Austin Horn
Austin Horn is a 2019-2020 Kroc Fellow. He joined NPR after internships at the San Antonio Express-News and Frankfort State-Journal, as well as a couple stints in the service industry. He aims to keep his reporting grounded in the experience of real individuals of all stripes.
He graduated from Columbia University in 2019 with a degree in American Studies. You can find him tweeting about basketball, music or his home state of Kentucky at .
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Kimmel had previously used blackface in impressions of Black celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Karl Malone in The Man Show, a Comedy Central series in which he co-starred.
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Djokovic, the world's No. 1-ranked men's tennis player, has previously voiced concerns about the possibility of restrictions at future tennis events due to the coronavirus. -
Arnold Schwarzenegger, three other former governors of the Golden State, and current Gov. Gavin Newsom stressed the importance of face coverings in curbing the spread of the coronavirus. -
The company says it's the first U.S. airline to do so since February after flights were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The flights will run from Seattle to Shanghai via Seoul, South Korea. -
"The world is in a new and dangerous phase," WHO's director-general says. "Many people are understandably fed up with being at home ... but the virus is still spreading fast." -
Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. Now, New York City will officially observe Juneteenth as an official city and school holiday starting next year. -
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that while the spread of the coronavirus is still a major threat during the summer months, that period of time does not pose the added threat of the flu season. -
The event will begin on Aug. 31 without fans because of the continued spread of the coronavirus. Australian tennis star Nicholas Kyrgios calls the move "selfish." -
The logo had included curves on the handles of sabres meant to mimic the design of serpentine walls on campus. Those walls were originally built to hide enslaved people from public view.
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The channel, One America News Network, has a history of supporting President Trump and of spreading misinformation that favors the political right.
