Child Migrants' Harrowing Journey Brought To Life On Stage
Many of the kids who left Central America for the U.S. two years ago are still waiting to see if they'll be granted asylum. Tens of thousands came on foot, escaping gang violence, hoping if they got...
View ArticleA Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR-8_odGh4 In the Facebook Live video streamed earlier this month by Diamond Reynolds after her fiance, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer during a...
View ArticleEpisode 13: Struggling School, Or Sanctuary?
Kids are headed back to school, and this year, a couple hundred thousand K-12 students will be walking unfamiliar halls because their previous public school closed, according to data from the National...
View ArticlePaying Homage To The Female Athletes Who Blazed The Way In Sports
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to hear about another kind of big break. There's a new book out that puts a spotlight on the long-forgotten stories of...
View ArticleAs Los Angeles Burned, The Border Patrol Swooped In
Looking back at the 1992 Los Angeles riots, people often remember tensions between African-Americans, white law enforcement officers and Korean small business owners. That story gets even more...
View ArticleWho Put The 'Hispanic' In Hispanic Heritage Month?
Hispanic Heritage Month is a nationally recognized, not-quite-a-month. (It's the back half of September and the front half of October). That, according to the government's website , is because Sept. 15...
View ArticleMore Than Half Of Latinos Surveyed Say Applying To College Wasn't Discussed...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: More than half of Latinos in the U.S. say applying to college was never discussed with them. This is according to a new survey that NPR...
View Article2 Sisters In Los Angeles Are DREAMers But Only 1 Is Covered By DACA
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Congress has yet to come up with a compromise immigration bill, so the fate of the so-called DREAMers is still up in the air. We're going to...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean To Be A 'Nation Of Immigrants'?
For immigrants, this past week has been a doozy: First, the United States Citizen and Immigration Services took the words "nation of immigrants" out of its mission statement . Then, the Supreme Court...
View ArticleThe Roots Of 'Black And Gray Realism' Tattoos
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: If you or someone you know has tattoos, you might recognize this style of tattooing that's become really popular at the moment. It's called black...
View ArticleBlack And Gray ... And Brown: A Tattoo Style's Chicano Roots
Tattoos are no longer taboo. According to a Harris poll , about half of American Millennials say they have at least one, and so do a third of Gen Xers. Once you have one, data show, you'll get more....
View ArticleWhat Happens When Groups Of People Are Described As Animals
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let's listen now to something President Trump said back in May to supporters at a rally in Tennessee. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)...
View ArticleCode Switch: Transracial Adoptees On Their Racial Identity And Sense Of Self
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SHEREEN MARISOL MERAJI, HOST: And finally today, we're going to take a listen to a podcast I host along with Gene Demby called Code Switch. It's all about race...
View ArticleThrough Slavery, Segregation And More, 'La Bamba' Has Been The Sound Of Survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNlRF6DkSs This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem . Sixty years...
View ArticleThe 'Young Black Man' Who Reluctantly Became An NRA-Certified Instructor
RJ Young wasn't always into firearms. Quite the opposite. "Because I always knew that guns were something that could get me killed," he says in an interview. "They weren't really around to help me....
View ArticleWith Trump At The Border, A Look Back At U.S. Immigration Policy
President Trump traveled to a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, today, continuing on his campaign to drum up support for a $5.7 billion border wall. The visit came after weeks of Congressional...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Race, Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate
Karla Mosley wants you to know that people with eating disorders look like her too. "I'm a woman of color and I certainly didn't know that people like me had eating disorders," she says. "I thought it...
View ArticleThe Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever
Today, ethnic studies is an accepted part of academia. Many if not most college students have taken a course or two. But 50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white...
View ArticleMeet Marsai Martin, The Youngest Executive Producer In Hollywood
The youngest executive producer working in Hollywood makes her big-screen debut this weekend. Little is a comedy where a big and powerful tech executive wakes up as a little kid. In the end credits,...
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