Biden officials approved proposals for the U.S. census and federal surveys to change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and to add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African."
Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it easier? Or should the language stay as it always has been, defined by many different ways of writing and speaking? We explore this complex, multi-generational fight that's been unfolding in the Lakota Nation, from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.
The Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish leaders, known largely for shared work on Civil Rights in the 1960s, has a complicated legacy--and an uncertain future between these communities.
Pew Research Center found that poverty rates range greatly among Asian American groups. While 6% of Indian Americans live in poverty, the rate is 19% for Burmese Americans.
Police are investigating reported harassment of the University of Utah women's basketball team while staying in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, for the NCAA tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash.
For a decade, Florida lawmakers have debated whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent the legislature and take the issue directly to voters.
During the sentencing, Judge David Carpenter suspended Russell's two six-month sentences, saying it would be a "waste of government resources" to put her in jail for her crime.
With less than 10 days until the release of her new album, Cowboy Carter, the multiple Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter discusses the moment that inspired her to delve into country music.
Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.
"Nothing in this act," the legislation states, ".... May be construed to inhibit or violate the First Amendment rights of any student or employee." But its opponents say it does just that.
This episode is brought to you by our play cousins over at NPR's It's Been A Minute. Brittany Luse chops it up with New Yorker writer and podcast host Vinson Cunningham to discuss his debut novel Great Expectations. It's a period piece that follows the story of a young man working on an election campaign that echoes Obama's 2008 run. Brittany and Vinson discuss American politics as a sort of religion - and why belief in politics has changed so much in the last decade.
In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.
Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day
