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Despite its wholesome image, Kansas City has a decades-long history of mob involvement in city affairs. In a rebroadcast, host Alex Chadwick visits Kansas City to check out the old gang scene.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts about her new podcast Into The Depths, about a team of Black divers exploring the ruins of slave ships in the ocean.

Revisions to textbooks in California incites a bitter debate in the state of California. The issue centers on the portrayal of Hinduism.

America venerates its founding fathers on Presidents' Day, even as it reckons with the fact that many of them enslaved people. NPR's Michel Martin talks to historian Kenneth C. Davis.

Historian John Hope Franklin died Wednesday at the age of 94. Franklin's work defined the field of African-American history, and he played a crucial role in pivotal civil rights events of the 20th century.

Its whereabouts aren't publicly known, though it's believed to be in storage.