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Carlisle’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee is hosting community dialogues to talk about race

“Thinking About Race Thursday” listening sessions will be held every second Thursday of the month both in person or virtually.

By Gabriela Martínez/WITF

Slavery By Another Name

Explore the little-known story of the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted into

By Fred Vigeant/WITF

COVID deaths leave thousands of U.S. kids grieving parents or primary caregivers

Roughly 175,000 children in the U.S. have lost one or both parents or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19, according to a new study. The majority come from racial and ethnic minority groups.

By NPR

The 2nd-largest racial group in the U.S. is ‘Some other race.’ Most are Latino

Nearly 50 million people identified with a mysterious, catchall category on the 2020 census. Researchers say that will make it harder to use the data to address racial inequities over the next decade.

By NPR

This new Canadian holiday reflects on the legacy of Indigenous residential schools

The holiday commemorates the roughly 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken from their families and forced to attend boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society.

By NPR

Thriving instead of surviving, Pittsburgh therapist talks Black mental health

For many Black Americans, the past year and a half was particularly traumatizing. 

By Sarah Boden/WESA
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