Race

Bryan Stevenson built a museum and monument in Alabama dedicated to slavery and its legacy. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again,' " he says.

Eight Democratic candidates addressed the 2020 Brown and Black Forum in Des Moines — facing scrutiny from black and Hispanic voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

Miller was a mess attendant on the West Virginia when he jumped in to man a machine gun during the Pearl Harbor attack. He is the first African American to have an aircraft carrier named after him.

In Washington state's Skagit Valley, a conflict is unfolding between Native Americans and farmers. Elk are making a comeback there. Local tribes are thrilled, but the agriculture industry is not.

"Namaste" has a meaning among Hindi speakers. But in the U.S., the word has been wrangled out of its context and tossed around to mean whatever people want it to.

The NFL has 32 head coaches, but only four of those coaches are people of color — in a league whose players are around 70% black. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with DeMaurice Smith of the NFLPA.

A study of more than 100 cities nationwide shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.

In 1856, Frederick Douglass had a choice to make: support the big change he believed in — abolition of slavery — or settle for a less sweeping shift from a candidate better positioned to win.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nina Turner, national co-chair of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, about African American voters supporting Sanders over Vice President Joe Biden.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with N. Jeremi Duru, who teaches sports law at American University, about the lack of head coaches of color in the NFL.

NPR's Steve Inskeep, discussing his book Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War, touches on parallels to U.S. politics in 2020.