Race

Rocked By Rally, Charlottesville Mayor Wants Conversations About Race

8:12am August 07, 2018

Last year Nikuyah Walker was an activist criticizing how Charlottesville, Va., handled the Unite the Right rally. Now she's mayor. Noel King talks to her about how the rally changed Charlottesville.

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Alex Jones' Infowars Site Accuses 'Big Tech' Of Censorship

7:14am August 07, 2018

by David Folkenflik

Social media sites have removed main outlets for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars website, citing repeated violations of policies against hate speech and glorifying violence.

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African-American Model Beverly Johnson On Her Historic 'Vogue' Cover

7:28am August 06, 2018

by Justin Richmond

Johnson reflects on becoming the first black cover model of American Vogue in 1974. September marks another first in the magazine's 126-year history: the cover photographer will be African-American.

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Books

Time With White Nationalists Recorded In 'Everything You Love Will Burn'

5:59am August 06, 2018

Noel Kings talks to journalist Vegas Tenold, who spent several years embedded with white nationalist groups — culminating in last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

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Morning News Brief: Trump Tower Meeting, Calif. Wildfires

5:04am August 06, 2018

Trump again defended a meeting among top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer. An update on one of Northern California's largest wildfires. The significance of an upcoming white nationalist rally.

National

New Context For Confederate Memorials

8:29am August 05, 2018

Regina Phillips, director of the Lincolnville Museum, an African-American history center in St. Augustine, Fla., talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how to add context to Confederate monuments.

Black Pastors And Trump

8:29am August 05, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Eugene Scott, identity politics reporter for The Washington Post, about the public backlash against black pastors who met with President Trump.

Protesters attempt to cover a statue of Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest at Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tenn., in August 2017. The statue was removed in December.

National

Where Do Confederate Monuments Go After They Come Down?

8:08am August 05, 2018

As the first anniversary of the Charlottesville protest nears, cities like Memphis are wrestling with what to do with the controversial statues once they've been taken down.

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A demonstrator holds a "Black Lives Matter" sign while protesting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016. The hashtag started five years ago and is an "archetypal" example of a hashtag tied to political issues or causes.

Majority Of Black Americans Value Social Media For Amplifying Lesser-Known Issues

4:49am August 05, 2018

by Cecilia Lei

Public attitudes about social media's impact on political and civic engagement differ according to race and ethnicity, a recent study by the Pew Research Center finds.

National

In The Wake Of Charlottesville, Journalist Begins 'Documenting Hate' In America

3:06pm August 02, 2018

by Dave Davies

A.C. Thompson warns that white power groups in the U.S. increasingly view themselves as paramilitary organizations. His reporting is featured in a new FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigation.

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