All Things Considered Sports Analyst: NBA Reliance On Analytics Hurts Diversity Hiring NPR's Michel Martin speaks with ESPN analyst Jalen Rose about why he thinks advanced analytics is hindering diversity hiring in the NBA.
All Things Considered Barbershop: How Black Votes Frame The Abortion Issue Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are in South Carolina this weekend for Black Economic Alliance's Presidential Candidates Forum. NPR's Michel Martin talks to professors Andra Gillespie Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Morning Edition Lonnie Bunch III Takes Helm Of The Smithsonian: 'I Feel The Weight Of History' The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the Smithsonian Institution's first African American secretary.
Weekend Edition Saturday Opinion: 'Central Park 5' Prosecutor Faces Harsh Criticism After Netflix Series Airs A new television series about the Central Park Five paints an unflattering portrait of former prosecutor Linda Fairstein.
KUOW Newsroom Black flight is not the end of Seattle's Central District's diversity story. "On The Brink" highlights those who working hard to keep it that way. Black flight in Seattle's Central District is in the past. The African American community there is hard at work to revitalize the area.
Hidden Brain People Like Us: How Our Identities Shape Health And Educational Success Generations of Americans have struggled against segregation. Most of us believe in the ideal of a colorblind society. But what happens when that ideal come up against research that finds colorblindness sometimes leads to worse outcomes?
Horrors And Humanity In Ava DuVernay's Gripping 'When They See Us' Ava DuVernay's powerful Netflix series shows a system that frequently fails men of color — and the costs of that system to a famous group of boys who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Morning Edition As Employment Rises, African American Transplants Ride Jobs Wave To The South At a time of low unemployment for African Americans, educated, well-connected professionals are starting new lives in cities such as Charlotte, N.C.
Alabama Historians Say The Last Known Slave Ship To U.S. Has Been Found The Clotilda carried 110 people from present-day Benin to the shores of Mobile in 1860, despite the import of slaves being illegal. Researchers told descendants about the discovery first.
All Things Considered Billionaire Robert F. Smith Pledges To Repay Loans For 2019 Morehouse College Class NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with American University professor Ibram X. Kendi about billionaire investor Robert F. Smith's pledge to the Morehouse College class of 2019 to repay their student loans.
