Politics Aug 19 Trump amplifies attacks on ‘out of control’ Smithsonian museums for including negative parts of American history By Associated Press
Nation Jun 19 Juneteenth celebrations held across U.S. to commemorate the end of slavery The observances on Thursday come even as the Trump administration has been removing content about African American history from federal websites. By Holly Ramer, Associated Press
Nation May 28 Harvard ends legal battle over early photos of enslaved people, agrees to relinquish images A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history with a woman who says she is one of the subjects' descendants. By Leah Willingham, Associated Press
Nation Mar 28 Watch 10:45 Migrants in U.S. legally and with no criminal history caught up in Trump crackdown President Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in the country’s history. As his Homeland Security Department works to deport more people, immigrants with legal status or no criminal history are being detained and deported. We hear from three people… By Laura Barrón-López, Doug Adams, Ian Couzens, Leila Jackson
Politics Mar 24 LISTEN: Supreme Court appears divided in case over gerrymandering and race in Louisiana The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. By Mark Sherman, Sara Cline, Associated Press
Mar 07 War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge By Tara Copp, Lolita C. Baldor, Kevin S. Vineys, Associated Press References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as… Continue reading
Nov 25 Florida woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting neighbor By Curt Anderson, Associated Press Susan Lorincz, who is white, was convicted in August of killing 35-year-old Black woman Ajike “A.J.” Owens during an ongoing dispute over the Owens’ boisterous children. Continue reading
Nov 05 PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds reshaping of support along racial lines By Matt Loffman In our latest poll, Donald Trump leads Harris 54 percent to 45 percent among white voters, but her 9-point deficit is a slight improvement over the 12-point advantage Trump had with this group in 2020. Harris instead has seen some… Continue reading
Oct 03 How Black leaders in New York are grappling with the bribery charges against Eric Adams By Aaron Morrison, Matt Brown, Associated Press Some Black leaders now fear that Adams' indictment may tarnish the broader political representation that was achieved. Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch 6:40 Danzy Senna’s ‘Colored Television’ spotlights difficult realities of life with humor By Jeffrey Brown, Lena I. Jackson The new novel, “Colored Television” uses fiction and satire to spotlight sensitive and often difficult realities in American life. Jeffrey Brown discussed that with author Danzy Senna for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. Continue watching