BOOK REVIEW: In ‘Nubia: Real One,’ Trying To Be A Hero When Society Thinks You’re A Threat

By NPR News
Nubia: Real One book cover
Nubia: Real One doesn't take place on Wonder Woman's home island Themyscira, but somewhere in modern-day America — though a modern-day America in which superheroes are a real thing. And Nubia is not an adult woman warrior who knows who and what she is (as she did when she first appeared in 1973's Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #204), no. This is McKinney's take on Nubia for real. Read More

Two-Thirds Of Black Americans Don’t Trust The Police To Treat Them Equally. Most Whites Do

By PBS Newshour
A protester stands in front of U.S. Secret Service officers at Lafayette Square near the White House on June 1 after the park was cleared for President Donald Trump's walk to the historic St. John's Church, which sustained minor fire damage during earlier demonstrations.
Nearly half of black Americans have very little or no confidence that police officers in their community treat people with different skin colors the same, according to the latest PBS NewsHour-NPR-Marist poll. But overall, only 18 percent of Americans take that view — an illustration in itself that people of different races are living different realities in the United Read More
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