Jackson Sinnenberg

1 month ago | wamu.org | Jackson Sinnenberg |Natalie Yuravlivker

Sixty-five summers ago, the children of union organizers in Bannockburn and Holocaust survivors in Montgomery County spent their day alongside Black students from Howard University, sweating in the summer heat and humidity to protest the “white’s only” policy at Glen Echo Amusement Park. It was one of the first integrated protests of the Civil Rights Movement.

1 month ago | wamu.org | Jackson Sinnenberg |Natalie Yuravlivker

Two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a young diplomats’ reception at the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday night. They had been attending an event for young professionals that was being hosted at the museum, which sits just blocks from Congress. “We are horrified by the shooting this evening that occurred outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, D.C. wrote in a statement shared on their social media channels.

1 month ago | wamu.org | Jackson Sinnenberg |Esther Ciammachilli

Here’s a sneak peek at a couple of the stories WAMU will be highlighting in the days ahead:On Tuesday, the Virginia House of Delegates’ Emergency Committee on the Impacts of Federal Workforce and Funding Reductions will hold a hearing in Alexandria to discuss the latest in cuts to federal spending. “While we don’t have a rundown yet, there’s one key item we know is giving lawmakers plenty of aggravation,” says WAMU Morning Edition producer Jackson Sinnenberg.

1 month ago | wamu.org | Jackson Sinnenberg |Tyrone Turner

The Cathedral of St. Matthew was quiet but bustling with energy only an hour after Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced to the world as Pope Leo XIV. Cathedral workers were busy putting up a new bunting – the colored banner that hangs above the cathedral’s main doors – to celebrate the announcement that still rang across the globe: “Habemus Papam”….we have a pope. Rev. Msgr.

1 month ago | wamu.org | Tamika Smith |Jackson Sinnenberg

D.C. jazz bassist Ben Williams digs into his family history of activism and religion on his fourth studio album, Between Church & State, which came out Friday, May 2. Williams was already known as one of the best young bassists in jazz – or “Black American Music” as his collaborator Nicholas Payton calls it – when he released his album I Am A Man in 2020. The album is based on Williams’ introspection about social justice and the human experience during the latter half of the last decade.