ESPN anchor Sage Steele is off the air after her comments on vaccines and Obama On a podcast, Steele called vaccine mandates "sick" and "scary" and questioned why former President Barack Obama identifies as Black even though he was raised by his white mother. Joe Hernandez
Senators discuss their proposal that would repair the infrastructure of HBCUS and NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Senators Chris Coons, D-Del., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., about their proposed act which would update the infrastructure of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Jason Fuller
Museum tracing legacy of slavery in America marks moment for 'truth-telling' NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the newly expanded "Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration."
How the Coast Guard's 1st Black woman pilot helped give the next one her wings Jeanine Menze was discouraged from pursuing her dream to fly planes when she didn't see any women of color in the field. Then she met La'Shanda Holmes. "When I met you, I saw myself," Menze told her. Eleanor Vassili
Communities In Canada Plan More Scans For Remains Of Indigenous Children The discovery of hundreds of graves at now-shuttered residential schools for Indigenous children has opened a new chapter in Canada's treatment of its First Nations. Emma Jacobs
A Calif. Beach Was Seized From Black Owners In 1924. Now, The Family Will Get It Back Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to sign a bill Thursday that will return a plot of beachfront land along the Southern California coast to the family of a Black couple who lost it to eminent domain. Joe Hernandez
This New Canadian Holiday Reflects On The Legacy Of Indigenous Residential Schools The holiday commemorates the roughly 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken from their families and forced to attend boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society. Rachel Treisman
The Kerner Commission's Last Living Member: We Still Need To Talk About Racism Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in America. Its groundbreaking report blamed racism.
Tiny Desk Teams Up With Alt.Latino This Month NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre about their Alt.Latino Tiny Desk takeover for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories Erika Marie Rivers created the Our Black Girls website to shine a light on Black girls and women who have gone missing or were murdered, a demographic that gets disproportionately less media coverage. Sharon Pruitt-Young