Joy Buolamwini: How Do Biased Algorithms Damage Marginalized Communities? Data, numbers, algorithms are supposed to be neutral ... right? Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discusses the way biased algorithms can lead to real-world inequality. NPR/TED Staff
Colette Pichon Battle: How Can We Prepare For The Next Hurricane Katrina? Sea level rise will displace millions by 2100 — and the Louisiana bayous, where Colette Pichon Battle lives, may disappear entirely. She describes how we can avert the worst when disaster strikes. NPR/TED Staff
Brent Leggs: How Can Seeing Black History As American History Begin To Make Amends? How can we make amends for the atrocities of slavery and segregation? Historian and preservationist Brent Leggs discusses one step in confronting the past: preserving African American historic sites. NPR/TED Staff
White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward ‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’ John O'Brien
Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights 'By Blood' The wording in the Cherokee Nation's legal doctrine has been used to exclude Black people whose ancestors were once enslaved by the Cherokees — known as Freedmen — from their full tribal rights. Farah Eltohamy
For Black Families, Evictions Are Still At A Crisis Point — Despite Moratorium "Black individuals make up about 21% of all renters, but they make up 35% of all defendants on eviction cases," says Peter Hepburn, a researcher for Princeton University's Eviction Lab. Pam Fessler
Why Democrats Can't Take Latino Voters For Granted Democrats did not do as well in the 2020 Election with Latino voters as they had hoped they would — particularly in South Florida, where the Latino vote is crucial. So what happened? Steve Inskeep
Racism Controversy Rocks 'Bachelor' Nation NPR's Michel Martin discusses the most recent Bachelor controversy with Brandy Monk-Payton, a scholar of media and Black cultural studies at Fordham University.
New Survey Shows 3 In 5 White Evangelicals Say Joe Biden Wasn't Legitimately Elected Christian nationalism has effectively spread so much disinformation that three in five white evangelicals say Biden was not legitimately elected, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
Behind The Former Slave Narratives Captured By A New Deal Program In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project collected the narratives of former slaves in the United States. Clint Smith of The Atlantic speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about these stories.