Race

Mourners left flowers and other mementos in front of Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the days following the June 17, 2015 mass shooting. Nine worshippers were gunned down during Bible study in what authorities say was a racially

National

While Grieving Continues, Church Shooting Was Charleston's Call To Action

10:49am June 07, 2016

by Debbie Elliott

It's been nearly a year since a gunman killed nine worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The attack shocked the community and exposed lingering racial tension.

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Muhammad Ali is remembered as a great athlete and humanitarian — and also as an incisive, defiant black leader. He died Friday at age 74.

National

A Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished By Black Men

5:06pm June 06, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

He was a great athlete and humanitarian. He was also a symbol of defiance for black men around the world.

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Sports

A Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished By Black Men

2:27pm June 06, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Muhammad Ali is being remembered as a great athlete and humanitarian. Black Americans — especially men — are fond of another Ali: the one who spoke truth to power, even at tremendous personal cost.

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Arts

'Roots': Here's What You Said About The Remake

5:19pm June 04, 2016

This week, the History Channel aired its remake of the classic TV series. Listeners Pious Ali, Frank Bonet and Justin Rogers told us what they thought.

Morehouse College freshmen Philip Rucker, Damon Redding and Tyree Stevenson use a programming language called Python to plot a map of weather stations in the United States.

Coding While Black: Hacking The Future Of The Tech Industry

7:36am June 04, 2016

by Tasnim Shamma

Silicon Valley has a diversity problem, with many tech companies employing a tiny number of African-Americans in key jobs. In Atlanta, black techies are working to diversify the industry's future.

Chicago Releases Videos Of Police In Alleged Excessive Force Cases

6:19pm June 03, 2016

by Chris Arnold

The move comes as the city is struggling to regain public trust in its police force in the wake of the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old.

Asian American Groups Target Top Ivy League Schools For Racial Discrimination

7:24pm June 01, 2016

by Kirk Carapezza

A coalition of Asian American groups filed a federal complaint asking for an investigation into Yale, Brown and Dartmouth for alleged racially discriminatory practices in college admissions processes.

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Why is it so hard to talk about whiteness?

The Code Switch Podcast, Episode 1: Can We Talk About Whiteness?

5:06pm May 31, 2016

by Gene Demby

On our inaugural episode, we're digging into how we talk about whiteness — or, really, how we don't talk about it — and hear from some folks who say it's really important that we figure out how.

Benjamin Epstein, director of the Anti-Defamation League, stands to the right of Martin Luther King Jr. in this photo with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson taken on June 22, 1963.

National

Anti-Defamation League Chief Faces Challenge Trying To Renew Civil Rights Activism

7:38am May 31, 2016

by Tom Gjelten

Jewish groups supported the civil rights movement in the 1960s. But for many current civil rights activists, solidarity with Palestinians takes precedence over the old solidarity with American Jews.

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'Roots' Remake: Your Take

5:14pm May 29, 2016

We want to hear your thoughts on the remake of the classic series. Use your phone's voice memo app to record yourself and email the audio to nprcrowdsource@npr.org using the subject line "Roots."