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<em>What Now</em>, the second solo album from Brittany Howard, is out Feb. 2, 2024.

Brittany Howard is going to make her dreams come true

The Alabama Shakes singer exploded preconceptions with her 2019 solo debut. On What Now, a follow-up born from a few years of life-quaking resets, she's ready to leave any remaining limits behind.

Raquel "Rocky" Tonantzin Aguayo Esquivias grew up swinging in Chicano Park while her mother painted the highway pillars. She now chairs the Aztlán Youth Brigade, leading her generation in taking on the fight their elders began.

50 years after first Chicano Park murals, a younger generation picks up the fight

It’s been 50 years since neighbors first took paintbrushes to the highway pillars in Chicano Park, creating the now-famous murals. KPBS takes a look into the park’s legacy, and its future.

Autherine Lucy Foster (center), the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, waves as the university awarded her an honorary doctorate during a commencement ceremony, on May 3, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all

The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.

Pennsylvania state troopers deploy in Baltimore, Md, on May 1, 2015, following the release of a report on the death of Freddie Gray. Gray, 25, died April 19, 2015 from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody.

Police are 'shielded' from repercussions of their abuse. A law professor examines why

UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz talks about the legal protections — including qualified immunity and no-knock warrants — that have protected officers from the repercussions of abuse.

Sixty years ago, Birmingham authorities turned firehoses and police dogs on protesters, a pivotal period in the civil rights movement. Now, six decades later, people in the Alabama city reflect on the struggle then and now.

60 years since 'The Children's Crusade' changed Birmingham and the nation

The Birmingham movement in 1963 was a turning point when children joined the struggle for equal rights. The brutal response from white segregationists galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act.

JoAnne Bland has been giving tours of Selma, Ala., for more than 30 years. Above, Bland is seen at her home in Selma on Dec. 15.

She made civil rights history in Selma. Now, she guides visitors through its past

JoAnne Bland was 11 when she marched in Selma on March 7, 1965, known today as "Bloody Sunday." Her tours are a window into the violence of that day and her city's role in the fight for civil rights.

Part of a nearly century-old mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco.

When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what stays on the wall

Students of color at a high school, a law school and two universities have objected to the way historical murals have portrayed Native Americans and African Americans.

Gary Gray's liver was failing. But doctors told him he might die waiting for a liver transplant, thanks to a policy change that disadvantaged Kansans and people from some other Southern and Midwestern states.

One man left Kansas for a lifesaving liver transplant — but the problems run deeper

It's harder for people in some Midwestern and Southern states to get liver transplants than it used to be, highlighting inequities in a system that doctors say has always been unfair.

Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court hears case of web designer who doesn't want to work on same-sex weddings

Lorie Smith says Colorado's public accommodations laws violate her right of free speech.

First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan leader

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

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