How journalist Michele Norris got 500,000 people to open up about race
“Our Hidden Conversations” is the culmination of an unprecedented project 14 years in the making. The result: an audiobook that feels like eavesdropping on America.
America
The Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action. What will happen without it?
Fifty years ago, President Kennedy instituted affirmative action policies, which opened doors in employment and education for people of color; Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, further opening doors. Now for education, the doors are closing.
Listens on the identity, history, and future of the American South
Steeped in the region's multilayered cultural history, the storytelling tradition of the American South is as rich and lyrical as it is deeply complex.