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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Saladin K. Patterson about the coming-of-age comedy that gives its own compelling storyline.

Gospel star Yolanda Adams returns to the scene after a recording hiatus with her new CD, Day by Day She talks about the project and her upcoming tour.

Hundreds of people are still being plucked daily from the roofs of their homes or other buildings in New Orleans as the Coast Guard and U.S. military conduct the largest airlift operation in the nation's history. But some residents are defying calls to leave the city.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with Georgia Maq, lead singer and guitarist of Camp Cope, about the band's new album Running with the Hurricane.

Even if you don't have long COVID, it can still take weeks to recover — much longer than the isolation period implies. Millions of Americans are finding that this still majorly disrupts their lives.

The wrangling over what to do about a sprawling homeless camp in Santa Rosa, Calif., highlights how hard it is to find answers for a growing crisis across California and much of the West.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the court. For many activists, her confirmation hearings bring pride and inspiration — and resolve against conservative attacks.

There is no easy test or treatment for nontuberculosis mycobacteria. It can be transmitted through the water supply, but little is known about exactly where it lurks.

The sitcom ends Tuesday after eight seasons.

The U.S. needs to ensure everyone has an equitable chance to protect themselves, and if people don't have that opportunity, they need to be able to rely on others to be compassionate, he says.

Home health care workers are among the lowest paid, shifting the burden of long-term care to aging and overstressed family members or assisted living centers, which are often understaffed themselves.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Guerrero about her recent piece titled "For years, I Anglicized my Mexican last name. MAGA trolls inspired me to reclaim it."

Facing lost wages if they can't work, essential workers struggle to get timely COVID tests amid a nationwide testing crunch. Community clinics are struggling to meet the need.

Films such as Nanny McPhee and Mary Poppins have romanticized the nanny role, but there's no magic umbrella for the star of the reality TV show America's Supernanny. Deborah Tillman visits a home-in-crisis during each episode, helping kids and parents behave. She talks to host Michel Martin.

More than 100 former Ohio State University students have reported sexual misconduct committed by physician Dr. Richard Strauss. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ron McDaniel, a former OSU tennis player, who says Strauss molested him as a freshman.

What a testy 2005 fight between Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden can tell us about the two 2020 presidential candidates

A new look at the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex was not the only tyrannosaur roaming western North America during the late Cretaceous period.

Andrew Limbong and BA Parker from the Books We Love podcast are revisiting Terry McMillan's classic, Waiting to Exhale.

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing "substantial" reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. Court filings suggest around 4,200 affected so far.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership and Everything in Between.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with R&B musician Leon Thomas, who describes his new EP Pholks as a collaboration of polymaths inspired by multi-talented artists like Prince and Quincy Jones.

NPR's A Martinez talks with comedian Taylor Tomlinson about her new standup special on Netflix: Have it All.

The first day of Florida's legislative session is over. There's a lot to unpack.

Some libraries are now facing an existential threat: They could lose their public funding over books deemed inappropriate for young readers.

The U.S. economy counts on you to borrow money and stay in debt for a credit score. But what if you were taught to never owe anybody anything?