/tags/race race en-US Copyright Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:00:50 GMT /npr-news/npr-news/2022-10-31/can-race-play-a-role-in-college-admissions-the-supreme-court-hears-the-arguments The justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents. Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:00:50 GMT /npr-news/npr-news/2022-10-31/can-race-play-a-role-in-college-admissions-the-supreme-court-hears-the-arguments Nina Totenberg /race-and-ethnicity/2021-06-12/u-s-farmers-of-color-were-about-to-get-loan-forgiveness-now-the-program-is-on-hold A new federal program created by the Biden administration to reverse years of economic discrimination against U.S. farmers of color has ground to a halt. Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:01:30 GMT /race-and-ethnicity/2021-06-12/u-s-farmers-of-color-were-about-to-get-loan-forgiveness-now-the-program-is-on-hold Joe Hernandez /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-08-26/advice-on-race-talk-from-biracial-family Conversations about race are not always comfortable in America, but it's clearly necessary to have them. Rogue Valley residents Mike and Emily Green… Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:33:40 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-08-26/advice-on-race-talk-from-biracial-family The ŔĎ·ň×Ó´«Ă˝ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-25/tko-getting-out-of-a-tough-neighborhood-using-survival-math Portland was a gritty place growing up, from the perspective of Mitchell S. Jackson. He was constantly calculating what it would take for him to get out… Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:24:34 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-25/tko-getting-out-of-a-tough-neighborhood-using-survival-math The ŔĎ·ň×Ó´«Ă˝ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-03-13/the-report-on-black-riots-that-called-out-white-racism For a "post-racial" society, we sure talk about race a lot. And not for the first time. 50 years ago, a commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson… Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:13:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-03-13/the-report-on-black-riots-that-called-out-white-racism Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-18/exchange-exemplar-civil-rights-struggles-in-the-north The images are seared into the American consciousness: fire hoses in Birmingham, nightsticks in Selma. The South was the center of the civil rights… Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:53:12 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-18/exchange-exemplar-civil-rights-struggles-in-the-north Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-12/curious-civil-rights-and-black-power-in-history A special edition of our "Curious" segment is geared to the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday. University of Oregon associate professor… Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:48:48 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-12/curious-civil-rights-and-black-power-in-history Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-12-26/grants-pass-sees-uptick-in-racist-messages Racism has flared anew in our country in recent years. Parts of our region were hospitable to racists, including Klan members, nearly a century ago. But… Tue, 26 Dec 2017 18:32:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-12-26/grants-pass-sees-uptick-in-racist-messages Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-12-14/exchange-exemplar-stella-by-starlight Sharon Draper inherited the last of her grandmother's journals from her own childhood. And what Sharon read in that journal became a central part of her… Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:34:32 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-12-14/exchange-exemplar-stella-by-starlight Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-11-03/the-disease-of-racial-inequality-in-medicine Medicine is a science... a body is a body, and approaches to treatment are supposed to be roughly the same from patient to patient. But bias creeps into… Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:26:59 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2017-11-03/the-disease-of-racial-inequality-in-medicine Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich