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    Fifth Street

    January 14, 2021

    Jan 14, 2021
    War All the Time | Shedding Light on the Moapa Solar Project | After the Capitol Siege, Now What?| Welcome to Inhuman Resources
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    NPR Public Editor
    NPR's Code Switch is Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year for 2020
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    Code Switch Is An Overnight Sensation 7 Years In The Making

    Dec 10, 2020
    How a startup show grows in a legacy organization
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    Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice
    Penn State University head basketball coach Pat Chambers has resigned from his post.
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    Penn State Men's Basketball Coach Resigns After Investigation Into 'Noose' Comment

    Oct 22, 2020
    Pat Chambers resigned after the university said it investigated new allegations of inappropriate conduct. In July, a Black former player said Chambers referenced "noose" around the player's neck.
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    Kyle Larson, shown here during a practice at Daytona International Speedway in February, has been reinstated by NASCAR after he was suspended in April.
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    NASCAR Reinstates Racer Kyle Larson After Suspending Him For Using N-Word

    Oct 20, 2020
    Kyle Larson was dropped from his racing team and quickly lost sponsors after uttering the N-word in April while playing a livestreamed video game. NASCAR has now lifted his suspension.
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    National
    Thomas poses for a portrait at the African American Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont. Thomas restored the graveyard and then used it to bury her teenage son when he drowned in June.
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    A Pastor Rescues A Cemetery For Enslaved People, Then Buries Her Son In It

    Oct 19, 2020
    After her teenaged son drowned, Pastor Michelle Thomas decided to bury him in a old burial ground she had come across earlier while searching for a new site for her church.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    During the Sept. 29 presidential debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland, President Trump declined to denounce white supremacists. Days later he told Fox News that he condemned right-wing hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud B
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    Critics Accuse Trump Of Using Race To Divide Americans

    Oct 09, 2020
    President Trump's alarming rhetoric on race is a feature of his 2020 campaign. His actions have normalized racist fringe ideologies and encouraged extremists, according to critics.
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Racism Is Always Here, So How Do We Break Through?

    Jan 01, 2021

    (Editor's note: This discussion originally aired Oct. 1, 2020.)

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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice

    Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can't Embrace

    Oct 01, 2020
    People born or descended from Spanish-speaking nations are still debating if any of the ethnic labels used to identify them in the United States feel right.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A child washes her hands at a daycare center in Connecticut last month. A detailed look at COVID-19 deaths in U.S. kids and young adults by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the great majority are children of color.
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    The Majority Of Children Who Die From COVID-19 Are Children Of Color

    Sep 15, 2020
    According to data reported to the CDC, 121 children died from COVID-19 between February and July of this year. And 78% of the children who died were Hispanic, Black or Native American.
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    George Washington University is "looking into the situation" of history professor Jessica A. Krug, after a blog post written under that name said that she had invented her Black Caribbean identity, despite actually being white.
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    GWU Investigating Whether White Professor Invented Her Black Identity

    Sep 04, 2020
    "You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself," says a blog post signed Jessica A. Krug. That's also the name of a historian of the African Diaspora at George Washington University.
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    Race and Racism
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    As LatinX In Nevada Grows, So Do Racial Challenges

    Dec 30, 2020

    (Editor's note: This discussion originally aired Sept. 3, 2020.)

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    Fifth Street

    September 3, 2020

    Sep 03, 2020
    Monster Machine | Make It Work | Media Sommelier | Black Camaro
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Asian-Americans Driving New Economic Growth In Southern Nevada

    Dec 29, 2020

    It was some 25 years ago that developer James Chen reasoned he could lure Asian travelers off the Strip with high-quality food prepared as it is in Asia. 

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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    You Can't Live There: A Long Struggle For Black Rights In Las Vegas

    Dec 28, 2020

    Are we facing a painful truth?  That diversity does not equate to social justice.  That the end of segregation has not led to a culture of anti-racism? 

