Google Researcher Discusses Departure Timnit Gebru talks to Steve Inskeep about her departure from Google after raisng questions about gender, race and the ethics behind artificial intelligence.
Google Employees Demand Company Rehire Black Scientist Who Spoke Up About Diversity Inside Google, tensions are growing weeks after the company fired a high-profile Black researcher. Questions are still simmering about whether Google can tolerate dissent and criticism. Bobby Allyn
After 100 Years, MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League' Major League Baseball has finally decided that players from the Negro Leagues should be considered Major Leaguers. All 3,400 players — from 1920 to 1948 — will be elevated to MLB status. Tom Goldman
MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League' — Correcting A 'Longtime Oversight' "All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game's finest players, innovations and triumphs against the backdrop of injustice," said the MLB commissioner. Brakkton Booker
Pastor Of Black Church Defaced In Protests: 'An Assault On Our Historical Resolve' Black Lives Matters signs from two historic Black churches were destroyed. William Lamar IV says his congregation will keep its "desire to make this nation what it claims to be, but never has been." Laurel Wamsley
Cleveland Baseball Team Will Drop Controversial Name To 'Unify Our Community' The franchise is the second major sports team to abandon a longtime name widely seen as racist or culturally offensive. The NFL's Washington Football Team was the first to do so. Jaclyn Diaz
Sen. Mike Lee Blocks Legislation For Latino, Women's Museums In a move that infuriated supporters of museums to be dedicated to Latinos and women on the National Mall, the Republican senator blocked legislation Thursday that would lead to the creation of both. Elizabeth Blair
Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says Researchers found census records showing the entrepreneur and philanthropist owned slaves as late as 1850, contrary to the long-held belief that his family freed all slaves when he was a boy. Jaclyn Diaz
Importance Of Diversity Among The Highest Ranks Of The Military NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with retired Lt. Gen. Stephen Twitty about what retired Gen. Lloyd Austin's nomination as defense secretary means for diversity within the Pentagon.
Police Departments Try To Walk The Line Between Reform, Public Safety Minneapolis and other cities promised to cut police funding following this summer's racial justice protests, but rising violent crime has complicated efforts to overhaul police departments. Martin Kaste