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In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like.
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Citizen-led boards to review police misconduct would be banned in Iowa cities under a bill advanced Tuesday by Republicans on an Iowa Senate panel.
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The Rhodes Scholarship is a post graduate scholarship that allows students from all over the world to study at The University of Oxford in England.
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Harvey joins the program to talk about her new book, Anti-Racism As Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities and Help Create a Just World.
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This year’s Iowa Artist series at the Des Moines Art Center features the work of b. Robert Moore. The Des Moines-based artist dissects the American experience through a racial, social, spiritual and deeply personal lens in his new exhibit “In Loving Memory.” It’s on display through Oct. 20.
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The African American Museum of Iowa is reopening after an 18-month, $5 million renovation
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Dave Markward spent the last five years interviewing, researching and writing his book From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond, My Journey to Understanding Race in America
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Charity Nebbe speaks with the creator of "The 1619 Project" Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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Organizers of the MLK NOW event discuss challenges Black Iowans face and how to address them. And Brian Lehrer offers a Home State View of frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for his novel about a young enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation on a literal train to freedom.