An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed The Emancipation and Freedom Monument — two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant newly freed from slavery — will be unveiled in Richmond, the former Confederate capital. Deepa Shivaram
What Lorde's Te Reo Maori Songs Mean For The Effort To Revive The Language Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language. Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
What Top Film Schools Are Doing To Help Diversify Hollywood The U.S.'s top film schools are prioritizing a diverse student body. The demand for better representation on screen and behind the camera requires a talent pipeline from film schools. Mandalit del Barco
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
'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.
'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
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
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
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
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