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With goals to bring more people of color into local newsrooms and produce reporting that fills coverage gaps and reaches new audiences, four National Public Radio (NPR) affiliates are recruiting reporters for a two-year project facilitated by NPR and backed with a $450,000 CPB grant. Although the initiative intends to recruit journalists of color, anyone can […]

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During an NPR Weekend Addition interview, Bill Cosby, 77, refused to answer host Scott Simon’s questions about recently, reemerged rape allegations against America’s Dad. RELATED:…

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She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of the first black president, and searching for a new way to engage and listen, Norris printed 200 postcards asking people […]

As we recall the civil rights gains that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked so hard for, noted legal scholar Michelle Alexander claims there’s still a long way to go before blacks achieve true social equality. SEE ALSO: Will Obama Outsmart Everyone? In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, […]

Lauryn Hill is set to return to the stage next month for the Rock The Bells tour, but in a rare interview with National Public Radio, she speaks about why she left music in the first place. “There were a number of different reasons,” she says. “But partly, the support system that I needed was […]