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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Courts & Law

Plessy v. Ferguson: How racial segregation became law

STEVE LUXENBERG, a former Washington Post editor ...

7 years ago

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Geniah Miller in her Camden Academy Charter High School uniform and the Nigerian head wrap with her mother, Chioma Sullivan, at their Camden home on Feb. 11, 2019, after Miller was sent home from school. (April Saul for WHYY)
Education

Dress code violation sparks racial controversy and conversations at Camden charter school

After an African-American student was punished for wearing an African head wrap, administrators are accused of favoring Hispanic teens at Camden Academy Charter High School.

7 years ago

John Potts is using a total station to map the site. Graves can be seen  as grey-ish stains in the soil. (Jill Showell/Edward Otter, Inc.)
Community

Delaware archaeologists find African-American graves that may date to Civil War

The tombstone of an African-American Civil War soldier — and possible graves of family members — have been discovered in Frankford, Delaware.

7 years ago

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Children play at the Nile Swim Club in Yeadon (Michael D'Onofrio/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Two entrepreneurs donate to save Nile Swim Club

Two entrepreneurs have helped save the historic Nile Swim Club from drowning.

7 years ago

Browne Hall on the quad at Cheyney University
Politics & Policy

Historically black colleges, universities get boost under measure sailing through Congress

Legislation to strengthen the partnership between historically black college and universities is on a fast track to become law.

7 years ago

In this Feb. 21, 2018, file photo, a model wears a creation as part of the Gucci women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy. Gucci, which designed this face warmer, reminiscent of blackface prompted an instant backlash from the public and forced the company to apologize publicly on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (Antonio Calanni/AP Photo)
Community

Retailers, fashion brands struggle with racial insensitivity

Experts say many of these fashion companies live in a sort of bubble and lack the diversity in their staff that could vet their fashions.

7 years ago

Alexsis Rodgers, president of Virginia Young Democrats, is one of the disappointed constituents who worked hard to elect some of the officials at the center of the Virginia controversies. Now, Rodgers says, the state democratic party must develop diverse leaders before there's another crisis. (Sarah McCammon/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Virginia Democrats now look to women of color for leadership

When you talk to Virginia Democrats these days, you hear a lot of words like "disappointing" and "frustrating."

7 years ago

Dramatic decreases in deaths from lung cancer among African-Americans were particularly notable, according to the American Cancer Society. (Siri Stafford/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Racial disparities in cancer incidence and survival rates are narrowing

The report was published online Thursday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

7 years ago

Members of the Hammond Comic Club in blackface, 2nd and Mifflin streets, January 3, 1964.
The Why
Politics & Policy

Washing off blackface: Why a racist practice persists

From minstrels to the mummers, from governors to Gucci, how blackface began and why it keeps coming up.

Air Date: February 14, 2019

Listen 14:58
This image shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor. It's unclear who the people in the picture are, but the rest of the page is filled with pictures of Northam and lists his undergraduate alma mater and other information about him. (Eastern Virginia Medical School via AP)
Community

The backlash to Virginia’s blackface scandal provides insight into Americans views on racism

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam admitted that he wore blackface, and the subsequent backlash has provided insight into Americans views and knowledge of our racist past.

7 years ago

Black Americans were most affected by the 2009 recession. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)
Money
The Conversation

African-Americans’ economic setbacks from the Great Recession are ongoing – and could be repeated

Even today, a decade since the Great Recession hit, blacks still haven’t fully recovered and remain in a precarious financial condition.

7 years ago

Midwife Asasiya Muhammad (left) listens to the baby's heart tones on client Dana Ndanu on Feb. 9. Ndanu purposefully sought out an African American midwife after feeling disrespected by staff members while delivering her first two children in a hospital. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
Health

One of the few black midwives in Philadelphia wants to give women of color more healthcare options

Black women have higher rates of birth complications at hospitals because doctors often don’t believe their pain.

7 years ago

This image shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor. It's unclear who the people in the picture are, but the rest of the page is filled with pictures of Northam and lists his undergraduate alma mater and other information about him. (Eastern Virginia Medical School via AP)
Radio Times
Community

Blackface: Past and present

The revelation that elected officials in Virginia had at one point worn or endorsed blackface has caused us to grapple with its history.

Air Date: February 12, 2019

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Summer Campbell (from left), Geovanny Mejia and Justin Daniels, students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, Va., are talking about the recent scandals unfolding at their state Capitol. (Megan Pauly/WCVE)
NPR
Community

Richmond students on Northam: ‘He should have known not to do this’

The situation around the top elected officials in Richmond, Va., is perplexing to many, including students and teachers in the state. Some are seizing the moment to discuss.

7 years ago

Brittany Williams, a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, started taking Truvada when she began dating a man living with HIV. Even though the relationship ended, she continues to take it. (Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR)
NPR
Health

To halt HIV, advocates push for PrEP outreach to black women

About 1.1 million Americans are at high risk for HIV and could benefit from PrEP, according to the CDC. Around half of those are black men and women.

7 years ago

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