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News Articles: Race

A new civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by families of the Buffalo Tops mass shooting victims targets a number of social media companies, gun retailers, a body armor manufacturer and the mass shooter's parents. Here, a group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • National

New lawsuit says social media and gun companies played roles in 2022 Buffalo shooting

The lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court argues that several companies, along with the shooter's parents, played roles in the 2022 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.

July 13, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
(L-R) Survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, and Hughes Van Ellis sing together at the conclusion of a rally during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 2021.

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  • Race

Ruling raises another hurdle for Tulsa Race Massacre victims seeking reparations

Over 100 years ago, one of the deadliest race riots in American history destroyed the prosperous neighborhood of Greenwood, in Tulsa, Okla. Will victims ever get justice?

July 10, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium Aug. 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars.

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  • Sports

The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new rules are part of its legacy

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back."

July 10, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Davies
GPB  NPR

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  • Race

A set of hearings about missing and murdered Indigenous people is about to wrap up

A federal commission to reduce the number of missing persons in Indian Country is wrapping up hearings across the country. The U.S. Department of Justice is committing new resources.

July 10, 2023
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By:
  • Jeanette DeDios
In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla.

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  • Race

Oklahoma judge throws out a suit seeking reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre

The decision by Judge Caroline Wall dashes an effort to obtain a measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage that left hundreds of Black residents dead in 1921.

July 09, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Cheryl Dunye's 1996 debut, <em>The Watermelon Woman,</em> is being added to the Criterion Collection. It's a long overdue honor for the filmmaker who shaped how Black LGBTQ+ stories are told.

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  • Movies

Some advice from filmmaker Cheryl Dunye: 'Keep putting yourself out where you belong'

Dunye's 1996 debut, The Watermelon Woman, is being added to the Criterion Collection. It's a long overdue honor for the filmmaker who shaped how Black LGBTQ+ stories are told.

July 08, 2023
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
French President Emmanuel Macron the violent clashes that erupted after a teen was shot dead by police last week have been influenced, at least in part, by violent video games.

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  • World

After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games

Violence has erupted across France after the fatal police shooting of a teen. President Macron has, in part, blamed video games, adding him to the list of leaders who have cited the debunked theory.

July 07, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
GPB  NPR

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  • National

Colorado's new alert system is helping to locate missing Indigenous people

The system is meant to alert the public when someone from the Indigenous community goes missing, but advocates are frustrated by delays in getting alerts out. (Story aired on ATC on July 3, 2023.

July 07, 2023
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  • Matt Bloom
People protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.

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  • Race

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color. Here's how

Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.

July 03, 2023
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By:
  • Sandhya Dirks
A man walks by a burning car during clashes with police in Le Port on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on Friday over the fatal shooting by police of a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb.

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  • Europe

France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager. Here's why

More than 400 arrests were made in a fifth night of rioting around the country. Nahel M.'s killing is a rallying call, similar to how George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis sparked intense protests.

July 01, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A crowd gathers in front of the Ibn Badis mosque where mourners gathered to pay respects Saturday in Nanterre, France.

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  • Europe

Hundreds gather to mourn Nahel M., a teenager whose death sparked protests in France

Hundreds gathered in the suburb of Nanterre to pay their final respects to Nahel M., a 17-year-old teenager who was fatally shot by police after being stopped for a traffic violation.

July 01, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
Dutch King Willem-Alexander lays a wreath at the slavery monument Saturday after apologizing for the royal house's role in slavery in a speech greeted by cheers and whoop.

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  • Europe

Dutch king apologizes for the monarchy's role in global slave trade

"I make this apology myself. And I feel the weight of the words in my heart and my soul," King Willem-Alexander said at a ceremony marking 160 years since the end of slavery in the Netherlands.

July 01, 2023
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Protesters for and against affirmative action demonstrate on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional.

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  • Law

With affirmative action gutted for college, race-conscious work programs may be next

With the Supreme Court having ruled against affirmative action policies in higher education, some legal experts worry about the future of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

June 30, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Moore
Activists protested what would be the country's largest lithium mine outside federal court in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday.

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  • Environment

Western tribes' last-ditch effort to stall a large lithium mine in Nevada

Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.

June 29, 2023
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
GPB  NPR

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  • Law

Supreme Court finds Harvard, UNC affirmative action programs violate 14th Amendment

The decision reversed decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

June 29, 2023
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Nina Totenberg
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