Stand Your Ground Laws Complicate Matters For Black Gun Owners
Harvard historian Caroline Light grew up with guns. Her family lived in Southwestern Virginia, and her parents regularly enjoyed hunting and shooting skeet (clay targets). They used guns on a...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Best Picture, Worst Picture, Picturing Trump's America
Let's start with Sunday night, because, how could we not? You already know about the Moonlight cock-up (leave it to the British to give us a perfect word for what that was), but did you know this:...
View ArticlePoll Finds 3 Women Of Color As New Face Of Feminism
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: If you asked someone 20 years ago to name a well-known feminist, they might have said Susan B. Anthony or Gloria Steinem or Lily Tomlin. In a...
View ArticleOn Fashion Runways, Inclusion Is About More Than Color
Designers are rolling out their spring lines and the runways are looking more diverse than ever. But the comparative abundance of models who are people of color didn't happen overnight. There was the...
View ArticleShows With Black Characters Find Loyal Non-Black Fans
Give up. You will never, ever catch up with every new TV show that's out there. There's a reason for that, says Melanie McFarland, television critic for Salon: "There were more than 450 new shows that...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: ICE Sends Chills Across U.S., Kaepernick, Others, Write...
Oh people: it's been one of those weeks again. The focus on immigration continues, as the government promises to punish sanctuary cities and cities that have chosen not to do ICE's work for it by...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: A Spicy Dust-Up, Muslim Latinas Speak Out, Blue Men See Red
Busy week, per always: resistance to deportations, Spicy being spicy at the White House, and Muslim Latinas. Yeah, really. The upswing in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to identify...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Pepsi Challenged; Appropriation Nation; Black Twitter...
A new study from Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab says giving driver's licenses to people who have entered the country illegally is actually contributing to public safety: licensed drivers...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Guess Who's Not Coming To The White House
The New England Patriots returned to the White House for the now-traditional visit to the president and presentation of a game helmet, jersey and other team-related swag. Correction, some of the...
View Article'It's Not Your Grandfather's LAPD' — And That's A Good Thing
Be honest: You're looking at this story thinking what else is there to add to reports on the 1992 riots that rocked LA , right? NPR has done anniversary retrospectives before, including a huge...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Resegregate, Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty
Fox News has been under fire in the past year for sexual harassment. First Fox chair Roger Ailes, then the network's favorite pundit, Bill O'Reilly, were forced to leave after multiple women complained...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Movies, Memoirs And Fans Who Didn't Hit It Out Of The Park
Not a good week for black folk seeing justice for police violence. Whether you're a 15-year-old honor student (Jordan Edwards) Or a grown man (Alton Sterling) Sometimes, however, the moral arc of the...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Census Worries, Yellowface And Kendall Jenner. Again.
A lot of things in this country rely on information gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years. Congressional districts. Federally funded public works (bridges, tunnels) and emergency services....
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Dave Says Sorry, Coin Controversy, Health Hazards Of...
Oh, Code Switch fam: Has there ever been such a week? Because of the virtual smorgasbord of unfortunate news, you may have skipped putting these on your plate. Dig in. Keep a chaser of Pepto handy. In...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Jesuits Give Back, Serena's New Gig, Latino Grads Hat Up
Tennis queen Serena Williams is serious about trying new things this year. In addition to becoming engaged and being pregnant, La Serena has taken on the challenge of helping to diversify Silicon...
View ArticleRemembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100
In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Hers was a Pulitzer in poetry, specifically for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of an...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Art Angst, A Chess Champ, Ramadan Feasts
Can white artists understand the racial traumas people of color undergo in America enough to apply them to their work? Creating art about cultures other than your own — especially of populations that...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Cosby Trial Begins; No Trump Jokes For Kevin Hart
This week in race: Bill Maher crosses a line; Kevin Hart takes a pass on President Trump; a Cosby Kid stands up for Dr. Huxtable. Let's get to it. America's Favorite Dad showed up in court, and one of...
View ArticleOctavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story
Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her....
View ArticleWriters Launch #EbonyOwes Twitter Campaign In Demand For Back Pay
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Ebony Magazine has seen a hashtag with its name trending on social media this summer. The hashtag is #EbonyOwes, as in it owes money to...
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