Communities In Canada Plan More Scans For Remains Of Indigenous Children The discovery of hundreds of graves at now-shuttered residential schools for Indigenous children has opened a new chapter in Canada's treatment of its First Nations. Emma Jacobs
A Calif. Beach Was Seized From Black Owners In 1924. Now, The Family Will Get It Back Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to sign a bill Thursday that will return a plot of beachfront land along the Southern California coast to the family of a Black couple who lost it to eminent domain. Joe Hernandez
This New Canadian Holiday Reflects On The Legacy Of Indigenous Residential Schools The holiday commemorates the roughly 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken from their families and forced to attend boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society. Rachel Treisman
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.
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.
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
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. Jason Fuller
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
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
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