Karen Grigsby Bates

Karen Grigsby Bates appears in the following:

A Child Of Slavery Who Taught A Generation

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Anna J. Cooper was a remarkable student and, later, a legendary teacher and principal of the first public high school for black students.

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Claude Sitton, 'Dean Of The Race Beat,' Dies At 89

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

It may be that Claude Fox Sitton so outraged the white Southern segregationists he reported on throughout the civil rights movement because, by all appearances, he could have been standing beside them instead of writing about them in the New York Times.

Known as "the dean of the race beat," ...

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A 'Black Tax' At Charlotte's Ritz-Carlton?

Thursday, March 05, 2015

A Charlotte news station reported on Monday that the Ritz-Carlton, one of prosperous uptown Charlotte's swankiest hotels, added what looks suspiciously like a black tax to the lobby bar tabs of patrons in town last week for the CIAA, the popular mega-tournament for basketball teams at historically black colleges ...

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In Hollywood, MLK Delivered A Lesser-Known Speech That Resonates Today

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Los Angeles and spoke to a standing room-only crowd at Temple Israel. The synagogue honors his legacy by replaying the speech once a year.

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Struggling Writer's Debut Novel Gets Coveted Oprah Winfrey Nod

Monday, February 23, 2015

Oprah Winfrey has named Ruby, a novel about a beautiful, abused woman in Texas, as her March book club selection. That could make first-time novelist Cynthia Bond into a literary star.

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Style Over Substance: How Clothes Can Work For And Against Us

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

New York city's first lady, Chirlane McCray, is being publicly dressed down for not dressing up enough when she attended the funeral of slain NYPD officer Wenjian Liu on Sunday.

McCray, who is married to Mayor Bill de Blasio, came to the ceremony in a nubby, French blue coat ...

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2014 Remembrances: Honoring Some Exceptional Lives

Thursday, January 01, 2015

As we begin the new year, Code Switch takes a moment to look back at some of the extraordinary, influential and interesting people whom we lost in 2014.

Sam Greenlee

A native Chicagoan, Greenlee drew on his own experiences as one of the first black Foreign Service officers to write ...

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For Hollywood, 'Selma' Is A New Kind Of Civil Rights Story

Saturday, December 27, 2014

The film, about a 1965 voting rights march, stands out for its focus on black characters, including some of the movement's lesser-known organizers, and the way it humanizes Martin Luther King Jr.

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Demand For Audio Books Keeps Penguin Random House Recording

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Audiobooks as we know them have been around for about 25 years. But the form really took off when MP3 players like the iPod came out.

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The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America

Sunday, December 21, 2014

A filmmaker invited white residents of Buffalo, N.Y., to speak candidly about race. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates finds that the results are thought-provoking, often surprising and sometimes disturbing.

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Black Fraternities And Sororities Split On Protest Policy

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday for the 'Justice for All' rally. The demonstration was to protest the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric ...

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'The Banh Mi Handbook': A Guide To A Viet-French Sandwich

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Food writer Andrea Nguyen dives into the story of banh mi, a Vietnamese street sandwich with a French colonial past that's been popping up on menus around the country.

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A Black Cosmetic Company Sells, Or Sells Out?

Friday, October 24, 2014

Carol's Daughter was started to sell products for black women who wear their hair natural. But ever since L'Oréal bought the brand, folks are wondering if it can maintain the loyalty of its customers.

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The Look Of Power: How Women Have Dressed For Success

Monday, October 20, 2014

Just as women were entering the corporate workplace in big numbers, the shapeless power suit emerged. Over time, the "power look" changed. How do women project power in the modern office?

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Comer Cottrell, Creator Of The People's Jheri Curl, Dies At 82

Saturday, October 11, 2014

The 70s and 80s will be remembered by many as the era of disco and Dynasty. But for some of us, those years were marked by the rise of the Jheri Curl. Named for stylist Jheri Redding, the Jheri Curl (and its derivatives) was a two-step permanent process for ethnic ...

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'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing In White America

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

From the time of slavery, some light-skinned African-Americans escaped racism by passing as white. The new book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, explores what they lost.

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Meet The Johnsons, TV's 'Black-ish' Family

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

One new fall TV offering is getting a lot of buzz. Black-ish takes a look a middle-class black suburban family. The show airs in the same month The Cosby Show celebrates its 30th anniversary.

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Obama's Reaction To Ferguson Raises Questions About President's Role

Friday, August 22, 2014

As the situation quiets down in Ferguson, Mo., some political observers are asking why it took President Obama so long to publicly weigh in on events there.

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Pentagon Does About-Face On Hair Regulations — Black Women Approve

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

When the Army issued updated grooming rules this spring, many black military women were offended and dismayed. The natural hairstyles many of them favored had been declared illegal: Cornrows were okay, but only if they were no larger in diameter than 1/4 inch (about the size of the diameter of ...

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Versatile Comedian Robin Williams Dies At 63

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Williams became a household name in 1978 starring in the TV sitcom Mork & Mindy. He went on to appear in films such as Good Morning Vietnam and Good Will Hunting, a role which earned him an Oscar.

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