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Christy Rosales owns a small clothing shop in a Latino market in East Las Vegas, Nev. She worries about the economy and that's why she plans to vote for Donald Trump in 2024.

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  • Politics

Republicans see Latino voters in Nevada as key to retaking the White House in 2024

Former President Donald Trump has pretty sharp rhetoric around immigration. At the same time, he is trying to reach a potentially powerful voting bloc in pivotal swing states: Latinos.

February 13, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His <em>Rhapsody in Blue</em> premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924.

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  • Music News

'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates

On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.

February 12, 2024
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  • Tom Huizenga
Snoop Dogg, left, and Master P seen at the 2017 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in New Orleans.

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  • Business

Snoop Dogg and Master P sue Walmart and Post for trying to sabotage their cereal

The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.

February 09, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Nadine Chapman (left) and Rachel Perić are residents of the Rollingwood subdivision who are working together to publicize and memorialize the Rollingwood Burial Ground for Enslaved People in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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  • National

Their journey to unearth a cemetery for enslaved people led to communitywide interest

Urban development has erased many Black cemeteries around the U.S., but now a movement to find and memorialize them is underway.

February 09, 2024
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza
King speaks at a mass demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 1957, as civil rights leaders called on the U.S. government to put more teeth into the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions.

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  • History

5 MLK speeches you should know. Spoiler: 'I Have a Dream' isn't on the list

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

February 07, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
Writer Naomi Jackson

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  • Race

Naomi Jackson talks about 'losing and finding' her mind

"Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind," Naomi Jackson wrote in an essay for Harper's Magazine. On this episode, Jackson shares her experience with biopolar disorder. She talks about how she's had to decipher what fears stem from her illness and which are backed by the history of racism.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • B.A. Parker,
  • Kumari Devarajan,
  • and 9 more
Rep. Shontel Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, is calling on the FDA to do further investigations into hair straightening products that contain chemicals flagged for health risks.

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  • Your Health

FDA move to ban formaldehyde in hair straighteners called too little, too late

The FDA will soon move to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products. It's more than a decade after research raised alarms about health risks and other worrying chemicals remain in the products.

February 06, 2024
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  • Ronnie Cohen
A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo.

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  • National

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

February 03, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Actors Susan Lawson-Reynolds, Beth Angus, Deborah Ayorinde, and Bethany Antonia in Hallmark's adaptation of Jane Austen's <em>Sense and Sensibility</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Hallmark recasts 'Sense and Sensibility' and debuts other Austen-inspired films

This month, the network debuts Loveuary, a quartet of films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly Black lead cast.

February 01, 2024
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  • Carole V. Bell
Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the <em>Kool Jazz Festival</em>; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers.

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  • Health

The fight over banning menthol cigarettes has a long history steeped in race

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex and divisive issue in the Black community.

February 01, 2024
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  • Yuki Noguchi
Brittni Robertson Powell, with the New Orleans-based bookstore Baldwin & Co. looks through her choice for Black History Month: <em>I Am Ruby Bridges.</em>

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  • Books

6 books to help young readers learn about Black history

Five authors, librarians and book shop owners suggest turning to literature to help teach kids about Black history, culture and themes for this Black History Month.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • Aubri Juhasz,
  • and 1 more
Candles spell out the name of Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil on the anniversary of his death, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

Newly released recordings reveal what officers said after Tyre Nichols' fatal beating

About 21 hours of newly released video and audio are revealing more about what first responders in Memphis, Tenn., did and said the night Nichols was pulled over and mortally injured.

January 31, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Race

An Alabama engineer says a major defense contractor fired him for speaking Hindi

An engineer in Huntsville, Ala. is suing the defense contractor Parsons Corporation for discrimination, arguing he was fired for speaking his native Hindi language at work.

January 29, 2024
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  • Debbie Elliott
Crownsville patients work in the hospital's fields in the 1910s.

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  • Mental Health

What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental health today

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

January 29, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Dr. Uché Blackstock is the author of <em>Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine.</em>

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  • Health Care

Following in her mom's footsteps, a doctor fights to make medicine more inclusive

Dr. Uché Blackstock says that the 2023 SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action will have a long-term, negative impact on both Black doctors and patients. Her book is Legacy.

January 22, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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