NPR's Audie Cornish talks with David Aldridge of The Athletic about pro athletes refusing to play after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.
In 2016, as an upstart outsider, Donald Trump vowed, "I alone can fix it." On Thursday night, he gives his sequel after twin crises of the coronavirus and racial injustice have exploded on his watch.
The ongoing protests over racial and economic injustices mirror concerns voiced 57 years ago at the historic March on Washington. Four Chicagoans reflect on events and their significance then and now.
The murder of Emmett Till 65 years ago this week became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Radio Diaries tells a lesser-known story of a Black man killed in a nearby town three months later.
The shootings of the three protesters appeared to change the tenor of demonstrations on Wednesday night. The protests had turned violent a night earlier when a gunman killed two people.
The arrest of the 17-year-old comes as new details become available in the probe of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. There are multiple investigations into the wounding of the Black man.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jesse Washington of ESPN's The Undefeated about NBA players refusing to play in playoff games as a protest to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha.