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News Articles: Race

Apolonia Plácido in the backyard of the CAMI Nellys Palomo. She is a Mixteco leader from the Mountain of Guerrero, president and one of the founders of the CAMI San Luis Acatlán.

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  • Latin America

These Indigenous Mexican women are reclaiming their power through ancestral practices

Photographer Tania Barrientos shares the stories of midwives and leaders at Indigenous women's centers called CAMIs in Costa Chica de Guerrero, a coastal region in southwest México.

October 15, 2023
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By:
  • Tania Barrientos and
  • Estefania Mitre
Regina (the author) shortly after she got a bachelor's degree in physics. Regina, her sister Maili, and Maili's future husband Max are standing next to a Klingon to the right and a Ferengi the left.

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  • Arts & Life

Finding your place in the galaxy with the help of Star Trek

I don't remember a time when I didn't love Star Trek. This show, and my father who introduced me to it, built the foundation for my sense of social justice as an astrophysicist of color.

October 14, 2023
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By:
  • Regina G. Barber
Indigenous women sit on a bench at a polling place in Sydney as Australians cast their final votes in the referendum to create an Indigenous advocacy committee to Parliament.

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  • World

Australia votes against creating an Indigenous panel to advise Parliament

Advocates for constitutional change in Australia said they were devastated by the defeat of a referendum that would have created a committee to offer advice on policies that affect Indigenous people.

October 14, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Quan Millz is out to make a buck, one street lit book at a time

His writing is meant to flip you out and put some cash in his pocket.

October 13, 2023
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Gladys Maull lives in the rural community of Hicks Hill, Ala. on land that's been in her family for generations. The on-site septic system is collapsing, and she can't afford a new one.

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  • Race

Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's a right'

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.

October 13, 2023
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
Darryl George will be sent to an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for "failure to comply" with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the Barbers Hill High School principal said in a letter.

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  • National

A Black Texas student suspended for his hairstyle is shifted to an alternative school

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School, who was suspended for wearing a natural hairstyle, will be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program through Nov. 29.

October 12, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders members Suzette Shaw, left, holding photos of 10 victims, and Margaret Prescod, at podium, join relatives of victims speaking after the sentencing for Lonnie Franklin Jr., a convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," in Los Angeles Superior Court in August 2016.

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  • Race

California creates nation's first 'Ebony Alert' to find missing Black children

The alert system will use electronic highway signs and encourage the use of TV, radio, social media and other platforms to spread information about the missing person.

October 11, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, has died at age 102. He's seen here smiling at a rally commemorating the 100th anniversary of the massacre in June 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.

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  • Race

Hughes Van Ellis, who asked for justice over Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at age 102

"Please do not let me leave this earth without justice," Hughes Van Ellis said in 2021, the centennial of the racist violence that destroyed a thriving community once known as Black Wall Street.

October 10, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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  • Education

Historic federal funding of HBCUs coincides with the rise of state funding shortfalls

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Tony Allen, Delaware State University president and chairman of the Biden administration's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, about the funding shortfall HBCUs have faced.

October 09, 2023
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By:
  • Jason Fuller,
  • Matt Ozug,
  • and 1 more
An Amazon company logo marks the facade of a building in Schoenefeld near Berlin, March 18, 2022.

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  • Business

Amazon and contractors sued over nooses found at Connecticut construction site

A group of Black and Hispanic employees accuse Amazon and two contractors of failing to implement measures that could have stopped the harassment after several nooses were found.

October 03, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Edward Blum, a longtime opponent of affirmative action and founder of the American Alliance for Equal Rights, at the U.S. Supreme Court last year. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled in Blum's favor against a venture capital fund that awards grants to Black female entrepreneurs.

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  • Law

A federal appeals court blocks a grant program for Black female entrepreneurs

The suit was brought by Edward Blum, the man behind the case against Harvard College that led to the Supreme Court dismantling affirmative action in higher education in June.

October 03, 2023
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By:
  • Kristin Wright
GPB News NPR

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  • Race

A podcast explores the complexities of mixed-race identities

The number of Americans who identify with being mixed-race is on the rise. Embodied, a podcast from North Carolina Public Radio, looks at the complications of that identity.

October 01, 2023
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By:
  • Anita Rao
An aerial view of the historic Tuskegee VA hospital campus. It was established in 1923 specifically to treat Black veterans on land donated by nearby Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University.

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  • Race

A century ago, Black WWI vets demanded better care. They got their own VA hospital

This is the centennial of the first Veterans Affairs hospital established to treat Black veterans. It opened in Tuskegee, Ala., after veterans were denied equitable health care after World War I.

September 29, 2023
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
Mayra Herrera, one of the women who gathered to celebrate the International Day of Afro-descendant Women in  Tamiahua, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

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  • Latin America

Women of the Sea: Afro-descendants honor their heritage in Mexico

Through portraits and interviews with activists and artists, Koral Carballo sought out an answer to the question of what it means to be an Afro-Mexican woman today.

September 26, 2023
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By:
  • Koral Carballo
The end section of a balance beam is pictured. The 2022 incident was widely viewed on social media and condemned by many, including U.S. gymnast Simone Biles.

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  • Sports

Irish gymnastics group apologizes after a Black girl was skipped at a medal ceremony

Gymnastics Ireland has apologized for the incident. But the girl's mother says the group hasn't done enough. Video shows an official giving medals to a line of girls except the only Black participant.

September 26, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
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