A long-running fight over how to calculate and repay state funding debts to public HBCUs is flaring across the South, and Emily Siner and Camellia Burris tell the story in their podcast 'The Debt' from Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessee Lookout.

On Monday, NCA&T will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Contest. A&T students Kieren Nite, Ariyanna Clark-Drew, and Zayveon Davis share their reflections on the slain civil rights leader and how his life has impacted theirs nearly 60 years after his death.

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

Kendal Wright, editor in chief of the University of Alabama's Nineteen Fifty-Six magazine, reacts to the suspension of two student publications amid a federal crackdown on campus DEI policies.

A new book examines the racist background of the last public hanging in the U.S. when tens of thousands of people came to watch in a small Kentucky town.

Gillespie Golf Course will host an event on Sunday to honor six men who led to the integration of the facility.

Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson and Upper Mattaponi Chief Frank Adams talk about preserving Virginia's Indigenous history and correcting long-held myths on their podcast.

A new Trump-backed voting map reopens Kansas City's racial divide along Troost Avenue.

A new urban development pitch competition sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Calpe Labs looks to create compassion-centered solutions in historically under-resourced communities. The goal is to preserve neighborhoods, provide green spaces and prevent gentrification.

Jo Erickson of Colorado Public Radio tells the story of Jason McBride's mission to steer teens away from gun violence in the podcast Systemic.