TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2020. There are 97 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:

On Sept. 25, 1957, nine Black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.