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The Catholic Church profited from slavery — 'The 272' explains how

"You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. Her new book tells the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to help save what is now Georgetown University.

June 13, 2023
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is a co-founder of The Ida B. Wells Society. She's pictured above in New York in December 2021.

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  • Arts & Life

Ida B. Wells Society internships mired by funding issues, says Nikole Hannah-Jones

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says administrative delays have made it impossible to carry on with several academic projects intended to foster the careers of young Black investigative journalists.

June 13, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A studio portrait of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers taken in the early 1960s.

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  • History

60 years ago, Medgar Evers became a martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated at his home in Jackson, Miss., by a Ku Klux Klan member. While other leaders pushed for equality across the U.S., Evers focused on his native Mississippi.

June 12, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Ring
The Goodwin family, including Regina Goodwin, in a 1970s photo.

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The Tulsa Race Massacre is recounted through family memories in 'Built from the Fire'

One family, the Goodwins, was forever changed by the attacks in Oklahoma more than a century ago and worked to ensure Tulsa acknowledged the truth about what happened.

June 12, 2023
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By:
  • Reena Advani and
  • Michel Martin
<a href="https://firststrokes.org/" data-key="424">First Strokes</a> is a New York-based organization working to get teens in the water safely — and to try to remove the barriers to learning. Above, a First Strokes class at Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, Conn.

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  • Arts & Life

Many teens don't know how to swim. A grassroots organization is trying to change that

First Strokes, a nonprofit based in New York City, is helping students learn water safety skills and how to swim. They offer free swimming lessons for teens — taught by other teens.

June 09, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

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  • Book Reviews

'The Talk' is an epic portrait of an artist making his way through hardships

Despite its weighty, multi-tiered approach — this is not, on multiple levels, an easy read — Darrin Bell's debut graphic memoir is difficult to put down.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Tahneer Oksman
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Study: Most textbooks don't include key events in U.S. history that involve Latinos

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Viviana López Green, senior director of the racial equity initiative at UnidosUS, about the lack of Latino history in high school textbooks.

June 07, 2023
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Black immigrants to the U.S. are growing in numbers, but they don't feel understood

Tennessee's Black immigrant population is increasing. Many of those immigrants are pushing to raise awareness of their cultures and histories.

June 06, 2023
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  • Leah Donnella
Left: A Tennessee Historical Commission marker honors the site of Greenwood Park, which was the first city park to serve Nashville's Black residents and was established by Preston Taylor in 1905. Right: Learotha Williams is a public historian at Tennessee State University in Nashville.

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  • Race

Black immigrants are growing in numbers, but in the U.S. many often feel invisible

One in five Black Americans are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. But feeling embraced or understood by the U.S. can seem daunting for some, and impossible for others.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Donnella
The silhouette AR-15-style rifle is displayed on signage for the Firearms Unknown Guns & Ammo gun store in Yuma, Ariz., last week.

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  • Health

Gun deaths hit their highest level ever in 2021, with 1 person dead every 11 minutes

A new report released by Johns Hopkins University shows that gun homicides rose 7.6% from 2020, a year that set a previous U.S. record. Firearms are the leading cause of death for those under age 25.

June 06, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman
Navajo citizen Lorenda Long, who attended a federal boarding school as a young girl, is a supporter of students at Riverside Indian School today.

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  • Education

Federal Indian boarding schools still exist, but what's inside may be surprising

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo and
  • Allison Herrera
The lobby of the Academy for Classical Education in Macon.

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  • Education

How racial disparities in discipline can undercut 'school choice'

Charter schools are a pillar of the school choice movement. But when discipline is racially inequitable in a charter school, it calls the meaning of school choice into question.

June 05, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Marie C. Bolden made national headlines when she turned in a flawless performance at a spelling bee in Cleveland. Her competitors included white students from segregated school districts in the South.

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  • National

When she won the first national spelling bee, Marie C. Bolden dealt a blow to racism

Her victory made national news, upending stereotypes about race less than 50 years after the end of slavery. It also sparked racist fury.

June 02, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Edith Kanakaʻole chants in the koa forest of Kīpukapuaulu in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in 1977. She titled the photo "The Growth of Love is the Essence Within the Soul."

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  • National

Edith Kanaka'ole is the first Hawaiian woman to grace a U.S. quarter

"Aunty Edith," as she was known, helped revive the Hawaiian language, hula and chant.

June 02, 2023
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By:
  • Heidi Chang
Foot soldier Paulette Roby stands in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park, one of the sites where students peacefully marched in the Spring of 1963 demanding equal rights.

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  • National

60 years since 'The Children's Crusade' changed Birmingham and the nation

The Birmingham movement in 1963 was a turning point when children joined the struggle for equal rights. The brutal response from white segregationists galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act.

June 02, 2023
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza and
  • Debbie Elliott
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