The Meaning Of Meghan: 'Black' And 'Royal' No Longer An Oxymoron In Britain
" England's First Black Princess !" lots of media blared a variety of that this week, immediately after the official announcement of what several tabloids have been speculating about for months: Prince...
View ArticleThe Year In Race: Saying Goodbye
The world lost a lot of notable people this year, and it feels as if they're departing even more quickly as the year runs out. Activist/humanitarian Dick Gregory, actress/singer Della Reese, musicians...
View Article'Rapists,' 'Huts': Trump's Racist Dog Whistles Aren't New
"Same insult, different day." Essentially, that was the reaction of many people of color to news on Thursday that President Trump, in a bipartisan gathering to hammer out an immigration deal, had...
View ArticleAn American Marriage: Redefining The American Love Story
During a fellowship to Harvard, writer Tayari Jones spent months and months studying the intersection of race and criminal justice. She learned a lot about the American criminal justice system. She...
View Article'National Geographic' Looks At Its Archives To Reflect On Coverage Of Race
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: National Geographic magazine brought the world to readers through meticulous reports and gorgeous photographs. Now it's released an issue on...
View ArticleBobby Hutton: The Killing That Catapulted The Black Panthers To Fame
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next we have a bit of hidden history from 50 years ago today. We recall what happened, of course, on April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King...
View ArticleNot Enough Color In American Art Museums
The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum's African art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African-American...
View ArticleFiltering American History Through A 'Brown' Lens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEutjyMB450 Some people read about history; poet Kevin Young actually saw an important part of history each week, when he went to his family's church in Topeka, Kan. The...
View ArticleChallenging Family Conversations On Mother's Day
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Today is Mother's Day, but you don't only have to be a parent for our next conversation. We all struggle with how to talk to our...
View ArticleLoyal Royal Watchers Say Meghan Markle Is Making Princess Diana Proud
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DON GONYEA, HOST: There has been wall-to-wall coverage today as Meghan and Harry tied the knot, so please indulge us for just a bit more coverage of the royal...
View ArticleThe Education Of Bobby Kennedy — On Race
Back in May, 1963, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy invited a select group of black entertainers to meet with him at his father's apartment in New York City. Singer-actor Harry Belafonte was there....
View ArticleAnthony Bourdain: Serving Up Inclusion
Anthony Bourdain is being mourned, of course, by fellow chefs and foodies for his sardonic exposés about what really happens in the kitchens of some of America's best restaurants. And for his travels...
View ArticleFor Some Japanese Americans, Border Separations Are Déjà Vu
Third grade teacher Tony Osumi says he, like a lot of Americans, watched the recent news from the Southern US border with growing dismay. The images and sounds of wailing children being pulled from...
View ArticleWhen Calling The Po-Po Is A No-No
Melissa DePino didn't take the infamous April video that showed two black men being handcuffed and ejected from a Philadelphia Starbucks—but she agreed to post it. "I know these things happen," the...
View ArticleTV Series Examines The Significance Of Trayvon Martin's Death
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has been six years since Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while coming back from a trip to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. Martin...
View ArticleA Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And The Movement It Inspired
Most of us remember the broad outlines of the story: 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was followed, shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., on the night of Feb. 26, 2012....
View ArticlePlay Gives Woman At The Center Of Emmett Till's Murder Case A Voice
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On this day in 1955, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, Emmett Till, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the tiny...
View ArticleBill Cunningham: A Memoir Of Style On All Levels, High And Low
I miss Bill Cunningham. There. I said it. I miss opening the Thursday and Sunday pages of the New York Times and seeing a whole cross-section of humanity, courtesy of Cunningham's photos, that had...
View ArticleLorraine Hansberry: Radiant, Radical — And More Than 'Raisin'
You think you're accomplishing something in life until you realize that at age 29, playwright Lorraine Hansberry had a play produced on Broadway. Not only did she have a play, but her drama , A Raisin...
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