A Strange And Bitter Crop
Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up …
Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up …
The President’s Twitter feed has become the White House’s primary mechanism for communicating with the world. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR Politics took a deep dive into Trump’s combative social media …
On this episode, we look closer at hit songs that have taken on broader resonances: from a wistful ode to Puerto Rico to a disco classic about outlasting and thriving to an enduring bop about pushy, …
In “Prison City” Wisconsin, white elected officials are representing voting districts made up mostly of prisoners. Those prisoners are disproportionately black and brown. Oh, and they can’t actually …
How is it that the party of Lincoln became anathema to black voters? It’s a messy story, exemplified in the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.
Black Republicans are basically unicorns — they might just be the biggest outliers in American two-party politics. So who are these folks who’ve found a home in the GOP’s lily-white big tent? And …
In many parts of the U.S., public school districts are just minutes apart, but have vastly different racial demographics — and receive vastly different funding. That’s in part due to Milliken v. …
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called “Punks.” A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he’d ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
In August of 1619, a British ship landed near Jamestown, Virginia with dozens of enslaved Africans — the first black people in the colonies that would be come the United States. Four hundred years …
It’s a widely accepted truth: reading Shakespeare is good for you. But what should we do with all of the bigoted themes in his work? We talk to a group of high schoolers who put on the Merchant Of …