History

The New York City Fire Department's James Gordon Bennett Medal was established in 1869 and features an image of Neptune (left) wading ashore. It will be renamed the Chief of Department Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Medal.

National

NYC Fire Department Renames Highest Award In Light Of Namesake's Racist Views

1:41pm September 10, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the FDNY was renaming the medal after Chief of Department Peter J. Ganci Jr., who was the highest-ranking member killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was an Army medic in an African American battalion who helped save scores of lives at Normandy on D-Day. On Tuesday, U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation to posthumously award him a Medal of Honor.

Senators Push For Medal Of Honor For Late Black Medic Who Saved Lives At Normandy

5:19pm September 09, 2020

by Eleanor Beardsley

Cpl. Waverly Woodson Jr., a member of an African American battalion, treated scores of soldiers wounded on D-Day but was passed over for the medal. Lawmakers and relatives have tried to change that.

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Group Of Senators Wants To Posthumously Award The Medal Of Honor To A Black Man

4:06pm September 08, 2020

by Eleanor Beardsley

A group of U.S. senators wants to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to a Black serviceman who took part in the D-Day landings in France during World War II.

People march during the nationwide protest demanding the end to the Trump administration in New York City on Saturday. Protesters have often accused President Trump of being fascist.

Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is 'Losing Its Democratic Status'

7:50pm September 06, 2020

Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.

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Peggy Bouva (left) and Maartje Duin traveled to Suriname together to visit a former sugar plantation once owned by Dutch nobility. Duin's great-great-great-grandmother held a share in the plantation, where Bouva's ancestors were enslaved. The two women do

World News

'A Journey That We Have To Join Together': 2 Dutch Women Confront Slavery's Legacy

8:01am September 06, 2020

by Joanna Kakissis

Maartje Duin and Peggy Bouva are examining painful issues in the Netherlands' colonial past. "We wanted to show people that you can talk about this openly, even if it's uncomfortable," says Bouva.

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Spectators in an otherwise empty grandstand watch the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on Sept. 4. Oaks is typically a daylong party, a kick-off to the Kentucky Derby, which runs the following day.

The 2020 Kentucky Derby 'Unlike Any Other'

7:20pm September 05, 2020

by Stephanie Wolf

The Kentucky Derby was delayed because of the pandemic, now demands are being made that Churchill Downs use this moment to make lasting changes and to take a stand against racial injustice.

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Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, here during a news conference in June, said he won't comment on the pending litigation, according to his office.

National

Oklahoma Lawsuit Seeks Reparations In Connection To 1921 Tulsa Massacre

3:20pm September 03, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

As many as 300 African American residents were slaughtered when white mobs descended on Tulsa's Greenwood district nearly a century ago. The lead plaintiff is a 105-year-old survivor of the massacre.

Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto around 1940. Food was in short supply.

Health & Safety

The Warsaw Ghetto Can Teach The World How To Beat Back An Outbreak

10:22pm September 02, 2020

by Fran Kritz

A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some — including survivors alive today — say frame of mind was key.

Books
Arts

'The Quiet Americans' Examines Tragic Miscalculations In The CIA's Formative Years

2:44pm September 01, 2020

by Dave Davies

In a new book, author Scott Anderson chronicles the formative years of America's spy agency by focusing on four soldiers who became intelligence agents after World War II.

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Arts

Park Avenue Armory Honors Women's Suffrage In New Show

5:33pm August 30, 2020

by Rose Friedman

"100 Years 100 Women" is the title of a new show at the Park Avenue Armory. The artists in it all created new pieces to mark the centennial of the 19th amendment.

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