Jun 26 Country music reckons with racial stereotypes and its future By Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press The country music industry has been hesitant to talk about its own long and complicated history with race, but the death of George Floyd that sparked rallies all across the country became an issue too important for the genre to… Continue reading
Jun 26 Why poems can be safe spaces during the pandemic By Joshua Barajas In a new anthology, 125 poets write about this moment in real time. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch 3:00 A Brief But Spectacular take on being a 911 dispatcher during COVID-19 Throughout the pandemic, the NewsHour has highlighted courageous front-line workers who are keeping the country running in the face of unprecedented hardship. Bridget Rhodes is one of these essential workers, a 911 dispatcher in Portland, Oregon, who has offered a… Continue watching
Jun 25 Dixie Chicks shorten name to The Chicks in order to 'meet this moment' By Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press The term Dixie refers to Southern U.S. states, especially those that belonged to the Confederacy. Continue reading
Jun 25 Protesters demand removal of statues depicting freed Black American kneeling before Lincoln By William J. Kole, Associated Press Calls are mounting for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed Black American kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet. Continue reading
Jun 25 Disney to change ride tied to Jim Crow film By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Splash Mountain ride at Disney parks in California and Florida is being recast. Disney officials said the ride would no longer be tied to the 1946 movie, “Song of the South," which features many racist stereotypes and Old South… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 6:10 Summer reading lists for young people at a time of crisis By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport Amid dual national crises of a pandemic and outrage over racism and police brutality, books provide opportunities both to learn more and to find distraction from reality. Jeffrey Brown talks to writer Jason Reynolds, the Library of Congress’ ambassador for… Continue watching
Jun 24 Les Crystal, a guiding force behind NewsHour, dies at 85 By Molly Finnegan Over his long career, he stood out to his colleagues as a font of singular kindness, fortitude and grace in the hectic business of daily news. Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 5:58 What the future could hold for these symbols of the American past By Jeffrey Brown As the country faces a moment of reckoning about its treatment of Black Americans and other people of color, the display of memorials, monuments and statues is being reexamined. Some of these symbols are being torn down by protesters, and… Continue watching
Jun 23 How Black bookstore owners see the flood of requests for 'anti-racist' reading By Courtney Vinopal In recent weeks, as national protests have expressed agony and urgency over police killings of Black Americans, Black bookstore proprietors say they have seen titles on race and racism flying off their shelves -- the same books they have been… Continue reading