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Jabs for animals: Your pet may not get a COVID-19 vaccine, but zoo animals across the U.S., in contact with workers and visitors, are getting vaccinated, Natasha Daly reports. A veterinarian pharmaceutical company has donated some 11,000 doses of the animal vaccine to more than 80 institutions in 27 states for free.
Properly honored: Born in St. Louis, beginning as a dancer, Josephine Baker came to epitomize the liveliness of Paris. Belatedly, she will be laid to rest alongside France’s greatest, such as Victor Hugo, Marie Curie, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the New York Times reports.
Tupac’s rebellion: It was a brief, doomed, but deeply influential insurgency high in the Andes. Indigenous leader Tupac Amaru II’s 1780 battle against Spanish colonizers in the mountain community of Sangarará was the first salvo in what would lead, decades later, to Peru’s independence, the BBC reports.
The enduring Harlem Culture Festival: The amazing 1969 summer concert series that you probably never heard of still reverberates today, Nat Geo’s Tucker C. Toole reports. The series, dubbed the Black Woodstock, featured Stevie Wonder, Mavis Staples, Nina Simone, Count Basie, Gladys Knight, and Sly Stone. Long-unseen footage was gathered and edited for the documentary Summer of Soul by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson.
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