![Pilar Vega Martinez is using <em>gratuidad</em> to attend the University of Chile to become a nurse. "Without gratuity, I could not have studied. I could not have gone to university. It was my opportunity to go to university," she says.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/01768f4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2785x3713+1392+0/resize/150x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Fnadworny_chile2_d7a0737_v2_slide-b81b516dbfac428c5165c7c6ccc9253854aba7a6.jpg)
Maria Paz Gutierrez
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In 2016, Chile passed gratuidad, or "free college." As the idea gains popularity ahead of the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., Chile offers some lessons from what has happened there.
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The Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.
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In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, which made it illegal to discriminate in housing. Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are still so segregated today.
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament will bring in about $770 million in revenue this year. A writer argues that paying black student-athletes might have unforeseen consequences.
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As Oakland's legal cannabis industry grows, the biggest players seem to have two things in common: They're white, and they have lots of money.
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The unrest in the Motor City a half-century ago this summer left 43 dead. It was one of the most devastating episodes of civil conflict in the 20th century. But was it a riot or a rebellion?