Ailsa Chang
Stories
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Health
HBCU President: 'I Slept Better' After Deciding On All Online Classes In The Fall
Colette Pierce Burnette of Huston-Tillotson University says keeping students and staff safe was paramount. Black people are dying from COVID-19 at two and a half times the rate of white people.
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Science
Why We Grow Numb To Staggering Statistics — And What We Can Do About It
The growing coronavirus death toll doesn't provoke the same type of emotional response that a plane crash might. It's a coping mechanism and how our neurons are wired, says psychologist Elke Weber.
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National
Los Angeles Launches $103 Million Program To Offer Relief To Renters
LA City Council President Nury Martinez says the city's new program will provide subsidies of up to $2,000 to some 50,000 families. More than 100,000 people applied the first day.
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National
Denver School Principal On How Black Students Led Swift Changes To History Curriculum
Kimberly Grayson took her high schoolers to the African American history museum in D.C. When students pressed their white teachers to take the same trip, a revised history curriculum quickly followed.
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Education
Veteran Educator On The Endless But 'Joyful' Work Of Creating Anti-Racist Education
Pirette McKamey, the principal at Mission High School in San Francisco, says anti-racist education "makes you want to keep growing and changing and doing better by your students."
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National
Effective Anti-Racist Education Requires More Diverse Teachers, More Training
Travis Bristol, an assistant professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley, explains how teacher training and the presence of Black teachers can help reshape education.
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Education
Why U.S. Schools Are Still Segregated — And One Idea To Help Change That
Rebecca Sibilia, founder of EdBuild, says a Supreme Court case shaped a funding model for public schools that reinforces inequity. She tells All Things Considered about a new model that could help.
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Music
Teyana Taylor On 'The Album' And Asserting Her Creative Vision
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Teyana Taylor about The Album, her anticipated follow-up to the Kanye West-produced K.T.S.E. that features guests like Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Erykah Badu.
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Politics
Arbery Family Lawyer On Trump Meeting: 'He Doesn't Feel Like There's Systemic Racism'
Lee Merritt, a co-counsel for several black families of police violence victims, met with President Trump on Tuesday before he signed an executive order on policing, which Merritt says is not enough.
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Music
Tracee Ellis Ross Can Hit The High Notes, Too
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Tracee Ellis Ross about starring in The High Note, a movie about an over-40 superstar singer navigating the music industry with her assistant, who has her own music dreams.