to the public. The 22-year-old Roof is facing 33 federal hate crime charges.

Family tensions can bubble to the surface during the holidays, especially after a divisive election.

This Thanksgiving, Looking Forward To A Respite From The Hydrant Of Terribleness

8:57am November 24, 2016

by Gene Demby

Here's hoping that the holiday provides the rare oasis from a year full of rancor and racial strife in our politics.

Tenzin Dorjee, one of the owners of the Himalaya Restaurant in Plattsburgh, N.Y., was repeatedly harassed in the days after the presidential election.

Support Pours In For N.Y. Immigrant After Post-Election Harassment

4:46am November 24, 2016

by Zach Hirsch

Bhutan-born Tenzin Dorjee has experienced an uptick in racial slurs recently in the rural, upstate town he has lived in for years. Now, his community is rallying behind him, publicly and powerfully.

A "beware racism" placard seen in New York's Grand Central Station. Is that racist?

Is It Racist To Call Someone 'Racist'?

7:52pm November 23, 2016

by Gene Demby

Casting racism as a moral failure has had the bizarre consequence of confounding the issue for many Americans. Can anything be called racist without controversy?

Tonya Stands recovers from being pepper sprayed by police after swimming across a creek with other protesters hoping to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, near Cannon Ball, N.D., on November 2.

The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old)

3:41pm November 22, 2016

by Leah Donnella

Many say the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance is beyond anything they've experienced before. But there are preludes in Native American history, and you don't have to look too far back to find them.

Rep. John Lewis views for the first time images and his arrest record for leading a nonviolent sit-in at Nashville's segregated lunch counters in 1963.

In Nashville, Rep. John Lewis Gets Surprise From His Civil Rights Past

9:41am November 22, 2016

by Tony Gonzalez

The Georgia Democrat says he almost cried when he realized his visit to Nashville included an unexpected gift. Leaders presented him with an artifact from his early days of civil rights activism.

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Bradley Opere, student body president at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, is a trailblazer in a blazer.

Kenyan 'Wonk' Breaks Barriers As Student Body Prez At UNC

2:37pm November 21, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

Bradley Opere is the first African to hold the office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Along the way, he's learned a lot about politics, race — and football.

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A Neo Nazi group has declared New Balance the "Official Shoes of White People." (Really. They're serious.)

This Week In Race: Sisterhood, Immigration, And The 'Official Shoe Of White People'

6:36pm November 18, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

What's popping with race this week? Here are few hardy racial matters to chew on as you head into Thanksgiving week.

Some of the indigenous corn varieties growing in Taylor Keen's backyard. Cherokee White is a kind of sweet corn with white, purple, and yellower kernels that is ground for flour. Green Oaxacan is processed to make hominy and corn meal.

Tribes Revive Indigenous Crops, And The Food Traditions That Go With Them

11:26am November 18, 2016

by Grant Gerlock

Members of some Native American tribes are hoping to revive their food and farming traditions by planting the kinds of indigenous crops their ancestors once grew.