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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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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 | 
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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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.
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npr.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Christina Cala | +3 more
Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1251284841/1269304826" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> 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.
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wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung
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. And even though eleven people were killed and hundreds were left homeless by the fires, the MOVE bombing has been largely forgotten. How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?
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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.
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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.
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wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Dalia Mortada |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López
Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the moment he understood he was Asian-American. In his latest book, To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other, Nguyen examines the power in finding solidarity with other Others, especially in today's America. Copyright 2025 NPR
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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.
