Robert Siegel: Looking Back at a 41-Year Career
NPR’s Robert Siegel, whose career with NPR has spanned more than four decades, will be stepping down as co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered. His last day will be Friday, January 5th. Siegel started at NPR as a newscaster in 1976. He was a senior editor in NPR’s London bureau and the director of the news and information department before he became host of All Things Considered in 1987. He has hosted the show for 30 years. WBHM’s Michael Krall recently talked with Siegel about what keeps him curious as well as his early years at NPR.
This historian dug up the hidden history of ‘amateur’ blackface in America
In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.
Attempted attack with explosives in New York City investigated as “ISIS-inspired terrorism”
New York City NYPD Commissioner: "Explosive devices that could have caused serious injury or death."
Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims
A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.
Why young girls are disguised as boys in Afghanistan
The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this patriarchal society but now appears to be happening with some frequency.
Live Nation and Justice Department reach settlement in antitrust case
The trial, which began a week ago in a New York City courtroom, aimed to break up Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster.
Microshelters for Birmingham’s unhoused set to open soon
The pilot program called Home For All involves building 14 small pallet homes to house those who would otherwise be living on the streets.
