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A new women's team is aiming to make history at this year's Indianapolis 500 with a woman owner, driver and crew members. In more than 100 years, only nine women drivers have competed.

A Kansas City area school district, named after a Native American tribe itself, is retiring some Native American mascots, deeming them derogatory or offensive.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author and medical ethicist Harriet A. Washington about Britney Spears' recent statement on her reproductive rights and the history of contraceptive control.

Fifty-two years ago, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York which catered to LGBTQ customers. COVID-19 almost closed the bar, but during Pride Month, people have been celebrating there.

Egypt's first freely elected president made history Sunday when he ousted top military chiefs. Mohammed Morsi had been hesitant to confront the country's top brass, who've long been suspicious of the Islamist leader. But in one fell swoop, Morsi shifted the balance of power, ordered top generals into retirement and asserted civilian authority over the military leadership.

"We're not being revisionist. We're not waging a war on history," council member Inez Barron said. "We're saying that we want to make sure that the total story is told."

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Ada Ferrer, professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University, about the significance of the anti-government protests in Cuba.

"I'm feeling very happy and I keep trying not to cry, but it keeps happening," Tamyra Mensah-Stock said after her historic win in Tokyo.

For many Americans, this week's attack was shocking. But for the millions of Americans born in countries with a history of political instability, the event has carried a different resonance.

That lighted, flashing floor where John Travolta strutted his stuff in the movie Saturday Night Fever is now the subject of a lawsuit almost as hot as the Bee Gees. Two businessmen are tangling over who owns this piece of disco history.