National What Top Film Schools Are Doing To Help Diversify Hollywood Before the pandemic, diversity training programs were all the rage at movie and TV studios. Now, how are they faring? Mandalit del Barco
Books 'Bronzeville' Author Discusses The Dualities Of 'Race, Fate, And Sisterhood' NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Chicago Tribune columnist Dawn Turner about her new book, Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood.
Movies 'How the Monuments Came Down' Filmmakers On Why Lee Statue Didn't Come Down Sooner Filmmakers Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren discuss their film, How the Monuments Came Down, about 160 years of history in Richmond, VA., and the removal of the confederate statues along Monument Ave. Justine Kenin Jason Fuller
Movies Hispanics and Latinos Are The Biggest Moviegoers. The Big Screen Doesn't Reflect That Nearly 20% of Americans are Latino or Hispanic and they buy more movie tickets per capita. But a new report says just 7% of all lead characters in 2019's top-grossing films were Hispanic or Latino. Emma Bowman
National A 'New Yorker' Editor Dug For Diversity Stats. She Calls The Results 'Passive Racism' Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "a Southern country club in the 1950s," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented. Anastasia Tsioulcas
National Fort Hood Should Be Renamed After The First Hispanic 4-Star General, Lawmakers Say The federal government is continuing to decide how it will rename bases across the U.S. named after Confederate service members, a mandate included in the defense bill approved by Congress in January. Joe Hernandez
Race & Identity Right-Wing Media Outfit Powers Larry Elder's Bid For California Governor Conservative talk show host Larry Elder's long-shot bid to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom relies on the support of Salem Media Group, the right-wing network that employs him. David Folkenflik
National A Tahoe Ski Resort Ditches Its Name, Saying It's Racist And Sexist Squaw Valley hosted an Olympics, but it now has a new name. "It's a term that was inflicted upon us by somebody else and we don't agree with it," an official of the Washoe Tribe says. Bill Chappell
National 'Cops' Was Canceled Amid Protests Of Police Violence. Fox Is Bringing It Back The 33rd season of the controversial reality show will debut with four episodes, followed by a new episode every week on Fridays. Jonathan Franklin
National After Neo-Nazis Targeted Her, Taylor Dumpson Says Young Generations Give Her Hope According to FBI data, the number of reported hate crimes rose in 2020. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Taylor Dumpson of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights about her experience being targeted.