/tags/systemic-racism systemic racism en-US Copyright Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:30:09 GMT /2021-03-12/minneapolis-reaches-27-million-settlement-with-family-of-george-floyd Minneapolis will pay a record sum to the family of George Floyd, who sued the city and police officers over his May 2020 death in police custody. Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:30:09 GMT /2021-03-12/minneapolis-reaches-27-million-settlement-with-family-of-george-floyd Rachel Treisman /wunc-updates/2020-09-11/wunc-commits-to-anti-racism Black lives matter. ¹ĻÉńapp believes this because it is true, and truth fuels what we do at North Carolina Public Radio.¹ĻÉńapp does not believe that sayingā€¦ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:59:43 GMT /wunc-updates/2020-09-11/wunc-commits-to-anti-racism ¹ĻÉńapp /news/2020-07-24/police-traffic-stops-decline-racial-disparities-persist Across the state, police traffic stops have dropped, but for white drivers they've declined twice as fast as for Black drivers.That's according to a trendā€¦ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:34:40 GMT /news/2020-07-24/police-traffic-stops-decline-racial-disparities-persist Jason deBruyn /race-demographics/2020-07-23/new-study-reveals-economic-drivers-behind-the-sterilization-of-black-north-carolinians Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina officials sterilized an estimated 7,600 people, many by force or coercion. The stateā€™s eugenics program targetedā€¦ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:51:45 GMT /race-demographics/2020-07-23/new-study-reveals-economic-drivers-behind-the-sterilization-of-black-north-carolinians Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /race-demographics/2020-06-16/ronnie-pepper-wants-you-to-eat-your-broccoli-and-confront-ingrained-racism When Ronnie Pepper was a kid, his mother told him he could not be the president or an astronaut. Though she did not say it aloud, Pepper understood thatā€¦ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:55:42 GMT /race-demographics/2020-06-16/ronnie-pepper-wants-you-to-eat-your-broccoli-and-confront-ingrained-racism Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-16/ronnie-pepper-wants-you-to-eat-your-broccoli-and-confront-ingrained-racism When Ronnie Pepper was a kid, his mother told him he could not be the president or an astronaut. Though she did not say it aloud, Pepper understood thatā€¦ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:55:42 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-16/ronnie-pepper-wants-you-to-eat-your-broccoli-and-confront-ingrained-racism Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /podcast/podcast-wuncpolitics/2020-06-05/a-week-of-civil-unrest As protests took place across North Carolina and the nation, calling for justice after the killing of George Floyd, President Donald Trump called for aā€¦ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:49:51 GMT /podcast/podcast-wuncpolitics/2020-06-05/a-week-of-civil-unrest Jeff Tiberii /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has beenā€¦ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has beenā€¦ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2018-05-31/what-is-your-body-worth Artist MonĆ©t Noelle Marshall has been working intensely on a new three-part performance art project: ā€œBuy It Call It.ā€ It explores the price people put onā€¦ Thu, 31 May 2018 16:15:21 GMT /arts-culture/2018-05-31/what-is-your-body-worth Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio