Politics The Kerner Commission's Last Living Member: We Still Need To Talk About Racism Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in America. Its groundbreaking report blamed racism.
Arts & Life Tiny Desk Teams Up With Alt.Latino This Month NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre about their Alt.Latino Tiny Desk takeover for Hispanic Heritage Month.
National Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories Erika Marie Rivers created the Our Black Girls website to shine a light on Black girls and women who have gone missing or were murdered, a demographic that gets disproportionately less media coverage. Sharon Pruitt-Young
Politics Plan To Widen Highway In South Carolina Would Cut Through Black And Brown Communities NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Omar Muhammad, executive director of the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities, on communities in North Charleston, S.C., facing displacement for a highway project. Leila Fadel Jason Fuller Ashley Brown
National Black And Latino Homeowners Are About Twice As Likely As Whites To Get Low Appraisals A new analysis by Freddie Mac has found that only 7.4% of appraisals in majority-white census tracts came in below contract price, compared with 12.5% for Black areas and 15.4% for Latino ones. Joe Hernandez
National At 100, The National Park Service's Oldest Active Ranger Is Still Going Strong Betty Soskin's career with the National Park Service began in 2000 after attending a presentation on a plan to create the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. Jonathan Franklin
National With A Spotlight On Gabby Petito, The Parents Of 2 Missing Black Men Call For Action The families of Jelani Day and Daniel Robinson, both Black men in their 20s, are continuing their push for answers in the weeks and months after their disappearances. Rachel Treisman
National An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed The Emancipation and Freedom Monument — two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant newly freed from slavery — will be unveiled in Richmond, the former Confederate capital. Deepa Shivaram
Music What Lorde's Te Reo Maori Songs Mean For The Effort To Revive The Language Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language. Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
National What Top Film Schools Are Doing To Help Diversify Hollywood The U.S.'s top film schools are prioritizing a diverse student body. The demand for better representation on screen and behind the camera requires a talent pipeline from film schools. Mandalit del Barco