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The nonprofit North Florida Land Trust announced Friday it's raised the money needed to pay off a loan used to purchase a portion of the Little NaNa Dune System in historic American Beach.

Deep in the heart of Texas, the Kronos Quartet reflects on race relations and social unrest with At War with Ourselves – 400 Years of You, by composer Michael Abels and poet Nikky Finney.

Mississippi, a battleground in the struggle for civil rights, has been slow to embrace its racist past. A new state-funded museum tells the story.

Legislation to create a commission to study reparations faces steep odds in the evenly divided Congress. Advocates want the House to take up the bill, or for President Biden to act on his own.

Republican Matt Krause is asking schools for an accounting of any book that "might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress."

Guests: ALAN LIGHT Editor-in-Chief, Spin magazine Attending the Grammys in Los Angeles February 21, 2001 MICHAEL GREENE President and CEO, The Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences ESTA SOLER Executive Director, Family Violence Prevention Fund CATHY REENA News Media Director, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Some say he's the poster boy for vile entertainment --others claim he's a musical genius. Whatever you thin--of him and his music, there's no question that Eminem is hugely popular. The white rapper has sold almost 10 million copies of his newest CD and was nominated for four Grammy Awards. Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at the controversy over Eminem and the Grammys.

The centerpiece of Copeland's latest album is a song born from the wreckage of the Clotilda — the last known slave ship to smuggle African captives to the United States.

Commentator Robert Franklin says that the pardon controversy has demonstrated to the whole country what the African-American community has always known: You are only entitled to as much justice as you can afford. Money and celebrity tend to distort the process of distributing justice.

Robert Siegel talks with Robert P. Moses about Radical Equations, his new book that translates algebra into common English. Moses is using this method with African American children in the South as part of a contemporary civil rights movement based on education.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on testimony at the New York trial of four men accused of being a part of the bombing attack on U-S embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. An FBI investigator described how one defendant claimed he was supposed to die a martyr's death in the blast. Several African victims told their stories of nearly dying under the rubble.