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Brit Bennett's new novel centers on two light-skinned African American sisters — one of whom "passes" for white. The Vanishing Half is compelling — if somewhat melodramatic.

Closed captioning can be difficult to follow in real-time because it can be incorrect or incomplete and lacks any indication of tone.

This week on NewsNight, the panel, including WMFE reporter Brendan Byrne, looks at the latest on NASA’s Commercial Crew program as human launches return to the Space Coast. As schools break for the summer, the state’s university system is preparing for a phased return to campus. We’ll discuss how remote learning has changed education in Florida. Plus, all the latest on COVID-19.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, NASA has relied solely on the Russian space agency to send astronauts into orbit. That reliance ends as SpaceX launches humans from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade. RETURN TO FLIGHT is a special presentation from WMFE that aired ahead of that historic mission.

Your coronavirus update for 6/01.

How do you share your car, home or clothing with other people during a pandemic? Companies from Airbnb to Rent the Runway face big challenges convincing customers their services are safe.

President Trump called Floyd's death a "grave tragedy" that "should never have happened." But once he was back on Twitter, he again inflamed tensions, with machismo and politics at the forefront.

In Minneapolis, where Floyd died, a semitractor-trailer drove into a crowd of peaceful protesters marching on an interstate. Elsewhere, there were reports of police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season starts today, and federal scientists expect storms to be more frequent and powerful. Two named storms already formed in the Atlantic this spring before the official start of the season. As Florida and other coastal states plan for hurricanes, they are confronting troubling new public safety calculations because of the novel coronavirus.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Reverend Jim Wallis about the National Day of Mourning and Lament put on by faith leaders across the country to commemorate those who have died from the coronavirus.