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Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. A spate of books and documentaries are marking the moment; we round up three to watch this weekend.

The two space probes will study Venus, a scorching hot world that may have once been like Earth. NASA chose the Venus missions over other candidates, such as trips to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.

Researchers continue their efforts to help the Apalachicola Bay’s oyster industry recover. Now a team from Florida State University is experimenting with different materials to see which is best for repopulating oyster habitats.

A Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal early last year became a deadly COVID-19 superspreader event. Now, the group is figuring out how to come back together and reforge the bonds of a community choir.

It will be the longest season since the FWC began managing red snapper.

A bankruptcy judge cleared a plan for final vote by creditors of Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, that would release the Sacklers and their financial empire from liability for the opioid crisis.

Freestyle rapper Harry Mack has been entertaining random strangers online with freestyle raps. To celebrate his rising success on YouTube, he plans to do a 10-hour freestyle livestream.

The banquet hall had been rented out for a concert and authorities believe the shooting was targeted.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Stephen Gutowski founder of The Reload, a publication on America's firearms policy and politics about the influence of the gun rights movement.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Toronto Raptor's superfan Nav Bhatia. He hasn't missed a Toronto Raptor game since the basketball team was founded in 1995.

The class of 2021 has had a strange senior year. Three teens, Gerald Burton, Emily McNichol, and Kimberly Rochin, talk about the weirdness and what they actually learned about life and themselves.

For more than five years, a disease has been wiping out corals that provide the foundation for Florida's reef tract. Now it's reached the most remote and healthy area of the reef.

Environmentalists applauded tightening rules and improving monitoring. But they say omitting one type of waste leaves a hole in the data.

A spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign says the organization plans to challenge the law that would force transgender women and girls to play on male sports teams.

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

Ahead of the auction, the seller of the copy of the 2007 viral video said the original would leave YouTube so it could be "memorialized" on the blockchain. Now, the buyer wants the clip to stay up.

Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many sandstorms this spring. Herders have lost their herds — an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with ER physician and Brown University researcher Megan Ranney about the continuing public health problem of gun violence.

At Gov. Ron DeSantis' direction, AHCA files a friend-of-the-court brief siding with the federal government in a lawsuit filed by a pharmaceutical industry group.

More than 12,000 American Legion posts closed for at least part of the pandemic. Those closures left some posts in financial trouble.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about a nationwide pandemic-era increase in Black-owned small businesses.

The Cargo Dragon capsule is carrying dozens of new science experiments to help researchers understand the biological challenges of spaceflight.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Erika Richter of the American Society of Travel Advisors about the increase in travel this summer.

Last year a Black-owned Texas brewery asked the craft industry to take their beer, Black is Beautiful, and use the proceeds to support equality, inclusion and social justice reform. It worked.