Over the past 32 years, Morning Edition has broadcast a reading of the Declaration of Independence by NPR staff as a way of marking Independence Day. This year, we also offer some historical context.
Decades before Motown, Black Swan Records was the world's first major Black-owned record label. Radio Diaries brings us the story of Harry Pace and the mystery that kept him out of the history books.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: Georgia Republicans have joined the chorus of GOP voices demanding that schools stop teaching so-called critical race theory. But slavery did exist … and so did lynching, Jim Crow laws and often violent measures employed to stop black people from voting. What are the consequences of downplaying or ignoring our past?
The county was first named after a slave-owning former vice president who had no connection to Iowa. Now it will be named for Lulu Merle Johnson: the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in the state.
In Cleveland, as in other cities, a move for "tree equity" is bringing more trees to low-income neighborhoods that often lack them. It also helps neighborhoods stay cooler as the planet heats up.
In a new book, The Radium Girls author Kate Moore follows the struggles of Elizabeth Packard who, locked up by her husband in 1860 for having opinions and voicing them, finds she's not the only one.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Paul Williams from the Richmond Times-Dispatch about his columns on the confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.
What a big year 1971 was. Here, we break down the 50th anniversaries of some of the biggest health initiatives, some serious industry game-changers, and more.
There is a growing discontent in the African American community with symbolic gestures that are presented as progress without any accompanying economic or structural change.
June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Many Americans will acknowledge Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last of enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas, on June 19.
President Biden signed a law Thursday making June 19 a federal holiday. Juneteenth, as the day is known, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
On June 17, 1972, a band of five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate Complex in D.C., after a failed attempt at wiretapping.
