Race

Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will get a new name sometime after the 2021 season. It follows the NFL's Washington Football Team in abandoning a name and imagery widely seen as racist or culturally offensive.

Cleveland Baseball Team Will Drop Controversial Name To 'Unify Our Community'

2:54pm December 14, 2020

by Jaclyn Diaz

The franchise is the second major sports team to abandon a longtime name widely seen as racist or culturally offensive. The NFL's Washington Football Team was the first to do so.

National

Tall Grass Food Box Project Helps Black Farmers Struggling During The Pandemic

7:59am December 12, 2020

Gabrielle Carter, Derrick Beasley, and Gerald Harris of Durham, N.C. started a project to help Black farmers during the pandemic: food subscription boxes. They share how it's been working out.

Music & Culture

Redemption And Connection: Lara Downes Talks With Davóne Tines

5:00am December 12, 2020

by Lara Downes

In conversation and in song, the opera singer and the pianist discover healing in a traumatized space.

A map of Texas is displayed on a parking spot at the Old Glory Memorial in El Paso, Texas, last year.

National

Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have 'Negro' In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It?

5:57pm December 11, 2020

by Reese Oxner

Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed.

Republican Sen. Mike Lee, seen at a 2015 event, said the Smithsonian doesn't need "an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups."

Sen. Mike Lee Blocks Legislation For Latino, Women's Museums

5:18pm December 11, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

In a move that infuriated supporters of museums to be dedicated to Latinos and women on the National Mall, the Republican senator blocked legislation Thursday that would lead to the creation of both.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is the city's first Black Circuit Court attorney. On Thursday a circuit judge disqualified her and her staff from prosecuting the case against Mark McCloskey.

National

St. Louis Prosecutor Taken Off Case Of Couple Who Brandished Guns At BLM Protesters

8:40am December 11, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

A judge in St. Louis rules that in sending fundraising emails seeking reelection, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner jeopardized Mark McCloskey's right to a fair trial.

A swastika sticker on a statue at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise. The vandalism took place sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Boise police said.

Idaho Anne Frank Memorial Defaced With Nazi Propaganda

7:39pm December 10, 2020

by Dustin Jones

Nine stickers with swastikas were placed on the memorial in downtown Boise sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. One of the stickers read, "We are everywhere."

Many Hispanic And Black People Say They Are Skeptical About COVID-19 Vaccine

4:00pm December 10, 2020

by Adrian Florido

Latinos and African Americans are among those most likely to express skepticism about the coronavirus vaccine. Efforts are underway to change their minds.

Queue Listen Now

The founder of Johns Hopkins University was discovered to be a slaveowner in contradiction to the long-held narrative that the philanthropist was an abolitionist.

Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says

10:01am December 10, 2020

by Jaclyn Diaz

Researchers found census records showing the entrepreneur and philanthropist owned slaves as late as 1850, contrary to the long-held belief that his family freed all slaves when he was a boy.

Michael Hari was found guilty on Wednesday of being the mastermind behind an attack on a Minnesota mosque.

National

Militia Group Leader Guilty Of Minnesota Mosque Pipe Bomb Attack

11:39pm December 09, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

Following the conviction, prosecutors said Michael Hari's goal in bombing the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in 2017 "was to spread hatred" and "instill fear" in the community.