History

When Angela Settles' husband, Darius, got sick with COVID-19, he was worried about medical bills. He worked two jobs but had no health insurance.

Hospital Bills For Uninsured COVID-19 Patients Are Covered, But No One Tells Them

1:10pm October 22, 2020

by Blake Farmer

The CARES Act provides funds to pay medical bills for uninsured COVID-19 patients. But a young man's death in Nashville, Tenn., shows people often don't know about the program until it's too late.

The formerly missing panel is titled, There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. --Washington, 26 December 1786, Panel 16, 1956.

Arts

Lost Painting By Modernist Master Jacob Lawrence Found In Private Collection

10:56am October 22, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York — where Lawrence's series, Struggle, is currently on view — helped identify a missing painting by the Modernist master.

Increased car and foot traffic coupled with rising sea levels have driven parts of the Tidal Basin area underwater.

Landscape Architects Unveil Plans To Save The National Mall's Tidal Basin

4:35pm October 21, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

With increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath the Tidal Basin — home to memorials to Thomas Jefferson, FDR and MLK Jr. — is sinking. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily.

Kevin Young was recently named as the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He starts in January.

Arts

Poet Kevin Young Says Thinking About Black Culture, Like Writing Poetry, Is A Calling

3:32pm October 20, 2020

by Rachel Martin

Young will take over as the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in January. He tells NPR, "We're in this really exciting Black renaissance."

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Books
Arts

John Brown And Abraham Lincoln: Divergent Paths In The Fight To End Slavery

1:43pm October 19, 2020

by Dave Davies

In The Zealot and the Emancipator, historian H.W. Brands reflects on two 19th century leaders who fought the institution of slavery in different ways: one radical and the other reformist.

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Thomas poses for a portrait at the African American Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont. Thomas restored the graveyard and then used it to bury her teenage son when he drowned in June.

National

A Pastor Rescues A Cemetery For Enslaved People, Then Buries Her Son In It

7:11am October 19, 2020

by Daniella Cheslow

After her teenaged son drowned, Pastor Michelle Thomas decided to bury him in a old burial ground she had come across earlier while searching for a new site for her church.

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Bernard Cohen in a 1970s campaign poster when he ran for the Virginia House of Delegates. As a lawyer he successfully argued the Supreme Court case that established the legality of interracial marriage. He died this week at age 86.

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Bernard Cohen, Lawyer Who Argued Loving V. Virginia Case, Dies At 86

7:20pm October 16, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

Cohen was just a few years out of law school when the ACLU asked if he would take on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving — an interracial couple whose marriage was illegal in their home state.

National

Fossilized Human Trackway Discovered At White Sands National Park

4:59pm October 16, 2020

The longest fossilized human trackway has been discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Details of this discovery will be informing history for generations, archaeologists say.

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National

A Professor On Why It Is Important To Highlight Roles Of Native Americans In History

6:32pm October 12, 2020

by Carrie Jung

A growing number of history and civics educators are trying to highlight the roles of Native Americans in U.S. history. For one professor in Massachusetts, that effort is personal.

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National

What Did Chicano Moratorium Of 1970 Mean For Chicano Activists?

4:11pm October 09, 2020

by Andrea Gutierrez

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium — a day when Mexican Americans in Los Angeles marched to protest the Vietnam War. It influenced a generation of Chicano activists.