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  Road to Rickwood: The Holy Grail of Baseball : Throughline

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  Birmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights Movement. And in order to understand the struggle, you don't have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball stadium in the country. Over more than a century it's hosted Negro League baseball, a women's …

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  How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family : Code Switch

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  Content Warning: This episode contains racial slurs and discusses police brutality. This week we're bringing you the first episode in a new series called Inheriting, created in collaboration with our friends at LAist Studios. In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with Asian American and …

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  How well did the Civil Rights Act live up to its promise? : Consider This from NPR

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  In the summer of 1963, an estimated quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington. It was where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic 'I have a dream' speech. And listening in the crowd was civil rights activist Cortland Cox. Cox was a founding member of …

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  Med schools face a new obstacle in the push to train more Black doctors

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  JACKSON, Miss. — Jerrian Reedy was 9 when his father was admitted to the hospital in Hattiesburg, about two hours northeast of New Orleans, after sustaining three gunshot wounds. Reedy recalled visiting his dad in the intensive care unit that summer in 2009, even though children weren’t typically …

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  July 1 laws taking effect in states across the country

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  Starting today in Kansas, providers are supposed to ask patients why they are getting an abortion. A Florida law goes into effect allowing people who shoot bears on their property a "Stand Your Ground" type defense. It's July 1, so states across the country are putting laws into effect. From …

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  The legacy — and efficacy — of the Civil Rights Act on its 60th anniversary

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  NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lerone Martin, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.