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Gabby Rivera speaks at Design Salon: Radical Craft at the TED World Theater, November 8, 2018, New York, NY. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED

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Gabby Rivera: Writing the story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

9:44am September 09, 2022

In Marvel's "America," Gabby Rivera wrote a superhero who's queer, Latina, and punches portals across dimensions. She shares why it's empowering to write characters that mirror her identity.

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A person walks down a street in Philadelphia, Pa.

National

A quarter of U.S. adults fear being attacked in their neighborhood, a poll finds

5:04am September 08, 2022

by Alana Wise

Americans of color were more likely than their white counterparts to say they feared being physically attacked, the NPR/Harvard study shows.

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After a hospital stay, many patients are surveyed to weigh in on how good their experience was. Survey results can affect how much hospitals get paid. But instances of racial or other discrimination are not covered in the surveys.

Health & Safety

Patient satisfaction surveys fail to track how well hospitals treat people of color

5:01am September 08, 2022

by Rae Ellen Bichell

The health care industry is obsessed with consumer satisfaction. But national patient surveys still don't get at an important question: Are hospitals delivering culturally competent care?

A municipal police officer holds a no-touch forehead thermometer at a checkpoint amid increased restrictions on residents' movements in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, May 11, 2020.

Health & Safety

Forehead thermometer readings may not be as accurate for Black patients, study finds

3:04am September 08, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Forehead thermometers were significantly less likely to have accurate readings for Black patients compared to oral thermometers. There could be two reasons for this.

Archie Panjabi at the Emmy Awards in 2010. Panjabi, a non-Muslim actress, played a Muslim character in the 2018 British limited series Next of Kin, a show discussed in a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

There are barely any Muslims on popular TV series, a new study says

1:17pm September 07, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

When Muslims do appear, they tend to be violent Middle Eastern men, a new study has found after surveying 200 popular series from the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere.

U.S. deputy marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960.

Arts

Ruby was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learned

5:00am September 07, 2022

In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Now she shares the lessons she learned with future generations.

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Ismael Cruz Córdova as Elven warrior Arondir in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Arts

Despite racist vitriol, 'Rings of Power' star Ismael Cruz Córdova is not backing down

3:04pm September 06, 2022

by Pablo Valdivia

As the The Rings of Power deals with a racist review-bombing campaign, Córdova reflects on the impact his inclusion in the series has for other marginalized people.

In Vesper, Raffiella Chapman plays a 13-year-old girl living in a future where biological experiments have wiped out all the earth's edible plants.

You'll want these five films on your list for fall

2:18pm September 06, 2022

by Bob Mondello

After a two-year dry spell, Hollywood's summer blockbusters finally busted some blocks this year. Now, the question is how to keep that momentum going.

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Ruby Bridges on turning her experience of desegregating a school into a kids' book

4:23pm September 05, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the activist Ruby Bridges about her new book I Am Ruby Bridges, which tells her story through her six-year-old eyes.

President Joe Biden argued that Donald Trump's supporters pose a threat to U.S. democracy during an address billed as the "battle for the soul of the nation" at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Thursday.

National

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

1:21pm September 04, 2022

by Sandhya Dirks

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

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