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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

    A Decade Of Watching Black People Die

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    12May 31st, 202022m 4s
    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 s
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  2. The Indicator from Planet Money

    Racism And Economics

    1Jun 2nd, 20209m 6s
    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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  3. Throughline

    American Police

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    1Jun 4th, 20201h 2m
    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 tensi
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  4. Fresh Air

    The 'Unresolved Legacy' Of Reconstruction

    1Jun 5th, 202048m 33s
    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 iss
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  5. Latino USA

    Dispatch From Atlanta's Nights Of Protests

    1Jun 3rd, 202013m 3s
    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 e
  6. Life Kit

    How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race

    1Jun 4th, 202010m 25s
    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
  7. The Indicator from Planet Money

    Police Unions And Civilian Deaths

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    1Jun 3rd, 20209m 4s
    There appears to be a relationship between police unionization and the number of people killed by officers.
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