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Remembering Mother Emanuel, 10 years after racist attack on famed Charleston church

Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.
- Debbie Elliott
What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we're digging into what Trump's fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.
- Gene Demby
Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.
- Alina Selyukh
A look at Indian American life highlights communities across the U.S.

Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.
- Emily Bogle
A father and son reflect on their conversations about race after George Floyd

Black parents tell their children about the dangers of racism with "the talk." What has it been like since George Floyd's murder? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Ryan Ross and his son, Gavin.
- Ayesha Rascoe
At George Floyd Square, art and music help a community heal

Musicians, poets and artists have shown up day after day to bring a livelier energy to the intersection in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed five years ago this weekend. Hear how they're using the arts to try to heal.
- Meg Anderson
Who George Floyd was — and how systemic racism shaped his life

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.
- Michel Martin
Asian American voters backed Trump in Nevada. Here's how they feel about him now

After backing Joe Biden in 2020, Asian American voters in Nevada swung decisively toward Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they reflect on how his presidency is going so far.
- Sarah McCammon
The only female unit to serve overseas in WWII gets a congressional medal 80 years on

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for decades. Just two of the 855 women are believed to be alive for the ceremony.
- Rachel Treisman
Texas hearing on Walmart mass shooting sets stage for plea to avoid the death penalty

Patrick Crusius has acknowledged he targeted Hispanics on Aug. 3, 2019, when he opened fire in the store crowded with weekend shoppers from the U.S. and Mexico in the border city of El Paso.
- The Associated Press

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