Race

Fresh Air Pays Tribute To The 50th Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday

1:43pm March 06, 2015

On March 7, 1965, marchers from Selma, Ala., attempted to cross a bridge to demonstrate in support of voting rights. Selma director Ava DuVernay, John Lewis and J.L. Chestnut reflect on that day.

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Chinese who operated small shops in New Orleans' Chinatown for many decades learned in 1937 that their small city-within-a-city was doomed to make way for a parking lot. Shown in front of one of the shops on Tulane Avenue between Elk Place and Rampart Str

National

The Fascinating Story Of New Orleans' Two Lost Chinatowns

11:58am March 06, 2015

by Kat Chow

Let's rewind the clock 150 years to the end of the Civil War, when Southern planters had to find new laborers.

Spider Martin's most well-known photograph, Two Minute Warning, shows marchers facing a line of state troopers in Selma moments before police beat the protestors on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

National

Photographer Helped Expose Brutality Of Selma's 'Bloody Sunday'

10:40am March 06, 2015

by Andrew Yeager

Some of the most iconic images of marchers being attacked by Alabama state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, were captured by a white photojournalist who stumbled onto the historic events.

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Kathy Van Sluyters (left), Barbara Carr and Colleen Dickinson chat on a recently finished sidewalk across from Wildflower Terrace, a mixed-income apartment building in the Mueller development for people ages 55 and over.

National

A Texas Community Takes On Racial Tensions Once Hidden Under The Surface

9:23am March 06, 2015

by John Burnett

People move to Austin's Mueller neighborhood to become part of a progressive community. But some black residents say they haven't always felt welcome — so Mueller decided to do something about it.

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The biggest gaps overall were in the South.

Study: At 'Rate My Professors,' A Foreign Accent Can Hurt A Teacher's Score

7:21pm March 05, 2015

by Kat Chow

Teachers with Asian-sounding names were given poorer marks, and their accents were the main reason.

A photo of a table tent at the lobby bar of the Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte during CIAA week.

Sports

A 'Black Tax' At Charlotte's Ritz-Carlton?

3:56pm March 05, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Everyone knows people who attend the CIAA basketball tournament have cash to burn. So why did a Charlotte hotel go out of its way to make sure they spent it?

National

Michael Brown's Family Will File Civil Suit Over His Death

1:01pm March 05, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The news comes a day after the Justice Department cleared Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Brown, in a civil rights probe — and gave a scathing appraisal of the Ferguson Police Department.

Ismael Medjdoub grew up in one of Paris' banlieues. He spends up to two hours a day commuting from his home in Tremblay en France to work and to school at the prestigious Sorbonne in Paris.

In France, Young Muslims Often Straddle Two Worlds

10:40am March 05, 2015

by Audie Cornish

An estimated 40 percent of France's 7 million Muslims live in and around Paris, many of them in the poor suburbs. It's hard to escape the banlieues, even for those who work or attend school elsewhere.

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Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton play two estranged parents whose son is murdered during a home invasion in ABC's American Crime.

Arts

'It Is About Truths': John Ridley On His New TV Show, 'American Crime'

10:15am March 05, 2015

by NPR Staff

The drama, about the aftermath of a racially charged home invasion, challenges its many characters' viewpoints. Ridley says he wanted to explore "what happens when those truths start to fall away."

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Young fans of the German national soccer team drink iced tea in July 2010 as they watch the FIFA World Cup semi-final match Germany vs. Spain in an Arabic cafe in Berlin's Neukölln district. The neighborhood has gentrified rapidly in recent years, but ma

In Berlin, Grassroots Efforts Work To Integrate Inner-City Schools

10:11am March 05, 2015

by Esme Nicholson

In parts of the city, racial segregation in schools is often a reality. But small parent-led initiatives — one immigrant-led, one native-led — have been working to change perceptions and enrollment.

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