Florida’s new election law includes tough restrictions on groups that conduct voter registration drives. The rules are forcing those groups to change tactics, and appear to be having an impact on the number of people registering to vote in November’s general election.
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152517589/in-florida-registering-voters-a-whole-new-game
Over a month after the shooting death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin, the small town of Sanford, Florida remains on edge.
In this conversation we speak with Mayor Jeff Triplett about how his town of 54,000 has held together through a nationally publicized tragedy. We also turn to Farai Chideya, blogger at Farai.com, to discuss the current state of the media’s national coverage of the narrative and characters playing out in this sensitive news story.
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In light of the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Steve Inskeep speaks with writer Donna Britt and her sons Justin and Darrell Britt-Gibson about how she prepared them as young black men for a world that might view them with suspicion.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/22/149126015/a-moms-advice-to-her-young-black-sons
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In 1953, A.P. Tureaud Jr. enrolled as a freshman at Louisiana State University, becoming the school’s first and only black undergraduate that year. Tureaud’s family had filed a lawsuit on his behalf. And as he recalls it, life on campus was anything but easy.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/21/141549627/life-as-a-symbol-of-integration-in-college?ft=1
Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother when she was abducted at gunpoint and gang raped by a group of white men in Alabama in 1944. An activist named Rosa Parks was sent to investigate the attack. Taylor’s case, and a number of others like hers, helped spark the civil rights movement. Danielle Lynn McGuire explores the story and the pattern of racist, sexual assaults on black women, in her book, "At the Dark End of the Street". In Tell Me More’s weekly "Behind Closed Doors" conversation, host Michel Martin speaks with the author as well as with rape survivor, Recy Taylor.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134131369