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News Articles: Race

Misinformation about abortion targeting Latinas is spreading online.

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  • Health

Doctors and advocates tackle a spike of abortion misinformation – in Spanish

False information targeting the Latino community is surging. Much of it is designed to galvanize voters or discourage pregnant women from seeking care.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
This is one of 194 homes The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority bought this year. The purchase is a first for the agency, which wanted to prevent investors from buying the homes and possibly increasing rent or evicting tenants.

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  • National

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords

A Cincinnati agency says large investors are taking some of the most affordable homes off the market, exacerbating the racial wealth gap. It's now helping its new tenants buy the homes themselves.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Scientists at the site in Tulsa, Okla., will begin excavating by hand, using finer grain tools to clean up the coffins. That will help researchers analyze the construction style and hardware of the caskets in order to determine when they were interred.

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  • Race

21 more unmarked graves are discovered in the Tulsa Race Massacre investigation

Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Danielle Deadwyler stars as Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in <em>Till</em>.

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  • Movie Interviews

Filmmaker says Emmett Till's mother deserves her rightful place in history

Director Chinonye Chukwu tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her murdered son served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

November 01, 2022
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  • Tonya Mosley
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court's conservatives are openly hostile to affirmative action in admissions

If they do what it sounded like they will do, it will end the ability of colleges and universities, public and private, to consider race as one factor in admissions.

November 01, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the use of race in college admissions.

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  • Law

Can race play a role in college admissions? The Supreme Court hears the arguments

The justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents.

October 31, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin campaigns for Republican congressional candidate Yesli Vega at a restaurant in Fredericksburg, Va. Youngkin noted Vega could make history by becoming Virginia's first Latino congressional representative.

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  • Elections

Latino voters weigh abortion rights — and the economy — in a key congressional race

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., is running for reelection in a newly drawn district against Republican Yesli Vega as the national conversation on abortion plays out, especially with Latino voters.

October 31, 2022
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  • Ben Paviour
This combination photo shows Muhammad Aziz, a suspect in the slaying of Malcolm X, after his arrest, in New York, on Feb. 26, 1965, left, and Aziz outside court after his conviction in the killing of Malcolm X was vacated on Nov. 18, 2021, in New York.

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  • Law

The men exonerated in the Malcolm X killing will receive $36 million

The city and state of New York agreed to pay $36 million to two men who were exonerated for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X after wrongful convictions led to both men spending decades behind bars.

October 31, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of Harlem's legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church, died on Friday at home in New York City. He was 73.

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  • Obituaries

The Rev. Calvin Butts left behind a legacy of prayer and political activism

Butts died Friday at home New York of pancreatic cancer. He was 73. The pastor and powerbroker lived a life filled with prayer and political activism.

October 29, 2022
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates

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  • Education

Race in college admissions is back in front of the Supreme Court. Here's what to know

The court will hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

October 29, 2022
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Diagnosed with cancer five years ago, Monica Reed of Knoxville, Tennessee, was left with nearly $10,000 in medical bills she couldn't pay. Medical debt is more prevalent among the Black community in Knoxville, than among whites.

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  • Health

Why Black Americans are more likely to be saddled with medical debt

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Noam Levey
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett sits inside the Thomas Theatre in Ashland, Ore.

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  • Arts & Life

NPR reporting on Oregon theater death threats prompt local and national response

NPR broke the news about artistic director Nataki Garrett hiring a private security detail for her personal safety.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Dawsonville, Ga., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.

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  • Elections

Second woman says Ga. Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for abortion

An anonymous woman said Walker was a "hypocrite" for running an anti-abortion campaign after allegedly pressuring her to terminate a pregnancy.

October 27, 2022
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  • Stephen Fowler
Protesters walk away after disrupting a Los Angeles City Council meeting demanding the resignations of council members, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.

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  • National

The Los Angeles City Council censures members involved in racist conversation

The vote to censure the former council president and two current councilmen is the strongest step the council can take to reprimand them for taking part in a recorded meeting laced bigoted comments.

October 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In a new legal filing, three Maryland State Police troopers allege that the state law enforcement agency has a longstanding track record of racial discrimination toward employees of color.

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  • National

Maryland State Police troopers allege racial discrimination in a new lawsuit

The 40-page class-action lawsuit alleges the state's law enforcement agency has a history of engaging in systemic discrimination against its officers of color.

October 26, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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