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OJ Simpson's family announced that he died of cancer Wednesday at age 76. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with sports writer Dave Zirin about the contradictions of the football star acquitted of murder.
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Economists sent 83,000 fake job applications to a slew of major U.S. companies, and found that the typical firm favored white applicants over Black ones by around 9%.
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The two only survivors of the Tulsa Massacre more than 100 years ago want to sue for reparations. They hope the Oklahoma Supreme Court will grant them a trial.
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The Cherokee High School Lady Braves basketball team won the North Carolina state championship this year, bringing pride and joy to their tribe and community.
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Nakala Murry spoke exclusively to NPR about a petition that references the May 2023 shooting of Aderrien Murry. She said the move "caught her off guard."
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been the target of racist attacks following last week's Key Bridge collapse.
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Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.
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A fan of both The Beatles and Beyoncé, 82-year-old Melba Pattillo Beals says the song is more special to her than ever. She is one of the Black students who helped desegregate U.S. public schools.
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Sikhs in California will vote in a referendum to push for their own independent state in India
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New checkboxes for "Middle Eastern or North African" and "Hispanic or Latino" are coming to the U.S. census and federal forms. Advocates say these changes will help enforce civil rights protections.