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National

This Isn't The First Time Americans Have Debated What To Call Detention Centers

4:35pm July 05, 2019

by Adrian Florido

The fight over what to call the detention centers at the Southern border evokes a similar debate over what to call Japanese American incarceration during World War II.

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Jamal Batar and his father, Aden, at StoryCorps in West Valley City, Utah, in March 2017. The Batar family fled the civil war in Somalia for the United States in 1994.

'We Are Americans': Somali Refugee Family Reflects On Making A Life In The U.S.

10:49am July 05, 2019

Aden Batar directs a refugee resettlement program in Utah. It is the same organization that helped resettle his family 25 years ago, when they fled a harrowing civil war in Somalia.

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After Shoe Controversy: Arizona Rescinds Tax Incentive For Nike Factory

7:25am July 03, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Maria Polletta of The Arizona Republic about the controversy in the state surrounding Nike's decision to pull its "Betsy Ross Flag" shoes.

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a news conference at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Annual International Convention in Chicago on Tuesday.

Politics & Government

Buttigieg Tries Again To Woo Black Voters Amid Race Controversy In His Hometown

4:05pm July 02, 2019

by Domenico Montanaro

The South Bend, Ind., mayor and presidential candidate has been dealing with the aftermath of a fatal shooting in his hometown in which a white officer shot a black man.

Politics & Government

Politicians And 'Hispandering'

8:19am June 30, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Julio Ricardo Varela, co-host of the political podcast In The Thick, about presidential candidates trying to connect with voters by speaking Spanish.

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Education

A History Of School Busing

8:19am June 30, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Matt Delmont, professor of history at Dartmouth College, about the history of busing and how it affects school segregation to this date.

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California lawmakers have passed a bill banning discrimination against people who wear natural hairstyles such as braids.

National

California Is Poised To Ban Hair Discrimination

9:11pm June 28, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The bill says that workplace dress codes and grooming policies that ban Afros, braids and other hairstyles burden or punish black employees more than any other group.

James Fields was sentenced on Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.

National

Neo-Nazi Who Killed Charlottesville Protester Is Sentenced To Life In Prison

4:32pm June 28, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring many others. He pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes, avoiding the death penalty.

Historic Pennsylvania Law To Seal Millions Of Criminal Charges Automatically

4:20pm June 28, 2019

by Aaron Moselle

Starting Friday, Pennsylvania will be the first state to automatically seal records for non-convictions, summary offenses and most nonviolent misdemeanor convictions.

National

Black Residents In Long Island Community Struggled To Get Federal Aid

5:31am June 24, 2019

by Charles Lane

An earlier NPR probe found money from a federal program that helps people move after a disaster goes disproportionately to whiter communities. A Long Island neighborhood highlights the inequality.