340K views · 8.1K reactions | The confirmation of Lloyd Austin as the first black secretary of Defense is a milestone. Nick Schifrin reports on how it also spotlights racial disparities at the highest level of the military ranks. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

445K views · 2.3K reactions | "What does belonging mean?" asks novelist Akhil Sharma in this essay. "It means feeling safe, it means feeling accepted. It has nothing to do with what country you were born in, or your parents were born in." #IMHO | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

11K views · 132 reactions | Four decades ago, the first-ever cases of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were publicly noted — and hardly noticed. By the end of 1981, the CDC counted 270 confirmed cases of “severe immune deficiency,” the disease that later became known as AIDS. @JudyWoodruff and @WmBrangham report. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

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17K views · 98 reactions | The presidential race struck a somber note today, on the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. But how were the Democratic and Republican candidates different? PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor and Daniel Bush report. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook