To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, we explore what race means in the 21st ... Powerful Responses to “The Race Issue”—and Send Us Your Own See the ...

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She finished the race with roughly 500,000 followers ... A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.