Plan To Widen Highway In South Carolina Would Cut Through Black And Brown Communities NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Omar Muhammad, executive director of the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities, on communities in North Charleston, S.C., facing displacement for a highway project. Leila Fadel
Black And Latino Homeowners Are About Twice As Likely As Whites To Get Low Appraisals A new analysis by Freddie Mac has found that only 7.4% of appraisals in majority-white census tracts came in below contract price, compared with 12.5% for Black areas and 15.4% for Latino ones. Joe Hernandez
At 100, The National Park Service's Oldest Active Ranger Is Still Going Strong Betty Soskin's career with the National Park Service began in 2000 after attending a presentation on a plan to create the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. Jonathan Franklin
With A Spotlight On Gabby Petito, The Parents Of 2 Missing Black Men Call For Action The families of Jelani Day and Daniel Robinson, both Black men in their 20s, are continuing their push for answers in the weeks and months after their disappearances. Rachel Treisman
An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed The Emancipation and Freedom Monument — two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant newly freed from slavery — will be unveiled in Richmond, the former Confederate capital. Deepa Shivaram
What Lorde's Te Reo Maori Songs Mean For The Effort To Revive The Language Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language. Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
What Top Film Schools Are Doing To Help Diversify Hollywood The U.S.'s top film schools are prioritizing a diverse student body. The demand for better representation on screen and behind the camera requires a talent pipeline from film schools. Mandalit del Barco
What Top Film Schools Are Doing To Help Diversify Hollywood Before the pandemic, diversity training programs were all the rage at movie and TV studios. Now, how are they faring? Mandalit del Barco
'Bronzeville' Author Discusses The Dualities Of 'Race, Fate, And Sisterhood' NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Chicago Tribune columnist Dawn Turner about her new book, Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood.
'How the Monuments Came Down' Filmmakers On Why Lee Statue Didn't Come Down Sooner Filmmakers Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren discuss their film, How the Monuments Came Down, about 160 years of history in Richmond, VA., and the removal of the confederate statues along Monument Ave. Justine Kenin