At WGBH, we’ve always embraced our role of bringing awareness to inequities that exist in our society. But the COVID-19 crisis has shown how stark those inequities are. Black and Latinx communities are hit hard by the virus, both in health and economic impact. Asian Americans are experiencing discrimination and harassment. Issues faced by communities of color too often fall outside of mainstream media. Now more than ever, media needs to represent diverse voices and tell everyone’s stories.

More than a dozen WGBH departments rallied in the days leading up to the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend to choreograph and produce a live, socially distanced, 2½-hour solo performance of the complete Bach Cello Suites by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It was streamed worldwide on YouTube, broadcast locally on 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston and on WGBH 2, and aired on more than 150 radio stations across the U.S.

To help increase public understanding of science, WGBH is using new platforms to engage audiences in science literacy in groundbreaking ways. We are creating programs and educational initiatives that bring the stories of science to life and fuel the aspirations of future scientists. And our programming from reliable and trusted sources helps viewers debunk the infodemic of misinformation, conspiracy theories and fake science. According to the World Economic Forum, accurate science communication is key in the fight against COVID-19.

Jared Bowen, host of WGBH’s "Open Studio with Jared Bowen" and Executive Arts Editor, takes us every week to sets, studios and stages across the region to showcase the arts. With those cultural institutions now closed due to the pandemic, Bowen reflects on what’s next for the arts scene and for his show.

Friends, colleagues and fellow musicians remember Ron Gill’s jazz singing as all-heart, just like his personality. Gill, a legend in the Boston jazz scene and radio host at WGBH for 20 years, died at age 85 on April 16 in Charlotte, N.C.

With the isolation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the meme of D.W., Arthur’s younger sister, looking forlorn, peering through a chain link fence, has been racing across the internet. It’s been used to capture the longing for the gym, a friend — just about anything closer than 6 feet away — as the nation struggles with the loss of normal routines. This week, the meme made it to the cover of Newsweek with the story “The Class of 2020 is all Dressed Up with Nowhere To Go,” featuring a tweaked image of D.W., wearing a graduation mortarboard and clasping a diploma in her hand.

WGBH's senior manager of member engagement discusses the many ways volunteers can donate their skills and time remotely.

WGBH President and CEO Jonathan Abbott discusses how WGBH is rethinking how we innovate during this unprecedented time while doubling down on what we know works already to connect to people and bring meaningful content into their lives when they need it the most.

A ten-day music festival featuring in-concert recorded performances by three world class organizations — Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Boston Early Music Festival — will begin airing Monday night, April 20 at 9PM, only on WCRB 99.5 Classical Radio Boston and online.

WGBH President and CEO Jonathan Abbott discusses how teachers and caregivers across America are scrambling to find ways to engage kids in learning while schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It seems as if every school, district, and state is struggling in its own way to meet this immediate demand. Parents and students — and teachers, too — are having to learn new online education platforms, assuming they have computers and the Internet. Access to opportunities is uneven, emphasizing historic gaps and exposing new ones.