History

Miriam Colvin's podcast "Competition With The Best" was one of two grand prize winners in the college edition of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

Education

Family Lore Fact-Check: Finding The Teen Muhammad Ali 'Boxed Along The Way'

7:00am April 23, 2021

For years, Miriam Colvin's grandfather told the story of a boxing match between a young Indiana farm boy and a 14-year-old kid from Kentucky — named Cassius Clay. But was the story true?

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NPR Podcast 'Throughline' Examines The Real Black Panthers

6:14am April 23, 2021

The movie Judas and the Black Messiah, about Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, is up for six Oscars on Sunday. The NPR podcast Throughline looks into the history of the Black Panther Party.

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World News

Archaeologists Discover Earliest Example Of Dog Domestication In Arabia

4:07pm April 22, 2021

Archaeologists have discovered remains of the earliest example of dog domestication on the Arabian Peninsula, providing a look into pet ownership 6,000 years ago.

World News

Why Navalny's Attempt To Dismantle Putin's Regime Feels Out Of Reach

6:25am April 22, 2021

NPR's Noel King speaks with journalist Marvin Kalb about how Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fits into the history of political opposition in the Soviet Union, and later, Russia.

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Competition With The Greatest: Podcast Winner Fact-Checked Family Lore

6:32pm April 21, 2021

by Elissa Nadworny

Every family has that story it tells a million times. For NPR's student Podcast Challenge winner Miriam Colvin, that story is of a family friend boxing against an unknown up-and-comer: Cassius Clay.

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Location Of Harriet Tubman's Home Discovered

4:43pm April 21, 2021

Archaeologists have finally uncovered the location of Harriet Tubman's house, where she spent her formative teenage years before she escaped enslavement. Their clue was a Lady Liberty coin dated 1808.

We Are Bridges: A Memoir, by Cassandra Lane

Books
Arts

In 'We Are Bridges,' A Writer Resurrects Her Great Grandfather's Memory

10:38am April 21, 2021

by Martha Anne Toll

In 1904, Cassandra Lane's great grandfather Burt Bridges was lynched. In telling his story, Lane offers her own memoir — and lessons on family and American history for her future child and readers.

UVA Initiative Looks At Our Relationship With Statues And Memorials

7:59am April 17, 2021

UVA has launched The Memory Project, an initiative to explore politics and inclusion in how public spaces are used to commemorate the past. NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with director Jalane Schmidt.

National

Virginia Faces Complicated Debate Over Two Confederate Monuments

7:36am April 16, 2021

by Sam Turken

In Virginia, there's a debate underway about what to do with buildings, monuments and roads named after two Confederate generals — because of their support of Black people after the Civil War.

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Books

How A Humble Bookseller Helped Give Rise To The Renaissance

12:43am April 15, 2021

Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Ross King about his new book The Bookseller of Florence, inspired by the history of the "Street of Booksellers" found in Florence, Italy.

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