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  • Poet Louise Glück received the the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2016. On Wednesday, Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To U.S. Poet Louise Glück
    The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to U.S. poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
  • Poet Louise Glück in 2016 receiving the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. Wednesday, Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To U.S. Poet Louise Glück
    The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to U.S. poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
  • LeVar Burton, shown here speaking in Los Angeles in 2016, has said he feels like hosting Jeopardy! "is what I'm supposed to do." This week, he gets his turn at the host lectern left vacant by Alex Trebek, who died last year at age 80.
    LeVar Burton Is A Top Pick To Host 'Jeopardy!' You Don't Have To Take Our Word For It
    Credited by a generation of book nerds for shaping their identities on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton guest-hosts Jeopardy! this week after a campaign hyped by his large and enthusiastic fandom.
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their gene editing technique. Here, they are honored at the Breakthrough Prize award ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in California in 2014.
    2 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Genome Editing Research
    The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded for research into "rewriting the code of life." Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. are the laureates.
  • Robert "Bob" Moses, who was an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) questions about Freedom Summer in 1964, during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian in Jackson, Miss.
    Civil Rights Activist Bob Moses Dies At 86
    Moses was a civil rights crusader and educator who led Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s.
  • The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists for their work on black holes. This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of Earth's sun.
    3 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physics For Discoveries Related To Black Holes
    The prize goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Ghez says she hopes it will inspire young people, and particularly women, to pursue careers in science.
  • A Nobel Prize gold medal seen during the manufacturing process in the Swedish Mint. The medals, presented to each laureate, are made of 18 karat recycled gold and weigh 175 grams (6.13 ounces). The Economics medal weighs 185 grams (6.48 ounces).
    3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Hepatitis C Virus Discovery
    The scientists' work led to a test to protect blood transfusion recipients from hepatitis C and drugs to treat the infection that have saved millions of lives, according to the Nobel Assembly.
  • From left: Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer and Joanne Lee are teen leaders for the U.N.-sponsored gender equality group Girl Up. They attended Girl Up's virtual conference last week, which featured Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as a guest speaker.
    Teen Girl Leaders In A Pandemic: Fight For What's Right, Then Groove To BTS
    Four attendees of the Girl Up Leadership Summit share how they balance their passion for social justice issues with self-care: tuning out the news, going for a walk and binging Harry Potter.
  • A still from Hugo Crosthwaite's stop-motion animation for a new music video for The Color Forty Nine. The single, "What Would I know? / ¿Yo Que Sé?" will release on July 23, 2021.
    Hugo Crosthwaite: A Life In (Stop) Motion
    The 2021 San Diego Art Prize recipient tells stories of border life using stop-motion animation and black and white drawings — plus a new music video with The Color Forty Nine.
  • Bonus Podcast: Revisiting The Black Panthers
    David F. Walker, author of the upcoming "The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel," talks more about the research he's done for his book and I have my full interview with a member of the San Diego Original Black Panther Party, Henry Lee Wallace V. So I stray off the film path for this bonus or perhaps it's better titled a companion podcast to Black Films That Matter. Walker talks about the Black Panthers and their legacy while Wallace recounts how he joined the party as a teenager and now serves as chairman of the reactivated San Diego Black Panther Party. A little history rather than cinema for a change of pace. Check out the companion Black Films that Matter Podcast: https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/cinema-junkie/2020/jul/03/black-films-matter/
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