We Hold These Truths

Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of many schools in Duval County named after Confederate figures. Bob Self for NPR hide caption

Student journalists at the University of Georgia's newspaper, The Red & Black, saw firsthand how covering their local community was more important than ever over the last year. Taylor Gerlach/Courtesy The Red & Black hide caption

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot was just one story among many over this past year in which news language evolved to more accurately describe the event. Brent Stirton/Getty Images hide caption

NPR White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, center, is one of the many journalists who had to figure out how to combat disinformation while covering former President Trump. Ayesha Rascoe/NPR hide caption

City Council candidate Stanley Martin stands in front of an informal memorial to Daniel Prude in Rochester, N.Y. Prude was a man with mental health and drug issues who died last year after being taken into police custody. Mustafa Hussain for NPR hide caption

Robert Lee Johnson in his old neighborhood in Compton. Johnson remembers moving in one day in 1961. "I see moving vans, trucks and everything all down the street," he says. Johnson was 5 years old at the time, so he says he thought "it was moving day for everybody." And he noticed that all the other families moving in were were Black, too. Nevil Jackson for NPR hide caption