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NPR Podcasts Tackling Race, Injustice, and Police Brutality

Here are some of the podcast episodes that NPR has released this week to help us make sense of what's going on around the U.S. This list is ongoing and we will continue to add to it as episodes are published.

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Created June 05, 2020

Updated November 15, 2021

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  1. Code Switch

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    A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
    May 31st, 2020
    The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar — so familiar, in fact, that their details have begun to echo each other.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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    SocietyCultureNews

  2. The Indicator from Planet Money

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    Racism And Economics
    Jun 2nd, 2020
    The coronavirus pandemic has been called "the great equalizer." But in fact, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected African Americans in all kinds of ways.

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    BusinessNewsFinance

  3. Throughline

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    American Police
    Jun 4th, 2020
    Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centu...

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    HistorySocietyCulture

  4. Fresh Air

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    The 'Unresolved Legacy' Of Reconstruction
    Jun 5th, 2020
    In the period after the Civil War, former slaves were made promises of equality and citizenship by the federal government. Historian Eric Foner analyzes the fate of those promises and how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current issues around voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery. Hi...

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    ArtsBooksSociety

  5. Latino USA

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    Dispatch From Atlanta's Nights Of Protests
    Jun 3rd, 2020
    It's been over a week since the death of George Floyd – a black man in handcuffs who died after being suffocated under the knee of a white officer in Minneapolis. Since Floyd's death, protests have erupted all over the country, calling for an end to police brutality on black citizens. One of the cities where residents ...

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    SocietyCulture

  6. Life Kit

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    How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race
    Jun 4th, 2020
    NPR's Michel Martin talks with Jennifer Harvey, author of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, about how to talk with white kids about racially charged events — and how to keep the conversation going. If you're a white (or nonblack) parent, don't wait for your kids to bring up the topi...

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    EducationBusinessHealth

  7. The Indicator from Planet Money

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    Police Unions And Civilian Deaths
    Jun 3rd, 2020
    There appears to be a relationship between police unionization and the number of people killed by officers.

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    BusinessNewsFinance

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