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2 days ago | 
knpr.org | Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada
Trans people are major targets of the second Trump administration. But in a way, that's nothing new; trans people have been fighting for their rights, dignity, and liberation for generations. So on this episode, we hear from trans elders about what their lives have looked like over the decades, and what messages they have for young people.
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2 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada
Trans people are major targets of the second Trump administration. But in a way, that's nothing new; trans people have been fighting for their rights, dignity, and liberation for generations. So on this episode, we hear from trans elders about what their lives have looked like over the decades, and what messages they have for young people.
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3 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada |Christina Cala |Xavier Lopez | +4 more
Horowhenua-Kāpiti Rugby Union can all rugby this Saturday after referee abusedThe Horowhenua-Kāpiti Rugby Union has followed through with its threat to cancel all rugby for the weekend after a referee was so seriously abused he …
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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |B.A. Parker |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein
In recent months we've seen the Trump administration punishing speech critical of Israel in its widening effort to combat what it sees as antisemitism. As protestors have been detained for pro-Palestinian activism, we've seen attacks on Jews and people expressing concern for Israeli hostages in Gaza — and in the wake of all this, a lot Jews don't agree on which actions constitutive antisemitism.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Gene Demby |B.A. Parker |Christina Cala |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Xavier Lopez | +3 more
NowAs USAID pulls back, the stage is set for a high-stakes debate at the Human Rights Festival. What does the USAID withdrawal mean for young Africans? Could Africa's greatest opportunity come from a funding crisis?
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1 month ago | 
tpr.org | Christina Cala |Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein
About 1 in 10 restaurants in the United States serve Mexican cuisine. That hunger for chalupas, tacos and more in the U.S. has been longstanding — from the conquistadors' love affair with chocolate, to the classic San Francisco burrito. This week, we're exploring the history of Mexican food in the United States, and asking what it takes for a cuisine to become quintessentially "American." Copyright 2025 NPR Arts & Culture tacosTop StoriesNational Stories
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Christina Cala |Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein
About 1 in 10 restaurants in the United States serve Mexican cuisine. That hunger for chalupas, tacos and more in the U.S. has been longstanding — from the conquistadors' love affair with chocolate, to the classic San Francisco burrito. This week, we're exploring the history of Mexican food in the United States, and asking what it takes for a cuisine to become quintessentially "American."
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |Christina Cala
We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this episode, Dr. Andrea Deyrup breaks it down for us, and unpacks the problems she sees with practicing race-based medicine, from delayed diagnoses to ignoring environmental factors that lead to different health outcomes.
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |Christina Cala |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López | +4 more
How race science shows up at the doctor's office Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1252663591/1269335873" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The false notion of "biological race" is still sometimes used as a diagnostic tool in medicine. Why?
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung
Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voters — who remain the Democrats' most loyal supporters. That friction is especially pronounced in the majority Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan, and its majority Black neighbor, Detroit. This week, we go to a testy iftar dinner in Dearborn, where Arab and Black folks sat down to begin having tough conversations about how to move forward.
