A Conversation With Senator Doug Jones
The Alabama Democrat is up for reelection in 2020.
History
Author Pulls Back The Iron Curtain On The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Midnight In Chernobyl author Adam Higginbotham spent years investigating the 1986 explosion and its aftermath. He says design flaws, human hubris and Soviet secrecy all contributed to the disaster.
1A Across America: Boiling Point At The Border
About a year after President Trump said he was ending family separations at the border, questions about the treatment of migrant children and families remain.
George Takei On Why America's Past Is Present
Takei is the co-author of a forthcoming graphic novel about his experience in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Looking Back 22 Years To The Handover Of Hong Kong From Britain To China
The current protests in Hong Kong have their roots in the agreement to hand over the territory from Britain to China in 1997.
A Former Child Interned Protests Against Detention Of Migrant Children
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Chizu Omori, who was forced as a child to move to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. She's now protesting detention of immigrant children in the U.S.
A History Of School Busing
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Matt Delmont, professor of history at Dartmouth College, about the history of busing and how it affects school segregation to this date.
How The Activism Of Stonewall Transformed Into The Fight Against AIDS
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist and filmmaker David France about how Stonewall gave rise to a new kind of activism in the gay community, which helped them tackle the AIDS crisis.
Why We Remember Stonewall
The Stonewall Inn is a sacred place for many in the LGBTQ community. Fifty years ago, a raid and series of riots outside the New York City bar helped launch a civil rights movement.
Presidential Debate History: Did George Washington Participate In A Debate?
NPR's Noel King talks to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts, who answers listener questions about the history of presidential debates.