Arrested for refusing to give up bus seat in 1955, she's fighting to clear her record Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. The Associated Press
Where We Come From: What's in a name? Author Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Tiffany Aliche talk about changing their given Nigerian names to more American ones in order to assimilate, and what their given versus chosen names mean to them today. Anjuli Sastry
A Black museum asks to melt Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue to create new art In 2017, debate over Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue sparked a violent neo-Nazi rally that left a woman dead. Now, a Black cultural center wants to melt it down and turn it into public art. Becky Sullivan
Black children make up more than half of the incidents of police using force on kids NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Kristin Henning of Georgetown University on why Black children are more likely to be handled forcibly by police. Ashley Brown
A now-repealed law will weigh on the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joseph Margulies, a criminal law expert, about how citizen's arrest laws factor into the trial of three white men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Ashish Valentine
In Mississippi, 2 years after ICE raids, Latin American immigrants are there to stay NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. about their reporting on the aftermath of the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history. Amy Isackson
Black women's group makes history climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Diana Kinard and Dawn Frazier started a climbing group with other Black women called Shades of Favor. In August they became the first Black American women to ascend the almost 20,000 foot peak.
Black and Latino families are bearing the weight of the pandemic's economic toll Even with government assistance and other efforts, more than 55% of Black and Latino households reported serious financial problems, compared with 29% of white households. Laurel Wamsley
New York City will exile Thomas Jefferson's statue from a prominent spot in city hall "We're not being revisionist. We're not waging a war on history," council member Inez Barron said. "We're saying that we want to make sure that the total story is told." Bill Chappell
Jury selection has begun in the trial of the 3 men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and their friend William "Roddie" Bryan have pleaded not guilty in the 2020 killing of Arbery as he jogged in a residential neighborhood in Georgia. Joe Hernandez