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  This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America

  In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

  • Terry Gross
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  Civil rights leaders say the racial progress Jesse Jackson fought for is under threat

  Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.

  • Debbie Elliott

• Decades after being blocked from the Little League World Series, a Black team is honored

  A Black little league team that got invited to the 1963 Little League World Series but never got to go because of segregation is finally getting recognition.
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  'Black lives do matter. People do matter. Everybody is somebody': Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson's visit to KUOW

  Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday. In a statement reported by NPR, Jackson's family said, "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world. We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family."

  • Jason Pagano

• As white nationalist slogans, images, and memes become normalized, can we go back?

  NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism about the prevalence of racism in modern political discourse.

  • Ayesha Rascoe
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  A daughter reexamines her own family story in 'The Mixed Marriage Project'

  Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

  • Tonya Mosley
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  As some states try to show ICE the door, others put out the welcome mat

  After ICE federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, the divide between states on either side of the immigration enforcement debate is growing wider.

  • Mawa Iqbal

• Billions owed: 'The Debt' podcast covers the South's long fight to repay public HBCUs

  A long-running fight over how to calculate and repay state funding debts to public HBCUs is flaring across the South, and Emily Siner and Camellia Burris tell the story in their podcast 'The Debt' from Nashville Public Radio

  • Ahmad Damen
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  Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies

  Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

  • The Associated Press

• University of Alabama suspends student magazines amid DEI crackdown

  Kendal Wright, editor in chief of the University of Alabama's Nineteen Fifty-Six magazine, reacts to the suspension of two student publications amid a federal crackdown on campus DEI policies.

  • Jordan-Marie Smith

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