Burning Man organizers don't foresee major changes in 2024 thanks to a hard-won passing grade for cleaning up this year's festival. Some feared their pledge to "leave no trace" might be too tall of a task after a rainstorm turned Nevada's high desert into a muddy quagmire, temporarily delaying the departure of some 80,000 revelers over the Labor Day holiday. Despite the successful inspection, debate continues over whether the 30-year-old gathering has grown too big. Some question whether its veered too far from its core principles of radical inclusion and participation. Executive director Marian Goodell says Burners will just keep doing what they're doing, only better.

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi and will be federally protected places. Till's family and a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites say their work protecting the Till legacy continues after the Democratic president's signing. They're raising money to restore each of the sites for inclusion in the National Park System. Before the signing, Biden said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to "find faith and purpose in pain."