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The Emmy and Tony award-winning actor talks about growing up gay in Tennessee, losing theater friends during the AIDS epidemic and playing the head of a family-owned media group on Succession.

News brief from Monday morning, August 31, 2020

After police shot Jacob Blake, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called state lawmakers to the Capitol to try to push police reform, but the GOP says it needs more time to decide next steps.

Portland's mayor blames President Trump for the city's deadly violence. Wisconsin state lawmakers to meet for special session on police reform. And, protests are an issue in the presidential race.

NPR's Debbie Elliot asks Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mayor Donnie Tuck of Hampton, Va., and Mayor Bruce Teague of Iowa City, Iowa, how they're trying to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

President Trump is scheduled to visit the Wisconsin city this week to survey damage from recent protests. Mayor John Antaramian says it would be better for him to wait "for another time to come."

The president first stopped in Lake Charles, La., before heading to Orange, Texas. In both stops, he met with local public officials to talk about the devastation from Hurricane Laura.

Actor Chadwick Boseman, who starred in Black Panther and many other films, has died at the age of 43.

Whatever the validity of Trump's claims about the past, current reality for millions of the unemployed is dire. With the virus still far from controlled, the economic climb could get steeper as well.

Florida's governor wants the traveling public to start traveling again. He wants the public to know that air travel is safe during the coronavirus pandemic and hopes tourists will soon return.