Race

Issa Rae stars in the new HBO series Insecure.

Arts

At TV Press Tour, Actors And Producers Of Color Speak Of Hollywood Struggles

2:30pm August 02, 2016

by Eric Deggans

More faces of color are turning up on TV, but at this year's Television Critics Association summer press tour, actors and producers spoke out about how hard it still is to get a foot in the door.

Stevedore Crawford Jr., 53, shouts at police officers during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Politics & Government

Black Lives, Blue Lives: Political Conventions Reveal A Country Deeply Divided

12:16pm August 01, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

The rhetoric on the stage was dramatized by interactions between protesters and police on the streets.

Donald Trump Campaign To Focus On Black Voter Outreach

9:06am July 31, 2016

Donald Trump is unpopular with black voters, but Omarosa Manigault is trying to change that. NPR's Elise Hu speaks with Manigault, Trump's director of African-American outreach.

'Picturing Children' Documents African-American Childhoods

5:01pm July 30, 2016

The National Museum of African American History and Culture's founding director Lonnie Bunch talks about a new book that features photos from the museum's collection. The museum opens in September.

Author Walter Mosley with his father, Leroy Mosley.

'Easy' Writer: Walter Mosley's Passion For Bringing Black LA Stories To Life

4:50pm July 29, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

In Charcoal Joe, Mosley brings his iconic private eye Easy Rawlins into the haze of the late '60s, extending a literary odyssey through the transformation of black Los Angeles.

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Politics & Government

Federal Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law

1:12pm July 29, 2016

by Sean Bueter and Associated Press

A federal appeals court has found that a North Carolina voter ID law was enacted "with discriminatory intent" and has been blocked.

Politics & Government

Is Trump's Call For 'Law And Order' A Coded Racial Message?

7:35pm July 28, 2016

by Geoff Nunberg

Donald Trump's promise to be the "law-and-order" candidate revived a slogan often associated with Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Linguist Geoff Nunberg discusses the term's racial underpinings

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Books

Walter Mosley On The Stories Of LA Told Through Easy Rawlins

5:16am July 28, 2016

In 1990, Walter Mosley first told the story of black postwar LA through Easy Rawlins, an Army vet turned private eye. It became Mosley's best-known series. He discusses Easy's creation and journey.

Black Leadership In The Age Of Obama: A Look Back

4:07pm July 27, 2016

PBS NewsHour co-anchor Gwen Ifill joins All Things Considered from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, to discuss her 2009 book The Breakthrough. Ifill is re-examining the book's conclusions about black political leadership as President Obama prepares to leave office.

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Boxer Claressa Shields, shown here in November 2015, wants to follow in Muhammad Ali's footsteps.

For Olympic Boxer Claressa Shields, Round 2 Brings New Expectations

4:07pm July 27, 2016

by Sue Jaye Johnson

At 17, boxer Claressa Shields won gold in the 2012 London Olympics. But it didn't change her life as much as she thought it would. After she returned home to Flint, Michigan, she thought: Now what?

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