History

The trees that George Garza planted as a new teacher in the 1960s today offer shade at the memorial to the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

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Mourning a Mexican-American tragedy, under the shade of pecan trees

10:51am June 09, 2022

by Adrian Florido

Before 19 children and two teachers were killed there, Robb Elementary School played an important role in the fight for Mexican-American equality in Uvalde, Texas. A young teacher was a catalyst.

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'Throughline': The Rise Of The Modern White Power Movement

4:58am June 09, 2022

by Rund Abdelfatah

NPR's history podcast Throughline examines the evolution of the modern white power movement, starting at the end of the Vietnam War.

Fantastic Negrito's new music explores his 18th century ancestors' forbidden love

5:30pm June 08, 2022

The new album from Fantastic Negrito, White Jesus Black Problems, tells the true story of two of his ancestors who defied the laws of colonial Virginia to be together.

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What the Jan. 6 hearings have in common with the Watergate hearings

4:59pm June 07, 2022

by Ron Elving

The upcoming hearings regarding the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol are reminiscent of another watershed political event: the 1973 Watergate hearings.

Homophobia has lingered in baseball since the days of Glenn Burke in the 1970s

4:29pm June 07, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author Andrew Maraniss about homophobia in Major League Baseball's history after some members of the Tampa Bay Rays refused to wear Pride jerseys.

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Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C., at Spoleto Festival USA.

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

12:20pm June 07, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

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World News

Class of 54 A.D.: a marble slab in storage turned out to be an ancient Greek yearbook

5:12pm June 06, 2022

An ancient Greek inscription on a marble slab has been sitting in a museum for 135 years. Researchers have learned it's a list of young men who had graduated from a military training class.

Abortion was once common practice in America. A small group of doctors changed that

4:29pm June 06, 2022

Abortion wasn't always controversial. In fact, in colonial America it would have been considered a fairly common practice. But in the mid-1800s, a small group of physicians set out to change that.

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Texas school cops get standardized active shooter training. It didn't work in Uvalde

7:29am June 06, 2022

by Martin Kaste

School police officers are trained in best practices for stopping an active shooter. The law requires it, and there's money to pay for it. And yet, that training seems to have failed in Uvalde, Texas.

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South Dakota residents reflect on one of the nation's deadliest floods

4:59am June 06, 2022

by Seth Tupper

Thursday marks 50 years since a flood killed 238 people in Rapid City, South Dakota. Survivors say it's important to tell their stories, so future generations don't repeat deadly mistakes of the past.