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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    Scott Hobgood and Jason Niupulusū grew up in Webster County, Ky., and joined NPR's David Greene for a roundtable discussion about race and social justice.
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    National Conversation About Race Brews In Rural Western Kentucky

    Jul 31, 2020
    In an interview with David Greene, two men from Webster County, Ky., argue over race at first, but then a disclosure about deeply personal history leads to a bit of unexpected common ground.
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    Every Voice: Race, Protest, and Power in Las Vegas

    Jul 13, 2020

    Highlights from our July 9 roundtable on racial justice in Southern Nevada

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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    A cyclist rides on the sidewalk past a <em>Los Angeles Times</em> advertisement in downtown Los Angeles. The newspaper is being sued by employees alleging pay discrimination.
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    Journalists File Bias Complaint Against LA Times, As Editor Promises Change

    Jun 25, 2020
    On Wednesday LA Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine pledged greater diversity and sensitivity. Yet in court, LA Times journalists allege longstanding bias against Blacks, Hispanics and women.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    A woman stops to photograph a memorial for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church on Tuesday in Houston.
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    WATCH: Family Of George Floyd, Whose Death Sparked Protests, Holds Funeral Service

    Jun 09, 2020

    George Floyd's death at the hands of police sparked protests around the world. His family's private service Tuesday follows public memorials that drew thousands of mourners.

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    Simon Says
    Demonstrators gather on 16th St. near Lafayette Park during a peaceful protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, on June 5, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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    OPINION: In the Shadow of Protests, Turn to Ralph Ellison

    Jun 06, 2020
    WIth protests continuing across the country in the wake of police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Scott Simon turns to Ralph Ellison's classic novel "Invisible Man" for wisdom.
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    Goats and Soda
    A Maasai man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, prays next to a mural of George Floyd, painted by the artist Allan Mwangi on June 3.
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    From Murals To Tweets: The Global South Shows Solidarity With George Floyd Protests

    Jun 06, 2020
    Whether by painting murals, tweeting or taking to the streets, people in countries struggling with conflict, poverty and other crises are showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    In response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent months, some black people are saying that enough is enough. Clockwise from top left: Michael Martin, Tunisian Burks, Sam Tyler, Alexander Pittman, the Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel, Bra
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    Being Black In America: 'We Have A Place In This World Too'

    Jun 05, 2020
    As protests continue around the country in response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent weeks, black people say they are frustrated, fearful and fatigued.
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    Sports
    The NFL has set protocols for reopening team facilities, a process that begins as early as Tuesday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is shown here speaking in Miami in February.
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    NFL Announces New Rules To Tackle Lack Of Diversity In Its Coaching, Executive Ranks

    May 19, 2020
    The NFL expanded the Rooney Rule on the same day teams were allowed to reopen practice facilities if area regulations allowed. Team facilities were shut in late March out of COVID-19 concerns.
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    Goats and Soda
    Nesma (left) and Anys are Algerian siblings who came out to each other at a party. They live in Paris, and both identify as queer. "It now makes us stronger and committed together for the queer and Algerian causes," Anys says.
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    'Un-African'? Photos Challenge Notions Of LGBTQ Identity In The African Diaspora

    Nov 02, 2019
    Mikael Owunna's new book captures the stories of LGBTQ African immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers reconciling their identity and their heritage.
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    Sports
    Raedeyn Teton, left, and Jessica Broncho, race side-by-side in an Indian Relay on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.
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    Indian Relay Celebrates History And Culture Through Horse Racing

    Aug 21, 2019
    One of the ways Native tribes in the West celebrate their history and culture is through annual summer horse races. They're known as Indian Relays, and tribes call them America's first extreme sport.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>The Yellow House,</em> by Sarah M/ Broom
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    'The Yellow House' Connects Place, Memory And Self-Knowledge

    Aug 13, 2019
    Sarah Broom's childhood house is the fulcrum for her memoir about her large and complex family. But perhaps more important, it stands in for the countless ways America has failed African Americans.

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