Race

The daughter of singer Lena Horne, Buckley who chronicled her family's history from enslavement to becoming a part of the Black bourgeoisie. She died July 18. Originally broadcast in 1986.

Reagon, who died July 16, was one of the powerful singers who helped galvanize the civil rights movement in the 1960s as a member of the Freedom Singers quartet. Originally broadcast in 1988.

One of the most influential writers to emerge during the civil rights era, Baldwin, who died in 1987, spoke to Terry Gross in 1986 about growing up in Harlem and his decision to move to France.

Former President Donald J. Trump did a question and answer session at the 2024 National Association of Black Journalists conference this week.

An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.

International Black Theatre Festival organizers look to expand the festival's reach into more diverse audiences by quelling some of the myths surrounding it.

The investigation into abuse and mistreatment of Native children at the boarding schools for more than a century proposes $23 billion in funding aimed at healing.

One of the first Black students to attend an all-white school in the Deep South is preserving the Lower 9th Ward elementary school she helped integrate in 1960 as a civil rights center.