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Then-Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun talks to a reporter at Yolk restaurant in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011.

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The first Black woman U.S. Senator looks back on her political career in new memoir

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

June 27, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Nia Dumas
Atmosphere at the 4th Annual Black On The Block Juneteenth Festival on June 15, 2025, in Los Angeles.

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  • National

Despite new challenges, Juneteenth event organizers are unbowed

Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. tell NPR how they're feeling this year. And NPR presents a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Taylor Haney
Edith Edmunds, 99, pictured with one of her completed Underground Railroad Code quilts.

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  • National

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Before NPR's Ben Abrams was a journalist, he worked as a chef in Atlanta.

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  • News

How Juneteenth and Black America helped shape U.S. cuisine

Food and cooking play a big role in Juneteenth celebrations. The barbecues and fish fries woven into Black culture helped shape American cuisine.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ben Abrams and
  • Brittney Melton
Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

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  • Race

Remembering Mother Emanuel, 10 years after racist attack on famed Charleston church

Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.

June 18, 2025
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
The NAACP logo is shown during an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 2015. The civil rights group has announced it won't invite President Trump to address its convention, breaking a 116-year tradition of inviting sitting presidents.

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  • Politics

NAACP won't invite Trump to its national convention, breaking a 116-year tradition

President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kristin Wright
Top row (left to right): Ayla Ludwig and her husband, Alia and Donovan Campbell, two hands showing matching tattoos on the ring finger, and Nina and Daniel Solis. Bottom row (left to right): Stacey Manley and his family, Isaiah Schauer and his wife, Craig Wiesner and his husband, Derrick Kikuchi, and Lynnea and David Hutton.

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NPR readers share stories of love and adversity in honor of Loving Day

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research.

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  • National

Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

May 31, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Sahana Kargi tries on the crown she received after competing in the Miss Utah Volunteer pageant in Salt Lake City on Nov. 14, 2024.

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  • Arts & Life

A look at Indian American life highlights communities across the U.S.

Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Kavya Krishna and
  • Emily Bogle
A mural of George Floyd marks the place where he was murdered by Minneapolis police near the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, Tues., May 20, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minn. During the past five years, the intersection, which has come to be known as George Floyd Square, has served as a memorial space for all those who have died at the hands of law enforcement.

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  • Analysis

The world witnessed George Floyd's murder. 5 years later, what has changed?

Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.

May 25, 2025
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  • Michel Martin
From left: Tenor Alexander Taite, baritone Wilford Kelly, mezzo-soprano Samantha Rose Williams, conductor Paul Phillips, composer Adolphus Hailstork and librettist Herbert Martin appear at a 2023 performance with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Symphonic Chorus of <em>A Knee on the Neck</em>, a requiem cantata in honor of George Floyd. The performance marked the West Coast premiere of the piece.

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  • Music Interviews

George Floyd musical tribute poet warns of 'worse' racial tensions five years after the murder

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in Minneapolis.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Loving Day is on June 12. The day commemorates the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage.

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  • Arts & Life

NPR wants to hear from interracial couples to commemorate Loving Day

Loving Day, the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage, is on June 12. NPR wants to hear from people who celebrate this day.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Headstones bearing the names of people killed by law enforcement stand in the "Say Their Names" cemetery, a grassroots art installation created by two University of Pennsylvania students. Located just blocks from the George Floyd Memorial in South Minneapolis, the exhibit honors lives lost and calls for justice. Photographed on Saturday, May 10, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minn.

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  • National

Who George Floyd was — and how systemic racism shaped his life

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Destinee Adams
Painted portrait of Wong Kim Ark in the Asian American Community Heroes Mural, located in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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  • History

Who's eligible for birthright citizenship in America? Find out in this history quiz

Who was Wong Kim Ark and what is the story behind the Supreme Court case United States vs. Wong Kim Ark? Find out here, and listen to a full episode to learn more.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Anya Steinberg and
  • Shajia Abidi
Justin Hopkins (from left), Nathan Granner, David Morgans, Markel Reed and Chaz'men Williams-Ali rehearse a scene for the Detroit Opera's performances of Anthony Davis' opera <em>The Central Park Five </em>on May 10, 16 and 18.

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  • Performing Arts

This opera tells the story of 'The Central Park Five,' Donald Trump's role included

In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

May 13, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
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