Director Chinonye Chukwu on 'Till' and the story of Emmett Till's mother
NPR's Cheryl Thompson speaks with director Chinonye Chukwu about her new film Till.
Race
Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town's fight
In 1970, the murder of a Black man in Oxford, N.C., led ordinary people to take extraordinary action. In a country that still struggles with race, stories like theirs show that the past is not dead.
Homelessness among Latino residents has spiked in San Francisco
Despite measures meant to protect renters during the pandemic, homelessness among Latino residents has spiked in San Francisco.
Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency
The U.S. Mint will begin shipping quarters featuring actress Anna May Wong on Monday. Wong championed the need for more representation and less stereotypical roles for Asian Americans on screen.
The EPA starts a civil rights probe into Mississippi's water woes
The agency said that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.
What can reparations for slavery look like in the United States? One man has ideas
Professor Andrew Delbanco gave this year's annual Jefferson Lecture, titled, "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future," where he addressed reparations for slavery in the U.S.
The GI Bill left behind Black World War II vets. Now there's a move to fix that
Black vets fought overseas but returned home to segregation — which made it harder for them to benefit from the GI Bill. Some in Congress hope to remedy that injustice.
![A new audit of autopsies conducted under David Fowler's tenue "will determine whether independent experts agree or disagree with the [the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's] determination of cause and manner of death, whether such experts believe the OCME's determinations were based on adequate investigations," the panel's said.](https://wfdd-live.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/card/s3/images/story/Maryland-officials-order-the-reinvestigation-of-about-100-deaths-in-police-custody-1130081134-1666256457.jpg?h=d704b1d1&itok=I0v5LtN5)
Maryland officials order the reinvestigation of about 100 deaths in police custody
The review follows an audit of police-involved deaths under the tenure of former Chief Medical Officer David Fowler, who testified that George Floyd's death was caused by heart disease and drug use.
Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American person featured on U.S. currency
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen about Anna May Wong, the pioneering Asian-American actress who's on the latest coin minted for the American Women Quarters Program.
Online platforms radicalized the Buffalo mass shooting suspect, a new report says
The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.