What Happens When A Hot New Restaurant Transforms An Established Old Neighborhood NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Frank Shyong of the Los Angeles Times about how popular restaurants, and the clients they attract, are changing places like L.A.'s Chinatown.
Congressional Hearing On Slavery Reparations Set For Wednesday A proposal to create a commission to study reparations for African Americans comes as the presidential election season is kicking into gear. Some Democratic hopefuls support reparations. Richard Gonzales
NPR Identifies 4th Attacker In Civil Rights-Era Cold Case A fourth man was involved in the 1965 attack on civil rights worker and minister James Reeb, but that man was never identified or charged in Reeb's murder, an NPR investigation revealed. Cat Schuknecht
25 Years After Apartheid Ended, South Africa's Land Rights Problem Is Boiling Over South African leaders have promised to redress land rights in the country since the end of apartheid. But whites still own most of the land and those without are setting up homesteads. Daniella Cheslow
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.
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.
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. Josh Axelrod
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. Scott Simon
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. Kim Malcolm
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? Shankar Vedantam