History

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith.

Next time you’re in Kansas City, stop by the Negro Baseball League Museum, right there on 18th and Vine, a historic little neighborhood where once upon a time jumpin’ clubs up and down the street wrung out late-night blues like nowhere else. There’s a jazz museum right next door, too. Don’t know jazz all that well? A few hours in that interactive place, and you’ll come away knowing much more than you dreamed to know or hear.

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends God Save the Queens by Kathy Iandoli.

Their land taken, their people persecuted, three young boys, hungry and desperate, do something terrible, and the consequences echo through history. What we must remember is often what we want to forget.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist and professor DeNeen Brown about her new project, Printing Hate.

November 1 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth Stephen Crane, author of "The Red Badge of Courage." A new biography seeks to place him among America's most celebrated writers.

Pat Maginnis was out in front of the fight to legalize abortion in the 1960s, but few know her name and the lengths she went to.

President Biden's meeting with the pope is a fairly recent tradition for U.S. presidents. His meeting will mark the 31st time a U.S. president has met with the leader of the Catholic Church.

Marvin Weeks memorialized Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was killed in Georgia last year, in a mural. Weeks' latest work delves into the history of race relations in Brunswick, Ga.

Despite a threat from Alabama's attorney general, Jefferson Davis Avenue in Montgomery will be no more. The street once named for the Confederate figure will now honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray.