Food As Brands Reach For Diverse Customers, McDonald's Launches A Saweetie Celebrity Meal Big companies are becoming more inclusive and featuring more Blacks and other minorities in their ads and marketing materials as a way to take a stand against racism, analysts say. Jonathan Franklin
Race & Identity Why 'Reservations Dogs' Is So Important For Indigenous Representation In the new comedy series 'Reservation Dogs', four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma are desperate for a new life in California. Native critic Vincent Schilling calls the show "ground breaking."
Arts & Life PBS And Ken Burns Vow To Do Better On Diversity But Critics Aren't Convinced PBS has announced $11 million in grants to boost diversity among documentary filmmakers months after an open letter accused the service of unfairly favoring white creators. Eric Deggans
Race & Identity Encore: Rutherford Falls Creators On Finding Humor In America's 'Messy' History We revisit NPR's Audie Cornish's conversation with comedy writers Michael Schur and Sierra Teller Ornelas about America's messy history and turning discomfort into the sitcom "Rutherford Falls." Audie Cornish
Sports A German Cycling Official Apologizes After Shouting A Racial Slur During A Race A German cyclist says he was "appalled" by the words from the sporting director of Germany's cycling federation. Bill Chappell
National Olympic Pressure And How Black Athletes Balance Being Applauded Yet Feared NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with sociologist Harry Edwards about the pressure Black Olympians face and how it intersects with white supremacy that has been historically perpetuated in the games. Brianna Scott Jonaki Mehta
National Kansas City Chiefs Removed Their Offensive Mascot, But Have No Plans To Change Name Kansas City's pro football team has retired a longtime on-field personality, Warpaint the horse, over concerns about the use of Native American imagery. Groups insist the Chiefs' name be changed. Luke X. Martin
Books How Sandra Cisneros Found Space To Be 'Barefoot' And 'Rude' On the latest episode of Code Switch, Cisneros talks about why she became obsessed with houses, what it was like to finally buy one, and—spoiler alert—what it felt like to fall out of love with it. Natalie Escobar
Business The Executive Editor At The 'Miami Herald' Responds Publicly To Racist Email NPR's A Martinez talks to Monica Richardson, the first black executive editor of the Miami Herald, about why she wrote an open letter responding to a racist email she received.
Race & Identity Bob Moses, Civil Rights Leader And Longtime Educator, Dies At 86 Moses, the architect of Freedom Summer's voting registration drive in Mississippi, also spent decades crusading against inequalities in the public school system through his math training program. Dustin Jones Emma Bowman
