Race

Arts

Tamara Lawrence on playing Jennifer Gibbons in the real-life story 'The Silent Twins'

7:59am September 25, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with British actor Tamara Lawrance, co-star of "The Silent Twins" - a movie about two girls who grew up speaking only to each other.

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Cris Silva (left) and Josh Lamour aboard Sea Smoke in Portland, Maine.

National

These young men catch more than lobsters. They also catch a break

5:00am September 24, 2022

by Fred Bever

Four Black teens are learning how to lobster in a new program called "Lift All Boats." Maine's seafood packing plants have a diverse workforce, but commercial fishing is mostly white.

National

'Sidney' is a look at an actor who pioneered a vision of racial equality in Hollywood

5:14pm September 23, 2022

by Eric Deggans

Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, directed by Reginald Hudlin and supported by Poitier's surviving family, Apple TV+'s documentary Sidney details the life of actor-director-activist Sidney Poitier.

National

Encore: The revamped tour of Virginia's executive mansion doesn't mention slavery

4:51pm September 23, 2022

by Ben Paviour

Before Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was elected, years of work went into updating the executive mansion tour to include the lives of enslaved people. His revamped tour doesn't mention slavery.

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National

Two transracial adoptees with different views on abortion agree about cultural trauma

4:51pm September 23, 2022

by Megan Schellong

Adoption is sometimes touted by anti-abortion advocates as an alternative to abortion. Two transracial adoptees discuss their opposite positions on abortion and how they got there.

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How NBA players got an infamous team-owner to sell

5:14pm September 22, 2022

Billionaire Robert Sarver announced that he will sell his share of the NBA's Phoenix Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury. An investigation concluded that he had used racist and misogynist language.

Veterans of the civil rights movement of the 1960s see similarities today

1:25pm September 21, 2022

by John Burnett

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.

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Streets remained flooded in Cataño, Puerto Rico the day after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island.

Science

Why Latino people are on the front lines of climate change

5:01am September 21, 2022

by Rebecca Hersher

A wide range of Latino communities in the United States are affected by climate-driven storms, floods, droughts and heat waves, and are leading the charge to address global warming.

Health & Safety

How working-class Black men in Pittsburgh pioneered emergency medicine

5:10am September 20, 2022

by Bill O'Driscoll

Freedom House was Pittsburgh's first professional ambulance service, and likely the first anywhere. The first paramedics were a group of Black men from the city's historic Hill District.

For the first time in 230 years, Congress has full U.S. Indigenous representation

5:00am September 20, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

As of Sept. 13, there are six Indigenous Americans represented in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan members.