Tag: NPR

  • America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-02-17 Alicia Montgomery Annette Elizabeth Allen for NPR When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, there was a lot of talk about “The Obama Effect”: how the nation’s first black president signaled a new era of…

  • Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-02-05 Angus Chen Genetics researchers often discover certain snips and pieces of the human genome that are important for health and development, such as the genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. And scientists…

  • “I mean, how do you explain… to children that slavery existed in freedom-loving America, No. 1; and No. 2, how do you explain to a child about an enslaved heritage shrouded in miscegenation? It’s not an easy thing to do.” —Regina Mason Terry Gross, “When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do…

  • When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…

  • #MemeOfTheWeek: The Racial Politics Of Nikki Haley National Public Radio 2016-01-16 Sam Sanders, Reporter, Washington Desk Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C. at Charleston, S.C., Republican presidential debate Thursday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response this week was either going to save the modern Republican…

  • Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review] NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015’s Great Reads National Public Radio 2015-12-08 Michael Schaub, book critic Produced by Nicole Cohen, Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer and Beth Novey Designed by Annette Elizabeth Allen, David Eads, Becky Lettenberger and Wes Lindamood Identity, both racial…

  • People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. “Everyone was brown, and then there was me,” Devora says. “I’m a white-skinned black woman. That’s how I…

  • Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Conversation With Trevor Noah Monkey See: Pop-Culture News And Analysis From NPR National Public Radio 2015-11-27 Linda Holmes, Host Monkey See Blog Linda Holmes and Trevor Noah talk during NPR’s Weekend In Washington event on October 31. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for NPR) It’s Thanksgiving week, and Team PCHH [Pop Culture…

  • Halloween Costume Emails Stokes Debate At Yale All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-11-09 Audie Cornish, Host Yale University is in turmoil after a series of emails about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Some students there are protesting what they say is a hostile environment for students of color. Sebi Median-Tayac [Aaron Z. Lewis], one of…

  • Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In ‘Negroland’ Code Switch: Fronties of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-09-08 Terry Gross, Host Fresh Air Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago’s black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson…