Social Issues

March 5, 2018 7:04 AM

What kids think about bullying and kindness in the Trump era

A national survey of elementary school students asks about kindness as well as cruelty.

by Anya Kamenetz

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March 4, 2018 3:02 PM

Food stall serves up a social experiment: White customers asked to pay more

To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall at which he asked whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?

by Maria Godoy

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March 4, 2018 8:45 AM

Commemoration of 'Bloody Sunday' set in Alabama

A bipartisan group will commemorate 'Bloody Sunday,' the day in 1965 when voting rights protesters were attacked by police as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

by Associated Press

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March 2, 2018 12:11 PM

How segregation shapes fatal police violence

Unarmed black people are much more likely than unarmed whites to be fatally shot by the police. A new study finds that that disparity gets wider in states with more racial segregation.

by Gene Demby

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March 1, 2018 3:47 PM

On-again, off-again deportation flight is off again

The flight, which had been scheduled to return about 100 immigrants to their home countries in Africa, has been postponed for reasons attributed to the weather.

by Riham Feshir

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March 1, 2018 11:11 AM

Patrick Nathan's novel 'Some Hell' and the loneliness of grief

Minneapolis writer Patrick Nathan's first novel, "Some Hell" follows a family after the suicide of the father.

by Marianne Combs, Manda Lillie and Elizabeth Shockman

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March 1, 2018 12:00 AM

A Beautiful World: Rebels, Renegades and Wild Women

Women throughout history have broken the rules and stepped outside conventional social norms to make history happen. We investigate several women who stand out as the rebels of their time.

by MPR News Staff

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February 28, 2018 7:51 PM

A brief history of the AR-15

The semi-automatic rifle has been in wide circulation for more than a half-century. In recent years, gunmen have used AR-15-style weapons to carry out many of the country's worst mass shootings.

by Greg Myre

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February 28, 2018 7:46 AM

Report updates landmark 1968 racism study, finds more poverty and segregation

"Whoever thought that 50 years later, we'd still be talking about the same things? That's kinda sad," Kerner Commission member Fred Harris said.

by Karen Grigsby Bates

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February 27, 2018 3:11 PM

Dayton school safety plan to focus on money, mental health

The governor said Tuesday he expects the plan he'll release early next week to include financial support for school districts to shore up building security.

by Brian Bakst

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