Black Lives Matter

The Talk of Iowa Book Club has been reading the young adult novel The Hate U Give, one of the most banned books in the United States, including in Iowa.

Trans girls banned from girls' sports. Racial disparities in cancer rates. And new music for the weekend.

A group in Dubuque is raising money for a monument memorializing a Black man who was murdered in 1840 by a group of men.

Ben Kieffer talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and creator of "The 1619 Project," Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Today is the first day back to school for students in Sioux City. For the first time in years, there will be a completely new boundary map that determines which school students go to. Also, teachers and administrators have to comply with a new state law. The law limiting some lessons on race may pose a new challenge to a district trying to diversify its schools.

An Iowa panel voted Monday to settle a lawsuit and pay five protesters who supported the Black Lives Matter movement and alleged constitutional rights violations when they were banned from the state Capitol grounds.

Plenty of Juneteenth celebrations are planned across Iowa this month. An historic neighborhood in Des Moines will be celebrating a bit differently this year.

In this author Q & A, Iowa City poet Caleb Rainey talks about his decision to become "The Negro Artist" - a spoken word performer.

A preview of "Juneteenth: The Movement," a special holiday concert produced by IPR, xBk and Iowa PBS.

A seven-person crew within BLM Louisville cooks and delivers hundreds of meals every week to the elderly and homeless, and the group is also working to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among Black residents.