Denver School Principal On How Black Students Led Swift Changes To History Curriculum Kimberly Grayson took her high schoolers to the African American history museum in D.C. When students pressed their white teachers to take the same trip, a revised history curriculum quickly followed. Ailsa Chang
NBCUniversal Head Explains His 50% Diversity Challenge NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Cesar Conde, chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, about the 50% challenge he announced for diversifying hiring and training at the news organization.
Why Memes Around Breonna Taylor's Death Are Not Doing Her Story Any Justice NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with pop culture critic Cate Young about the proliferation of memes around Breonna Taylor's death and how many disregard Taylor and her story.
Notre Dame University Hires First Black Woman Head Coach Once the new college basketball season begins, Niele Ivey will become Notre Dame's first Black woman head coach of its basketball program.
Veteran Educator On The Endless But 'Joyful' Work Of Creating Anti-Racist Education Pirette McKamey, the principal at Mission High School in San Francisco, says anti-racist education "makes you want to keep growing and changing and doing better by your students." Ailsa Chang
Is It Enough To Remove Words With Racist Connotations From Tech Language? Hint: No NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Web developer Caroline Karanja about how the terms "master" and "slave" are used in the industry and how they reflect a bigger issue in U.S. culture.
NYC Begins Painting Black Lives Matter Mural In Front Of Trump Tower President Trump derided the mural plan last week, saying it would be "denigrating this luxury Avenue" and antagonize the city's police as "a symbol of hate." Laurel Wamsley
Effective Anti-Racist Education Requires More Diverse Teachers, More Training Travis Bristol, an assistant professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley, explains how teacher training and the presence of Black teachers can help reshape education. Ailsa Chang
Black Man Speaks On Being Attacked, Threatened With A Noose In Bloomington, Ind. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Vauhxx Booker, a Black activist in Bloomington, Ind., about experiencing what he describes as an attempted lynching and authorities' response to the incident.
We Are Repeating Discrimination Experiment Every Day, Educator Says NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jane Elliott, who created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom experiment in 1968 to teach students about racism. It was so enlightening, she repeated it for decades.