'Segregation and other forms of systemic racism have had a lasting effect on who visits these national parks today. According to a 2018 study, less than two percent of National park visitors were Black. James Edward Mills , a freelance journalist and the author of The Adventure Gap, Changing the Face of The Outdoors , and Nicole Jackson , a next-generation advisory council member at the National
'Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino joins All Of It to discuss his book, Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy , as part of our series “Protect the Vote”.'
'Sen. Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination. Her education at Howard University , a historically Black university seen as the center of Black intellectual life, helped pave the way.' -- Morning Edition
'On this episode of Making Contact , we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black lives. We'll also meet Trans activists in Louisiana who have been organizing against a state law that has been used to unfairly target trans women for decades.' Making Contact ·
' N. K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated authors in science fiction’s history; the novels of her “Broken Earth” trilogy won the Hugo Award for three consecutive years, a unique achievement. Yet her work has also engendered an ugly backlash from a faction of readers who feel that the recognition of women and authors of color within the industry has been undeserving. Racism in science fiction
'Civil rights leader Floyd McKissick left the Congress of Racial Equality in 1968 to found a new city in North Carolina. McKissick, who had served in the Army during World War II, saw the success of the U.S. Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe and had the idea that government dollars could be used to fix the problems poor Black people were facing in the American South. His project, named Soul City
' Donna Murc h, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, author of Living for the City and the forthcoming collection of essays, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the
