Race & Identity Audiences gravitate to TV shows with more diverse writers and casts, report says A new UCLA report shows television viewers like show with diverse casts and writers. But while some groups are making gains in Hollywood, Latinx people remain severely underrepresented. Mia Estrada
Food Kickapoo chef honors her heritage with Oakland's first Indigenous restaurant Oakland, Calif., is getting its first Indigenous restaurant in November, which will serve items like bison blueberry sausage and venison meatballs. Mia Venkat Amy Isackson
Arts & Life Hair salons have been a safe space for Black women for decades, even through COVID Hair salons have long been a safe space for Black women. And that doesn't seem to have changed despite all the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Taylor Jennings-Brown
National Arrested for refusing to give up bus seat in 1955, she's fighting to clear her record Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. The Associated Press
National Where We Come From: What's in a name? Author Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Tiffany Aliche talk about changing their given Nigerian names to more American ones in order to assimilate, and what their given versus chosen names mean to them today. Anjuli Sastry
Race & Identity A Black museum asks to melt Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue to create new art In 2017, debate over Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue sparked a violent neo-Nazi rally that left a woman dead. Now, a Black cultural center wants to melt it down and turn it into public art. Becky Sullivan
National Black children make up more than half of the incidents of police using force on kids NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Kristin Henning of Georgetown University on why Black children are more likely to be handled forcibly by police. Sarah McCammon Gabe O'Connor Ashley Brown
National A now-repealed law will weigh on the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joseph Margulies, a criminal law expert, about how citizen's arrest laws factor into the trial of three white men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Ari Shapiro Ashish Valentine Ashley Brown
National In Mississippi, 2 years after ICE raids, Latin American immigrants are there to stay NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. about their reporting on the aftermath of the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history. Miguel Macias Amy Isackson Sarah McCammon
Race & Identity Black women's group makes history climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Diana Kinard and Dawn Frazier started a climbing group with other Black women called Shades of Favor. In August they became the first Black American women to ascend the almost 20,000 foot peak.