Congress reignites a bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination Previous attempts to pass the legislation banning hair discrimination have stalled in Congress. Chandelis Duster
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence. Debbie Elliott
D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance. Juliana Kim
60 years since Bloody Sunday, Selma's civil rights activists carry on the legacy Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago. Debbie Elliott
War heroes are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given the military until Wednesday to remove content highlighting diversity efforts following an executive order ending those programs across the government. The Associated Press
How did 'DEI' become part of a larger political agenda -- and a slur? Georgetown professor Ella Washington and Harvard professor Frank Dobbin discuss the beneficiaries and misperceptions of DEI, and who will be hurt as it's dismantled across public and private sectors. Tonya Mosley
Black Gospel Archive fills gaps in gospel music history The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now it wants to collect oral histories around its rare recordings. Molly-Jo Tilton
Long ignored, Black modernist architects get recognition Black architects who helped shape the modern architecture movement have often been overlooked. One effort preserves the structures they designed and tells their stories. Buffy Gorrilla
'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book. Maureen Corrigan
Rollback of diversity efforts leaves teachers wondering about effects on Black History Month The Education Department's efforts to keep racial diversity out of schools has left educators wondering how and when to teach students about Black history, especially during Black History Month. Kassidy Arena