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    President Biden Takes Office
    Susan Rice, President Biden's domestic policy adviser, discusses his racial equity agenda Tuesday at the White House.
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    Biden White House Aims To Advance Racial Equity With Executive Actions

    Jan 26, 2021

    President Biden is signing four executive actions aimed at upholding one of his key campaign themes.

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    Book Reviews
    <em>The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto</em> by Charles M. Blow
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    Charles Blow's 'The Devil You Know' Is A Black Power Manifesto For Our Time

    Jan 26, 2021
    Blow's book is a call to action for Black Americans to reconsider their Great Migration North and imagine new possibilities of Black political might.
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    Biden Transition Updates
    Supporters rally outside the U.S. Treasury Department in 2019 to demand that American abolitionist Harriet Tubman's image be put on the $20 bill.
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    Biden Administration Will 'Speed Up' Efforts To Put Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

    Jan 25, 2021
    Press secretary Jen Psaki said it's important that "our money ... reflect the history and diversity of our country." The effort to redesign the $20 bill foundered during the Trump administration.
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    Race

    Understanding Multiracial Whiteness And Trump Supporters

    Jan 24, 2021
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Cristina Beltran, professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, about the phenomenon of "multi-racial whiteness."
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    Health

    New York City's Vaccine Outreach Aims To Dispel Mistrust Among Communities Of Color

    Jan 23, 2021
    New York City is trying to build trust for coronavirus vaccines by doing pop-up food banks and flu vaccine clinics at churches and community centers in minority neighborhoods.
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    President Biden Takes Office
    Austin speaks last month in Wilmington, Del., after being formally nominated as defense secretary.
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    Lloyd Austin Confirmed As Defense Secretary, Becomes 1st Black Pentagon Chief

    Jan 22, 2021
    Austin's near-unanimous confirmation came despite concerns raised on both sides of the aisle that he hadn't been out of uniform for the legally mandated minimum seven-year period.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea</em>, by Tyler Stovall
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    'White Freedom' Examines The Tandem Development Of The Concepts Of Freedom And Race

    Jan 20, 2021
    Tyler Stovall writes white freedom is "the belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and that only white people can or should be free" — noting nations were built on it.
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    Howard University's Marching Band To Perform During Inauguration

    Jan 19, 2021
    Howard University's Showtime Marching Band will be part of the inaugural activities. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a Howard graduate, often included drum lines in her campaign events.
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    Code Switch
    Capitol workers remove damaged furniture on from the U.S. Capitol on January 7, 2021, following the riot at the Capitol the day before.
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    The 'Racial Caste System' At The U.S. Capitol

    Jan 19, 2021
    After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists on January 6, there was work to be done — and it wasn't lost on many that cleaning up the mess would fall largely to Black and Brown people.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Kristamarie Collman, a family physician in Orlando, has been dispelling vaccine myths through social media. She's among a growing cohort of Black doctors trying to reach vaccine-hesitant members of their communities.
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    'You Can't Treat If You Can't Empathize': Black Doctors Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy

    Jan 19, 2021
    Black vaccine hesitancy goes back to history of distrust of medicine, say doctors and researchers. To help, it's important to empower people with knowledge to make their own choices.
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    Movie Interviews
    Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says <em>MLK/FBI</em> director Sam Pollard.
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    Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

    Jan 18, 2021
    MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI's campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.
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    Religion

    Rev. Dyson Imagines How St. Paul Would Admonish U.S. For Racism

    Jan 18, 2021
    NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Reverend Michael Eric Dyson about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and racism in politics and religion.
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    There's Pain And Tragedy In 'Yellow Wife' — But Also Great Joy

    Jan 17, 2021
    Sadeqa Johnson's novel — inspired by a real historical figure — pulls no punches in its tale of an enslaved woman trying to survive and make a life for herself and her family.
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    The History In 'Angel Of Greenwood' Could Not Be More Timely

    Jan 16, 2021
    Randi Pink's new novel follows a young couple, Angel and Isaiah, whose budding love is set against the backdrop of historical tragedy: the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
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    Shots - Health News
    People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.
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    OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

    Jan 16, 2021
    As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?
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    Code Switch
    Pro-Trump supporters gather outside the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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    When White Extremism Seeps Into The Mainstream

    Jan 15, 2021
    Professor Kathleen Belew explains how people on the mainstream right become radicalized, and why white nationalism grew so influential after the Vietnam War.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    In 2017, Sean Urbanski (right) approached and fatally stabbed Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III as he waited for a ride-share, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
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    White Man Gets Life In Prison For Killing Black Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III

    Jan 15, 2021
    Sean Urbanski, 25, was convicted of murdering Collins in 2017. Limitations in Maryland's hate crime statute that exempted Urbanski led to a change in the law.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Medical personnel prone a COVID-19 patient last November at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles.
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    Pandemic Shortens U.S. Life Expectancy, Study Concludes

    Jan 15, 2021
    The deaths caused by the pandemic appear to be shortening overall life expectancy in the U.S. by 1.13 years, which would be the largest single decline in at least 40 years.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear,</em> by Dr. Carl L. Hart
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    'Drug Use For Grown-Ups' Serves As An Argument For Personal Choice

    Jan 15, 2021
    Dr. Carl Hart's positions on drug use and availability may seem quite extreme to some — but are thoughtful and data-driven. He asserts that racism is a major factor in the negative image drugs carry.
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    Code Switch
    Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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    What Does It Mean To Call The Capitol Rioters 'Terrorists'?

    Jan 14, 2021
    Some say it's the precise word to describe the actions of the pro-Trump extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But others warn its use will do more harm than good.
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    Race
    Shouting protesters face NYPD officers during a Black Lives Matter demonstration last summer in New York City, in outrage over the death of a Black man in Minnesota who died after a white policeman knelt on his neck for several minutes.
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    New York State Sues NYPD Over Its Handling Of 2020 Racial Justice Protests

    Jan 14, 2021
    The state attorney general's office says it has received "more than 1,300 complaints and pieces of evidence" about the police response to the protests in New York City.
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    Race

    Why Black Officers Find Breach Of U.S. Capitol Particularly Upsetting

    Jan 14, 2021
    Members of the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. police were overpowered by a violent mob storming the Capitol Building. There were also a few officers that appeared to sympathize with the mob.
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    'Black Radical' Traces The Life And Legacy Of Activist William Monroe Trotter

    Jan 13, 2021
    Trotter was a Black newspaper editor in the early 20th century who advocated for civil rights by organizing mass protests. Historian Kerri Greenidge tells his story in her new book.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>Aftershocks: A Memoir,</em> by Nadia Owusu
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    'Aftershocks' Tells Of A Reckoning With The Self — And With Memory

    Jan 13, 2021
    Writer Nadia Owusu has lived many lives. Her nonlinear memoir, centered on the idea of physical and metaphorical earthquakes, is about all of the parts of what is her single, complex life.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was captured on cellphone video kneeling on George Floyd's neck for several minutes, still faces a higher charge of second-degree murder.
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    Court Says Former Officer Who Kneeled On George Floyd's Neck To Stand Trial Alone

    Jan 12, 2021
    A Minnesota judge cited the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as reason to have Derek Chauvin's trial start on March 8, while the other officers involved in Floyd's death will have their trial in August.

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