Race: Conversations around race and racial justice

Here are the latest on the fight against racism, voices calling for racial justice and in-depth stories on communities of color and other racial issues from MPR News.

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September 3, 2020 4:00 AM

Trump's base is shrinking as whites without a college degree continue to decline

Whites without a college degree have gone from 45 percent of eligible voters in 2016 to 41 percent, per a Brookings Institution and NPR analysis. Meanwhile, whites with a degree and Latinos are on the rise.

by Domenico Montanaro

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September 3, 2020 1:00 AM

APM Reports documentary: Black at Mizzou — Confronting race on campus

In 2015, Lauren Brown left her mostly Black neighborhood in Chicago for the University of Missouri. Moving to a predominantly white college was a huge shock, made even more difficult by the racial harassment she faced that fall. That same semester, the campus erupted in protests that made international news. Brown is the host of this APM Reports documentary, “Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus.”

by MPR News Staff

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September 2, 2020 5:41 PM

Kenosha officials lift curfew, citing 'relatively peaceful' recent protests

Officials enacted a nightly curfew in response to unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake last weekend, and had previously said it would continue until Labor Day.

by Rachel Treisman

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September 2, 2020 4:12 PM

African Americans have disparate rates of colon cancer

A recent study from the American Journal of Pathology found "African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer of any ethnic group in the United States." Dr. Renée Crichlow talks about some contributing factors.

by Tom Crann

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September 2, 2020 6:40 AM

Kenosha protests, violence expose racial disparities among the worst in the country

Kenosha residents lament the violence and destruction that left swaths of their city damaged or destroyed, but many understand the anger over biased policing and wide racial inequities that led to it.

by Becky Sullivan and David Schaper

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September 2, 2020 6:27 AM

Fact check: Trump misstates what happened in Kenosha

President Donald Trump is giving an account at odds with the authorities who charged Kyle Rittenhouse with homicide. Trump also falsely claimed credit for National Guard deployments that he actually did not authorize. Wisconsin's Democratic governor did.

by The Associated Press

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September 1, 2020 5:49 AM

Tensions high as Donald Trump visits Kenosha

President Donald Trump dove into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Wis., over the objections of local leaders.

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September 1, 2020 1:00 AM

NPR Special Report: "The Summer of Racial Reckoning: Part 2"

NPR Special Report: “The Summer of Racial Reckoning.” Part 2.

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August 31, 2020 8:46 PM

Trump defends Kenosha shooting suspect

The president on Monday painted the accused 17-year-old Kenosha shooter's actions as possible self-defense, saying, without evidence, that the teenager "probably would have been killed."

by Alana Wise

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August 31, 2020 2:11 PM

Remembering civil rights activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman of Anoka

Most Minnesotans don't know that a Black woman who grew up in Anoka — Anna Arnold Hedgeman — was the only woman on the organizing committee for the 1963 March on Washington. She was a longtime activist for civil rights and social justice — but has been mostly forgotten. 2018 History Forum lecture by Thomas Sugrue of NYU about her and other civil rights activists in the north.

by MPR News Staff

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