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1 week ago | npr.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Christina Cala | +3 more

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1249592902/1269263884" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Jess Kung |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada |Christina Cala |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López | +3 more

In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1248091511/1269226329" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights — from being a key figure in the Stonewall Riots in 1969 to an organizer in the HIV-AIDS crisis in the 1990s.

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Dalia Mortada |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Jess Kung | +3 more

Why now is the time to find power in "otherness" Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1246593561/1269194559" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Hopper Stone/Harvard University Press Hopper Stone/Harvard University Press Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old.

1 month ago | npr.org | Sergio Martínez-Beltrán |Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Courtney Stein |Dalia Mortada |Luis Trelles | +5 more

Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador : Code Switch One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal system to make good on its promise, starting with the story of one family trying to find their 18-year-old son after immigration agents showed up at their doorstep.

1 month ago | npr.org | Brittany Luse |Alexis Williams |Barton Girdwood |Neena Pathak |Veralyn Williams

Crunchy conservatives want to 'Make America Healthy Again' Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1263527071/1268927487" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Who are the crunchy conservatives? Getty Images / pixabay hide caption toggle caption Getty Images / pixabay Who are the crunchy conservatives?